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<p>jayalert, yes i did take honors chem. i had dr. krichten and i thought she was very good. she is extremely nice and very helpful. she gives approximately 3 quizzes per exam (10 total per semester), and there are 3 exams per semester (not including the final). all exams (including the final) were multiple choice and she would give partial credit depending on the work you showed. labs were fairly easy. she replaced our lowest quiz grade of the semester with our homework average (homework was done online and it was VERY easy to get 100%) and she dropped our lowest lab grade. </p>

<p>if you had AP chem in high school you should be fine. i, unfortunately, had one year of chem in high school with the most awful teacher ever and started college literally having no knowledge of chemistry and still did pretty decently considering it was an “honors” section.</p>

<p>thanks for the input. I also had an awful chem teacher for honors chem, didn’t take ap. That’s why I was concerned. Is she the only teacher for honors chem and if not how are the others, if you know from friends?</p>

<p>there was only one section of honors chem last year, so Krichten was the only one teaching it (i haven’t heard of them ever having more than one section of the class). i was scared to death of taking an honors level chem course due to my (lack of) high school preparation but i did fine considering. obviously the people who had AP will (usually) have an easier time, but the class was totally manageable and, from what i heard, was a heck of a lot better than some of the gen chem classes.</p>

<p>for CHE 201 is says i need an aris access card. what is that?</p>

<p>ARIS is the online site where we had to complete our homework assignments. last year, the books that were ordered by the bookstore (new and old editions) did not come with the card so i had to purchase an account directly from the site. the card would just have a code on it.</p>

<p>I was wandering, how hard is it to get into a medical program at any school? I know you have to take prerequisites in order to get into a medical program in the first place, but I’m confused!!! Is it hard to get into the prerequisites, or can anybody take the prerequisites and the hard part is getting into the actual medical program?</p>

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<p>go around this website</p>

<p>there is also a premed forum here: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>anyone can take the prerequisites, and there’s not that many of them. getting into medical school is difficult, you need a high gpa and mcat scores plus enough ECs with clinical experience and research, or at least that’s what the med schools seem to like.</p>

<p>The hardest part is getting into any medical school. I know one guy personally who is not a bio major and is going premed, and as far as i know he had no problem getting into any of the science courses needed to get into a medical school (except for orgo, but that was a result of other factors totally not related to you). </p>

<p>Anyone can take the courses needed for premed at TCNJ. Just so you know in order to prepare for med school as a non-bio major at TCNJ you would need to take two bio courses, gen chem 1 &2, orgo 1&2, calc A and physics 1&2. All of these courses have “large” class sizes (about 48 max for lecture and 24 for lab). </p>

<p>Does that answer your question?</p>

<p>thanks again! i will stick with honors chem then.</p>

<p>Thank you to all who answered my questions!
I believe I want to major in biology when I finally get into college, so we’ll see how that goes. I can’t wait! I’m ready for all the work, I would love to enter the medical field.</p>

<p>Hey again,
Do nurses take the same courses as Doctors when taking prerequisites and when in Med-school? In fact, do all of those who wish to study medicine in any one of its forms take the same prerequisites and Med-school programs? I’m sure brain surgeons may study more in depth material when it comes to the brain, but would a brain surgeon take the same prerequisites as a nurse would, and would a nurse take similar courses as a brain surgeon when in Med-school?</p>

<p>Ok, I’m going to attempt to answer your questions, but keep in mind I’m not really that familiar with the nursing program here and i am NOT an expert in med school lol…</p>

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<li><p>you do know you do not have to go to med school to be a nurse right? i am pretty sure that nursing students at TCNJ do not take the same courses as people who are going premed. you can look at the curriculum on the TCNJ site. i would assume that nurses also do not take the same courses as doctors in grad school</p></li>
<li><p>from what i’ve gathered, when you go to med school all students will take the same courses and go through rotations (which will introduce you to various areas of medicine) and then after the 4 years they choose what specialization/area they want to do their residency in (i.e. brain surgeons will go to med school with people who want to be pediatricians, plastic surgeons, etc. but will do a residency in brain surgery or whatever while the others go on to whatever area of medicine they want to be in)</p></li>
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<p>hope that gives you some answers! i would suggest browsing through some sites of medical schools and looking at their curriculum. it might give you a better idea of what it’s like</p>

<p>Thanks again <em>Hazeleyez</em>,
I had some idea that nurses may not have to go through as much as doctors would.</p>

<p>does anyone know if international affairs major is any good here? most people have been asking on more scientific majors, but haven’t really read anything on intl affairs program. And would also like to know about the dorms, because I hear the campus is beautiful…but in particular, any inputs on the dorms?</p>

<p>for my biology (185) and chem (201) classes it says that along with the two textbooks i also need a workbook for each class some kind of looseleaf (student study guide?). is this really necessary or just a waste of money? what use is it? is it just a book or does it come with a CD or something too?</p>

<p>and also for my biology class we need the text biology, 8th edition by campbell that if bought new comes with some key to the mastering biology website. it would be cheaper if i didnt get it, is that also needed?</p>

<p>Yeah, you need the lab manual for bio and chem. Bio is a looseleaf packet that you have to buy at school. Chem is a softcover book you can buy somewhere else. In my bio class, we didn’t need the key, might depend on the prof though. Who do u have?</p>

<p>i have shevlin. whats the lab manual? on other text book sites i’ve seen student study guide for chem and bio with like pictures of the texts on the cover. that’s what i only need for chem?</p>

<p>and is the chem packet that microscale general chemistry laboratory isbn 978-0-471-20207-3?</p>