How to Select Undergraduate Premed Coursework

It would appear that the apparatchiks of the higher education machine want to extract their pound of flesh from aspiring medical doctors by hook or by crook. So much for saving time and money with placement examinations and dual enrollment courses. I pity any medical school applicants who learn only at the end of their undergraduate courses of study that "many medical schools are not so generous" with these ways of earning college credit for core classes. Pardon my cynicism, but the argument that "medical schools want to know that you can handle advanced college-level work after your first year" sounds like a lame excuse to force freshmen to re-take courses for which they already earned credit in high school. Perhaps I am being too harsh if medical schools look favorably upon majors like biology, chemistry, and engineering and accept that higher level courses in those majors satisfy their requirements even if the foundation class credits make their way to transcripts via AP or dual enrollment. Please clarify as this argument has profound impacts on many aspiring medical school students and how they plan to achieve their goals.

Luther Setzer of FL 11:05AM February 28, 2012