<p>Hey guys so i'll be starting college this coming fall and I want to know how my schedule looks. Please tell me if you guys have any recommendations for my track in college. Oh and I'm going to be majoring in Biology. </p>
<p>Fall 2009
Honors General Chem
Honors Chem Lab
Journalism
Calculus II
College's Intro Seminars</p>
<p>Total Credits: 13</p>
<p>Is it too light? Please help me because I'm serious about college but I wanna make sure I also have time to enjoy college.</p>
<p>yeah 13-credits is kind of wimpy, even for a first semester freshmen. MAybe add a Gen ed or two? Psych and Soc classes are always interesting. What about a language?</p>
<p>yep 13 credits is weak. Take one more 3 credit class and you’ll be at a solid 16 credits. Take a foreign language! Those normally aren’t too difficult.</p>
<p>You can definitely take another class, that schedule seems a little light unless you want to take it easy your first semester. Its definitely going to get harder from there.</p>
<p>Yea, its below the standard Pre-Med Students, I recommend you take Bio I w/Lab, generally this isn’t that difficult at all, and will bring your count up to something more respectable.</p>
<p>^ Agreed. It should be recommended you take Bio and Chem concurrently I believe.</p>
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<p>I think taking a light first semester is a good idea. A lot of people struggle with adjusting to the college environment, and I think fewer credit hours can make the transition easier.</p>
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<p>This is nonsense, if you ask me. I took general chemistry as a freshman and intro to biology as a junior. There’s no need to take them together.</p>
<p>thx for the responses guys. I might add PSY, but do u guys think i shud add anothe science instead like bio? BTW i got a 4 on my AP Bio exam so i dunno how that plays out. I heard that many med schools dont accept ap credit so i shud take bio. Thx for the help again.</p>
<p>You can simply take “more advanced” bio instead to fulfull that pre-med bio requirement. For example–Cell Biology, Genetics, Developmental Bio, etc–doesn’t really matter too much what you add as of now, as long as you add something, it’ll be good! Good Luck!</p>
<p>Worth noting though that unless you feel very confident about your HS bio class, it might help you out to waive the AP credit and retake the intro bio course in college. This way you have a good chance of getting a higher GPA for this requirement than taking the higher-level course on a shaky HS foundation.</p>
<p>DON’T take gen bio with that schedule. Gen bio is 4 credits and NOT easy. It’s a premed weeder class; it won’t be easy. If you take gen bio you have to take the lab which takes up a bunch of time. Plus, you are now taking 17 credits including two hard sciences and calculus which would be intense for freshmen 1st semester. I’m not sayings it’s impossible to take gen chem and gen bio at the same time. I did it last year (freshman) second semester successfully. But if you want a more gentle transition into college just take that psych class or a language or anything that’s not more than 3 credits. Definitely take gen bio in college though! I got a 4 on the ap bio test too. Believe me you learn a lot of new stuff in college bio, and it’s good review.</p>
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<p>This varies school by school. I thought Gen Bio was ridiculously easy - the lab was a joke. That being said, I was a junior when I took it, so I had a lot of college experience under my belt. The OP should definitely ask around at his school to see how hard Gen Bio will seem to a freshman.</p>
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<p>Well said. Sometimes, I feel that each school may have its own set of “killer” pre-reqs. Out of 8 pre-req science classes at a school, not every pre-req class may have the same “annihilation power.”</p>
<p>But it is not easy to find out how difficult a course at school X is as compared to the same or similar course at school Y, as most premed students tend to believe that the courses that they take at their schools are the most difficult ones in the universe. (Well, I exaggerate it here.) If somebody really can dig out this information and write a book about it, many neurotic premeds may buy it, considering the fact that many students will pay to access the information at a site like pickaprofessor.com.</p>
<p>A related question is whether a course is more difficult than another course at the same school, assuming that the capabilities of this student for these two courses are at the same. (which is unlikely true though.)</p>
<p>Assuming that all the data like this is available, and the capability of each student on each subject can be objectively assessed (SAT subject tests or AP tests may not be tough enough), somebody can write a program which can help predict the success rate of a perspective premed student.</p>
<p>I know it will not work, as there are too many other factors that can not be included, like “Will the student be happy there?” or “Will the student perform better under a greater pressure/challenge? There are some students who are like this.”</p>
<p>I guess I am dreaming today. Hopefully my dream is not as crazy as the dream babydragon had recently (that dream was posted recently on another thread.) :-)</p>
<p>Pre-meds ususally take at least 2 science classes. First Bio at D’s school was one of the hardest weed out classes, but everybody was taking it with Gen. Chem, which was easy.</p>
<p>Although this has probably been said, you should take intro bio lecture w/ lab. If you already have AP credit and don’t want to do that, then take some more advanced bio class.</p>