Which classes do you think would be most beneficial?

hobbithopeful
Tue, 18 Mar 2014 03:38:16 +0000

“because A & P and Genetics aren’t AP classes, so they would not help me out in college.”

Don’t have that mentality about classes, many AP classes are utterly useless compared to their college counterparts (e.g. AP Physics B).

If you truly want to be a doctor, exposure to A & P would probably be your best best. My school has a rigorous A & P curriculum that exposes you to many aspects of the college course. I’m not quite sure the depth of a high school genetics class, but if you feel it would give you the basis for college genetics classes take it. If it’s just going to be a few punnet squares and vocab, don’t.

In your situation, I would take AP Physics (something that’s not B), A & P, and APES. If your school doesn’t offer Physics C I would take AP Computer Science or AP Psych (depending on if computer science interests you at all).

Just kind of a side note. If you truly want to be a biomedical engineer into a neurologist, know that it that is extremely difficult (you can do it if you really try) but your GPA would probably suffer. As you probably know, Med schools don’t care at all what your undergrad major is as long as your GPA is high. 4.0 English/Finance Major beats out 3.4 BME major every time. However, if you insist on doing this… make sure you have some exposure to physics (regardless of which class is offered).

All in all, all of those choices are good options for your end goal. I would take 2 AP and 1 regular. You can’t really go wrong with any of those AP courses, and I honestly feel like A & P would be the most important course to take out of all of those.

BME: AP Physics, AP Computer Science, A & P
Science Major: AP Physics, AP Psych/APES, A & P
Non-Science Major: AP Computer Science, AP Psych, A & P