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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Curious what norm is on skipping Bio 1/2 or Chem is? Do students use AP credit to bypass and then take higher level bio classes instead for pre-reqs? Any clue what norm is at your particular school?

The commonly held advice is to take intro classes for easy A to preserve gpa. This is not norm at my kid’s school and curious what is at others. [/quote]

So your kid is in college already?
 Why care then??[/quote]

I’m asking because I’m in a Pre-med group and this question pops up constantly and everyone says repeat. The schools attended aren’t shared. I know what our school says, I just find it hard to believe this isn’t majority at the other schools too. The group isn’t an anonymous place and don’t want to offend anyone by asking there and sounding like I think it’s a bad choice to repeat as I don’t. Just curious what norm is at other top schools.[/quote]

Two kids two different ivies, one premed the other is an engineer who takes a lot of classes with premeds (chemE/molecularE). Your kid should look at the ivy's premed advising pages and should be able to get the internal data with their student id. Mine have shown me the internal data, and one parents weekend we went to a premed parent talk and they showed it. The median gpa at non-engineers ivy is 3.8. Students with 3.8+ have a 93% acceptance rate to at least one US med school. Students with 3.4+ have an 85% rate. 3.4ish is the bottom 25% at this ivy.They warn students not to take the easy route because most students do not and it will look off(ie no taking intro stem at other colleges in the summer unless it is another ivy-level). They do help students spread out the classes and plan for 1-2 gaps if the first year gpa comes in lower, and they offer most intros as well as orgo as summer classes there, taught by same profs with same rigor so not seen as a negative. Lots stay and do research or clinicals in the summer anyway. 
My other kid is not premed but their ivy has similar excellent MD acceptance rates. Our FB parent page gets a lot of premed Qs and the older parents who have BTDT always warn not to listen to premed advice from people not at the school because it is not applicable to the way the ivy recommends or the outcomes the ivy gets. Even mcat studying recs on these big sites recommending 6-12 months or a whole gap year to study: no one studies more than a month or two often during junior year or summer after, and the median mcat is 517-518 (at these ivies but T10 non ivies are all similar)
The most common med schools these kids get into are ivy/ucsf/washu/hopkins/duke levels. Trust the ivy/T10 education you are paying for. It is well worth it. [/quote]

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