Question of the Week: PHY 109/110 for Premeds

Nov. 15, 2019

Question: Dear HPA: I’m BSE and I’m thinking about taking PHY 109 and PHY 110 and PDF’ing PHY 103. Will this be okay for premed?
 
Answer: We cannot promise that every medical school in the country will accept this combination since you will ultimately have only one semester of Physics with lab taken for a grade. But, we would share information about the sequence with medical schools, explaining that you have completed the equivalent of our PHY 103/104 sequence in a manner that satisfies your major requirements and we expect that most medical schools will be willing to accept this. You are encouraged to investigate the physics prerequisites on the websites at schools of interest – if you aren’t sure if the courses would meet their prerequisites, send us a URL and we can look into it. If we aren’t sure, we’ll work with you to contact the school directly to ask about their policies.  

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