Medical School?

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Many schools give 8 semester hours credit for good scores (i.e., possibly above the minimums) on either AP or CLEP biology and chemistry tests. The 8 semester hours number comes from the fact that at a brick and mortar school, those courses are taken over two semesters. Here is what is required by medical schools:

first semester inorganic chemistry for science majors (3 hours lecture, 1 hour laboratory)
second semester inorganic chemistry for science majors (3 hours lecture, 1 hour laboratory)
first semester organic chemistry (3 hours lecture, 1 hour laboratory)
second semester organic chemistry (3 hours lecture, 1 hour laboratory)
first semester general biology for science majors (3 hours lecture, 1 hour laboratory)
second semester general biology for science majors (3 hours lecture, 1 hour laboratory)
additional biology (3 hours lecture, 1 hour laboratory)
additional biology (3 hours lecture, may or may not have a 1 hour laboratory)
first semester physics for science majors (3 hours lecture, 1 hour laboratory)
second semester physics for science majors (3 hours lecture, 1 hour laboratory)
maybe biochemistry
other things possibly, such as microbiology for science majors (3 hours lecture, 1 hour laboratory) - not the microbiology for nursing students

Medical schools do not want to see credit for labs as 8 hours of CLEP credit may provide you. Medical schools want to see that you actually took the labs. Without the labs, you're not going. Period. That's reality. Some people win the powerball lottery. That's also reality. Which reality is more relevant to you? People actually learn valuable things from taking the lab courses and doing the experiments. No CLEP, no online - show up and hold your nose when it smells (there are bad smells at times in microbiology, inorganic, and organic chemistry labs). If you haven't taken microbiology lab for science majors, I seriously question your readiness for medical school. If you haven't actually identified unknown biological samples in a lab, you don't really get microbiology. If you don't get microbiology, how are you going to treat diseases?

A medical school will probably not get upset for an AP test placing you out of statistics or other math course. But don't expect success beyond that. Contact medical schools. See what they tell you.