<p>Thank you js; your anecdotes illustrated the point I was trying to make. Even in an extremely collaborative college, premed courses are really tough; don’t need no stinkin’ curve to make it that way. No college is gonna give out all A’s and B’s in Frosh Chem (well, with the possible exceptions of those grade-inflated colleges in Cambridge, Providence and Palo Alto).</p>
<p>And, of course, B’s won’t get you into med school. A few won’t keep you out, but unhooked applicants need to shoot for a ~3.5 or better, or need stellar mcat scores.</p>
<p>You are absolutely right in the sense that there will never be a point where everyone gets an A or B in a premed class. I was merely trying to describe my experience in premed classes during my freshmen year as a student at Emory. I studied with others in the class, and really didn’t find it very competitive. Hard as hell, but not competitive. </p>
<p>Lastly, with all due respect to your opinion, as a student, I can tell you that there is a huge difference between the B school and the College. The B school students are extremely competitive because of the curve and the nature of the B school (business is competitive). You really can’t compare the classes and grading between the two. I don’t know how to explain it better than that, but I’d say most students in the College would agree with me.</p>
<p>I think we’re saying basically the same thing in a different way. Hopefully this will give the incoming freshmen/applicants a better idea of what to expect.</p>
<p>Do you guys know if Math 141, is Calculus AB, or Calculus BC? I have to take math 141 because I am an Economics major, but if its Cal AB or BC, I will just use my AP credits for it…</p>
<p>hey! i got a 5 on the ap calc exam and am planing on majoring in business the pre req for b school is either bus calc or calc 1 and calc 2 … should i take business calc or should i do regular calc 1 and 2 … which is harder?</p>
<p>Im about to be a sophomore and Bio 141/142 was interesting (and pretty tough and time consuming) at Emory, and I wonder why. I actually made a 4 on AP Bio, but just chose not to take the credit because my AP bio class was a joke (I taught myself the exam material). Anyway, what I found was that bio 141/142, especially 142, was not transferable to other schools (and as u said, not too similar to AP bio) in GA (Im from Ga and have friends in other schools) such as UGA, Mercer, or any other state university because of the huge genetics component (most tend to keep the emphasis limited to cell/organismal biology, they don’t plow deeply into molecular genetics and the like). I remember trying to ask friends from these places for help during the latter part of 141 and they were clueless. Hell, when I got to 142, I asked for aid from a friend at Duke in an accelerated bio class and even he was clueless. Despite being left out on a limb by all my friends, I ended up putting forth a pretty solid performance. But I still really wonder if anyone knows why the heck Emory’s pre-med (Im not pre-med by the way, I wanna do research/academia in an area of science) biology is so different. Why the strong emphasis on genetics that others don’t tend to have at the introductory level? Just curious if there is any insight on how Emory bio evolved to be that way, cause one thing is for sure, it seems to make the class pretty tough.</p>