<p>i’m actually feeling pretty anticlimactic. DEFINITELY was a heck of a lot more nervous last year. honestly, im treating the whole as if i get accepted, i’m gonna have one of the best days ever. if i don’t, well i’ll just keep concentrated on the rest of my life.</p>
<p>about orgo, i’m taking it now, and it is definitely tough. i had actually taken a watered down version of it in high school, so i’m a little more familiar with the mechanisms and visualizations.working in groups is imperative; i would have bombed most of the psets otherwise. </p>
<p>but as hard as orgo is, physical chem is 100x worse. ochem might stress you out during exam time, but pchem makes your hair fall out 24/7. the textbook is SO HARD TO READ because of all the integrated math. that stuff is so hardcore that if you don’t have a solid grasp on multivariate calc and diffy Q, you can forget about doing well in pchem. essentially, pchem is genchem 2 on steroids. it’s where the boys become men. even the women become men…</p>
<p>@Castiel: I’ll be transferring in as a junior. Don’t Bio majors still have to take o-chem? Or maybe I just saw alot of them in the class because its a pre-req for med/dental school. </p>
<p>@melonbread91: I haven’t taken pchem yet, but from what I hear its the toughest class a chem major has to take. I’m actually looking forward to it, as I love math. </p>
<p>To be honest, I would rather be a math/applied math major, but to go anywhere in that field (IMO anyway) you need an advanced degree, and I’m not sure if I can compete with the best at that level. With chem at least I can just pick up a couple bio classes and complete all my pre-req’s for medical/pharmacy school :). We’ll see how confident I feel in mathematics after I finish “little Rudin”.</p>
<p>Ochem is one of the prereqs for bio major (as mentioned on CALS website). Im taking my last orgo class of the whole series. Hella exciting coz we’ll be learning a bit of biochem in the end of the quarter</p>
<p>Ahh, just read ALLLL the pages I missed (I work all day on weekends so don’t have time to post), was searching for magical acceptances. Why some part of me believe that admission counselors are these little elves, working day,night, and weekends to pump out decisions is beyond me. </p>
<p>I wonder if I should be worried as a CALS applicant that I haven’t heard yet… ugh.</p>
<p>I am looking to transfer into CALS for the Spring of 2011 as an AEM major. I am currently a freshman at St. Joseph’s in NY. I had a 3.65 at Hofstra first semester and should have a 3.8-3.9 this semester. I am taking two classes this summer so I should have all my prereqs done by next spring, as long they take one of my BIOs.<br>
I don’t have the greatest out of school resume but I will be interning with a local politician this summer and volunteering at my high school as an assistant coach. I had around a 95 gpa in HS with a 1930 SAT and 600 on World. I was in the top 10%. Not sure if they are going to look at my HS stats though.
What are my chances of getting in? Will not having a prereq done kill my chances?</p>
<p>I usually hate Mondays but I am kind of excited about tomorrow since the admission people will be working and some of us may get to hear from them ^_^</p>
<p>I know you’ve asked this question before and again; I doubt that many of the applicants to Cornell had any W’s and that includes “withdraw fails” and “withdraw no shows.” More than one W (especially a WF or WN) is probably going to significantly lower your chances.</p>