is it possible to take all these pre-reqs in a year?

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I have to take English1&2, A&P1 and 2, w/ labs Chem 1 and 2 w labs, microbiology w/ labs and college algebra. Have any of you finished this quickly?

I was thinking of taking A&P1 and English 1 this summer.

A&P2 w/ lab, chem 1 w/ lab, college algebra and english 2 during the fall

and then take micro, chem 2 w/ labs and stat during the spring

what do you guys think?

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I think it's a very doable schedule (assuming your school follows the semester system) if you're working part-time or not at all.

I'd break your schedule down as follows:

Summer: Chem I, English I

Fall: Chem II, A&P I, Math

Spring: English II, A&P II, Micro

It is helpful to have some basic knowledge of chemistry prior to A&P. How comfortable do you feel with statistics? How long is the summer session? 5 weeks? 8 weeks?

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I think the summer is doable.. but that is a tough fall semester.. I found ENG 2 ridiculously time consuming and OMG college algebra bites. (If you're good at math that might not be a problem for you). So far AP is pretty intense and adding chem to that.. wow.. but if you put your mind to it you can do anything! :)

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I think it's a very doable schedule (assuming your school follows the semester system) if you're working part-time or not at all.

I'd break your schedule down as follows:

Summer: Chem I, English I

Fall: Chem II, A&P I, Math

Spring: English II, A&P II, Micro

It is helpful to have some basic knowledge of chemistry prior to A&P. How comfortable do you feel with statistics? How long is the summer session? 5 weeks? 8 weeks?

That does sound like a much better schedule but I'm applying for a nursing program that has a point system so they dont give me any points for classes ill be taking in the spring so I was trying to squeeze most of it during summer and fall. I wont be working at all thank goodness! & I'm taking AP chemistry right now which I heard is much harder than the Survey of Chem 1 in the community college i'll be attending. The summer session is 8 weeks long. I'm taking AP stat now and i'm okay at it. hopefully that will give me a leg up.

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I think the summer is doable.. but that is a tough fall semester.. I found ENG 2 ridiculously time consuming and OMG college algebra bites. (If you're good at math that might not be a problem for you). So far AP is pretty intense and adding chem to that.. wow.. but if you put your mind to it you can do anything! :)

oooh can you share your experience with ENG2? I want to hear how it is! how many books and papers did you have to read and write? I'm taking AP lit right now to prepare but im still worried. how different is it from ENG1?

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We had five or six papers plus 2 in class essay exams. We had to read different types of literature and write papers on the stories we read. The two really long ones were Oedipus (not too bad) and the play Death of a Salesman (which was tortuously boring and I hated, hated, hated the whole story.) We had to do a research paper critiquing other criticism on an author. It was rediculous.. but my instructor was a total tyrant and that probably didn't help.

Comp 1 was a breeze, I should have taken the same teacher for Comp 2.. I'm not sure why I didn't.

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At my school they won't let you take Chemistry without having completed Algebra 1 & 2 first, so you might want to check on that as a prereq.

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English 2/Comp 2 whatever your school system calls it - is easy. Especially if you went to school here in America. It is the same old stories we've heard from elementary/middle-junior/high school - all you have to do is write about the stories from a more analytical perspective... And maybe you get introduced to some plays that are unfamiliar.

Your schedule sounds very doable, remember everyone's experience is different (some people are whiners, some are go getters - so they visualize the situation differently).

You can do it!

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At my school, Chem 2 is a pre-req for A&P 1.

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English 2/Comp 2 whatever your school system calls it - is easy. Especially if you went to school here in America. It is the same old stories we've heard from elementary/middle-junior/high school - all you have to do is write about the stories from a more analytical perspective... And maybe you get introduced to some plays that are unfamiliar.

Your schedule sounds very doable, remember everyone's experience is different (some people are whiners, some are go getters - so they visualize the situation differently).

You can do it!

thanks a lot for your encouragement! I start college 5 days after i graduate high school so I just wanted to know if all my hard work is worth it because my whole point of doing that is so I could finish quicker and get to nursing school ASAP.

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At my school, Chem 2 is a pre-req for A&P 1.

you were right! chem is a pre-req for A&P 1 I just called in and asked about it right after I read your post. But they said since i took AP chem that it covers it but i'm going to retake chem in college anyway because i need all the points i can get to get into that nursing program. eek.

Thanks!

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I was going to suggest that several courses that you are looking to take may be pre-reqs for other courses.

My college requires Eng prior to any of the other courses you listed. Chem is often a prereq for A&P and algebra is often a prereq for Chem.

So, I would break it down more like this:

Summer - Eng 1 and Algebra and Chem 1 (if you can take chem without algebra first)

Fall - Eng 2, A&P 1, chem 2

Spring - A&P 2 and Micro

I think that no matter how you break it down, it is a very full schedule with lots of science in a relatively short timeperiod. Especially for a 1st semester college student.

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