Order of taking prerequisites question

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I have to take the following:

BIO Microbiology
BIO  Human Anatomy w/ Lab 
BIO  General Human Physiology w/ Lab
MATH Elementary Statistics
 

What order do you think would be best for me to take this? I can take one class at a time as I have plenty of time to work with prior to my nursing school projected start date. If you had a choice which order would you do?

Thanks for the input.

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Specializes in Outpatient Clinic, LTC.

Hi Katrina, 

I personally saved my Science prerequisites to be done last in the following order: Anatomy, Physiology and ended it with Microbiology. Just to let you know, while I was taking my Physio class, my professor suggested that he thought it was better to take Micro before Physio because how extensive Microbiology covered cellular biology, virus and microbes. I received 2As and a B in my Science prerequisites???.  I took my math class before I started on my Science classes. Good luck with everything, you got this!?

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I took them in the same order.  The sciences won't really be affected by the stats.  Micro before anatomy and physiology is a good idea for the reason stated, and in anatomy, you'll touch on physio as a matter of necessity, so when you take physiology, you'll already be familiar with the structures.  One class at a time allows you to get as high a grade as possible, increasing that GPA if your school uses it as points toward admission. 

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Hi! I took anatomy and statistics together, then physiology and ended with micro. This worked well for me and I just followed the pre req schedule for my school. Straight As so far! Good luck!

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took physiology and micro together

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I'd take anatomy before the other sciences and math (algebra if you haven't done it and required) before Chem.

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Took A&P 1 and Microbiology at the same time. I think as long as you take General Biology, should be fine with A&P. I then took A&P 2 and Micro probably helped with that. I took Stats many moons ago. There’s really no reason to worry about the order of Stats in relation to the health sciences. I have straight A’s and I agree with the above poster regarding Micro helping with the topics in physiology.

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Hello, I am looking to take my prerequisites in the Spring of 2023. I still need to take A&P 1 & Lab, A&P 2 & Lab, Chemistry 1 & Lab, Chemistry & Lab, Microbiology and Statistics. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on what I should take together to finish before Spring of 2024. 

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On 11/11/2022 at 2:38 AM, Taylorpolk04 said:

Hello, I am looking to take my prerequisites in the Spring of 2023. I still need to take A&P 1 & Lab, A&P 2 & Lab, Chemistry 1 & Lab, Chemistry & Lab, Microbiology and Statistics. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on what I should take together to finish before Spring of 2024. 

A&P are heavy subjects, its best to save them last. Nursing Fundamentals expands the Anatomy knowledge, and taking them early you may begin to forget some knowledge. 

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