Congrats to Nathan for slaying the college admissions process and getting into Yale!
Also, why is this thread so down? I haven't heard any news from Nathan himself about r*****thing or taking time off for skating. On the other hand, it would be more likely that Yale make accomodations towards his skating. But reading this thread, towards the end, it sounds more like Nathan will accomodate than the other way around.
Nathan will likely defer. When (if) he does enroll, he probably has AP credit and can take a reduced course load.
If he was really intending to defer I don’t know if he’d put Yale ‘22 on his bio. That’s a pretty definite, 4 year away graduation date.
AP credit only covers so much and deferal only lasts a year. A quad is 4 years. What will he do for the other three years and especially 2022?
AP credit can cover a whole year of study, depending on what the school allows.
It's probably just the concept of what he wants to do and how intense everyone knows it is. Even in the Australian system where you don't have to go get an undergrad first medicine is still like 6 years + 1 residency. In other words, Nathan will still be working on this degree after the next Olympics, too! And everyone knows medicine is *intense*.
I'm certainly not assuming he'll r-word or take time off, but I can see why others might think he will. (Or might hope he will.)
AP credit can cover a whole year of study, depending on what the school allows.
Not for Yale/other elite colleges and certainly not for pre-med track.
Disagree.
AP credit can cover a whole year of study, depending on what the school allows.
https://mbb.yale.edu/academic-progr...-medical-grad-school/preparing-medical-school
Not per this webpage from Yale.
Don't want to get into a debate, but nothing on that Yale page re med school contradicts what jenaj said.
Most medical schools require one year each of biology, physics, chemistry, and organic chemistry with laboratories. Most schools further require a year of college level mathematics and English. An Advanced Placement course from high school is not a substitute for any of these, but may be used to qualify for a higher level course in a particular department.
It is important to emphasize that while Advanced Placement courses may satisfy requirements to earn a MB&B degree, these do not substitute for the general requirements for medical schools stated above. For instance, if a student places out of Introductory Biology and Biology Lab with a sufficient score on an Advanced Placement Exam, the student must still take a course in Biology (a higher level course) while in college to satisfy the medical school biology requirement.
AP test scores (and I have no clue about Nathan’s AP results) can be used for acceleration credit at Yale - to complete a degree in less than 8 terms.
http://catalog.yale.edu/first-year-...ration-credit-advanced-placement-test-scores/
While AP credits do not count towards pre-med science requirements, if Nathan is planning on majoring in biology (as he mentioned in the past), he wouldn’t have a problem fulfilling these requirements.
If we're being semantic, you're right, but in the spirit of what is intended by this conversation, not quite.
While AP credit can theoretically cover a whole year of study, this is highly unlikely to apply for Nathan's attendance at Yale, assuming he wishes to attend med school. As lilahozi pointed out, elite universities and pre-med requirements are both factors that make AP credits much less generous than they would be at less-elite universities and less-stringent fields of study.
High probability Chen might drop pre med track anyways, like 50%+ of enrollees.
Premed is one of the most popular majors that ppl declare and then switch out of.