Will not taking chemistry in high school hinder my application process?

SnowflakeVT
Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:40:30 +0000

I strongly second the notion that you need at least 1-2 years of chemistry to be considered as a strong candidate for a pre-med curriculum in college. If you look at requirements for many Colleges of Arts and Sciences within large universities you will see that they always list 3-4 year of sciences with labs, and one of those should be chem or physics. As a pre-med candidate, chemistry would be a much higher priority than a 3rd year of biology. You have to show them that you have been exposed to the pre-requisites of organic chemistry, a pre-med weed out standard full-year series of courses, so that you prove you know what you’re getting yourself into in pre-med college courses.