<p>ok thanks I’ll make sure to stay away from engineering now :)</p>
<p>Are these all of the requirments?
[Office</a> of the University Registrar](<a href=“http://stanford.edu/dept/registrar/students/courses/GER_1092.htm#Math]Office”>http://stanford.edu/dept/registrar/students/courses/GER_1092.htm#Math)</p>
<p>How many do you have to do for each category/section?</p>
<p>The page below is the best place to find GER information.</p>
<p>[Office</a> of the University Registrar](<a href=“http://stanford.edu/dept/registrar/students/courses/GER.htm]Office”>http://stanford.edu/dept/registrar/students/courses/GER.htm)</p>
<p>To summarize, you must fulfill the following requirements:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>IHUM. Three courses, one each quarter of your freshman year. You will be assigned to these courses, and changing courses requires petitioning (which isn’t that hard if you’ve got a good reason, like a conflict with the class).</p></li>
<li><p>PWR. Two one-quarter courses, one freshman year and one sophomore year. Like IHUM, you get assigned to these.</p></li>
<li><p>Disciplinary Breadth. Five areas; you must take one course from each area. Courses in your major will satisfy at least one of these, if not more.</p></li>
<li><p>Education for Citizenship. Four areas; choose two and take one course from each. So two courses total.</p></li>
<li><p>Language requirement. You must take a full year of one foreign language. You can test out of all or part of this requirement.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Some notes: The language requirement is the only GER you can test out of. Some courses will satisfy both a DB and EC requirement, so taking one of these (they’re not that hard to find) will reduce the number of GER courses you’ll have to take. And if you take SLE, that satisfies the entire requirements of IHUM and PWR (so you don’t have to take PWR as a sophomore), plus one of the EC requirements (I don’t remember which area).</p>
<p>For Pre-meds:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Is Chem 31X recommended? How do I prepare for the placement test? (is there a textbook I should study, what kind of material is covered, etc)</p></li>
<li><p>Is there a way to take bio core before taking organic chem (33)? And is it recommended to take chem 33 freshman year (2nd or 3rd quarter depending on if I take 31A/B or 31X), or will the workload be overwhelming?</p></li>
<li><p>Can freshmen take physics 20s series freshman year, or is there some sort of prereq? (I’d like to get rid of physics my freshman year lol) And the 20s series is sufficient for med school req, right?</p></li>
<li><p>Can somebody elaborate on the Human Biology major? :)</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Thanks!! (sorry for the laundry list of questions)</p>
<p>1) Chem 31X is recommended if you have a strong chemistry background and want to get your chem requirement out of the way in one quarter. </p>
<p>Do not study for the placement test. It’s a test to figure out which level of chemistry you belong at and studying for it sort of ruins that. You do not want to get placed in a class that you cannot handle.</p>
<p>2) You can’t take biocore until Sophomore year. </p>
<p>As for Chem 33, it can be a difficult class for many people, and it’s difficult to say if it will be overwhelming without knowing what other classes you’re planning on taking with it.</p>
<p>3) Yes, freshmen can take physics 20 series freshman year and yes it is sufficient for medical school. That being said, you have four years here so there’s really no need to finish up all of your reqs within the first two years. It’s better to do well in the classes rather than finish them all up quickly.</p>
<p>4) The Human Biology major consists of a 30 unit core usually taken sophomore year (10 units each quarter). In addition to that, students have a 20 unit area of concentration that combines upper division classes from at least three different fields (for example, my friend has a combo of Humbio, Econ and Public Policy classes while another friend has a combo of Bio, Humbio and Psych classes). There’s also a 20 unit foundation (of which 10 units can be premed) which is basically any intro level classes relating to your Area of Concentration. Other than that, you just have three other upper div HumBio classes and a 4 unit internship. </p>
<p>Basically, HumBio is a good choice if you (a) have interdisciplinary interests, (b) know that you want to study something involving either health/biology/environmental policy/health policy but aren’t exactly sure what or (c) want a lot of flexibility/few requirements</p>
<p>Thanks Pistachio!!</p>
<p>One more question 
Is just first quarter pass/fail? P/F is supposed to be ‘easier’… right?</p>
<p>No quarters are pass/fail…you could take certain classes pass/fail if you’d like, though (but it’s not recommended to do so for premed requirements, and you have to take university requirements and a lot of your major requirements for a grade)</p>
<p>Oh o_o I thought that for freshmen, first quarter was p/f… maybe I just heard wrong or something.</p>
<p>You’re thinking of somewhere else. I think MIT does that.</p>
<p>^Caltech does the first 2 quarters p/f as well I think. </p>
<p>I posted this in the general thread, but why not post it here as well:</p>
<p>I already checked the past IHUM threads, but found limited advice pertaining to my situation.</p>
<p>I’m an '13er, and I have to decide soon if I would rather take “Freedom, Equality, Difference”, “Laws and Orders”, or “Truth and Morality.” They all seem pretty interesting to me. Can anyone shed some light on which of the three has the best teachers, most interesting assignments, least reading, etc? I am mostly concerned about the reading load at this point, as I am a slow reader. Any help is appreciated.</p>
<p>The Approaching Stanford forms were due yesterday, and I applied for Freshman-Sophomore College. How are FroSoCo kids viewed on campus? do they tend to be all fuzzies, all techies, or an even mix? Do they tend to be a little more driven than most students?</p>
<p>Also, I listed the Freedom, Equality, and Difference IHUM as my first preference, and Truth and Morality as my second. Does anyone have anything to share about those two classes?</p>
<p>hmm I picked</p>
<ol>
<li>LO</li>
<li>Journeys</li>
<li>FED</li>
<li>Humans and Machines</li>
<li>Beyond Survival</li>
<li>etccc</li>
</ol>
<p>If you want past students reviews of classes (including IHUMs), check out <a href=“https://courserank.stanford.edu/CourseRank/main[/url]”>https://courserank.stanford.edu/CourseRank/main</a></p>
<p>^I was very similar to that, just with journeys and FED switched. hah.</p>
<p>and I decided to forgo the extra essay and just live in an all frosh dorm on a coed floor.
woo!</p>
<p>Silas is my hero.</p>
<p>Anyone have any insight regarding the first part of my question? ^^^</p>
<p>current students maybe?</p>
<p>How do you get into course rank? Because I can’t get in until I rate three classes at Stanford, which will be impossible for another six months or so. Did I put down the wrong year or something?</p>
<p>You can’t get in? I got in fine. Maybe you did put the wrong year down.</p>
<p>I probably put down that I was a senior at Stanford, rather than a senior in high school. wow, that was pretty careless. maybe I’ll contact the sitemasters and see what they can do.</p>
<p>ngolsh: FroSoCo kids don’t have any particular reputation around campus. The dorm used to be known as slightly insular due to its distance from central campus, but this doesn’t reflect badly on its students. When I was a freshman, I got the impression that FroSoCo residents were a little nerdier than average (note: “nerdy” is generally not a pejorative term at Stanford), but this may have changed.</p>
<p>I signed up for the SLE program as my first choice. How rigorous is the program? (in the guide, it made SLE seem a lot harder than the other IHUM courses).</p>