Which Chemistry/Health Class is Most Important For Pre-Med/Med Student?

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I think I know the answer to this, but I want to make sure. Which of the following Chemistries are most important as a pre-med or med student?

Bionuclear Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Infectious Disease

I ask this because my school requires 1 semester of financial litteracy, which leaves me one more semester to fill a class with, and no classes are one semester with honors/ap weightage in my school. I am trying to take honors/ap weightage because my school only uses weighted GPA for transcripts, so taking CP classes will pull my GPA down (or else I would take all three classes).

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I would say organic or infectious disease. Most likely orgo because you’ll have to take this again in a year or two in college as a pre med req’d class. You won’t be expected to know (or really benefit from) knowing materials on infectious disease until medical school at which point you will have most likely forgotten all of the information and it will not be to the caliber you need in Med School anyway. Just my 2 cents. Which class were you thinking?

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@55al00m I was thinking Orgo too, just because of how popular and important it is for undergrad as premed. Thanks!

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Organic would be best because this is typically a pre-med weed out class, so having some background will help you in college

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High School Organic is like a tiny taste of what you’ll have to do, and it’ll be a few semesters later, so not sure it’ll be useful. (It’s like comparing that slow-paced middle school bio class to AP bio, for instance - there’s that much distance).
So, it’ll give you an idea but it won’t really “help” with orgo in college.
Bionuclear would help with chemistry. Chemistry’s very important too.
Pick either one.

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@cpresson1 @MYOS1634 Thanks, I will take your points into consideration when making a decision