Should I be retaking AP credits?

ucbalumnus
Thu, 21 Jun 2012 01:27:07 +0000

Some medical schools require calculus and/or statistics while others do not. Some which require calculus do accept AP credit for it while others do not (but they should accept a more advanced math course if you skip calculus 1). You have to check each medical school or the MSAR.

For most pre-med purposes, if you skip something with AP credit, you need to take a more advanced course in that subject in substitution for the skipped course. Ask your college’s pre-med advising and the pre-med forum for more details.

If you are considering skipping something with AP credit to take a more advanced course in that subject, check to see if old final exams for the course you may skip are available (try the search function on the college’s web site). Use the old final exams to check your knowledge of the subject matter from the college’s point of view.

Note that a lot of pre-med and other students repeat their AP credit, so the curves in those freshman level courses may not necessarily yield “easy A” grades just because you have seen the material before.