<p>Hey, everyone. I'm a UChicago student but I'm on leave at the moment and not actually friends with any Bio majors. What is the five-quarter Bio Fundamentals sequence like? With respect to the time commitment and material mostly. I'm a pre-med, but since I'm a transfer I can kind of wiggle out of the requirement using credit I've already got. Buuuuuuuuut since I like bio I'd like to take it if it's worth it. Thoughts?</p>
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<li><p>If you are a pre-med, how can you afford to re-take a requirement you have already met?</p></li>
<li><p>Are you thinking about being a bio major? If so, you should do whatever the departmental advisor tells you to do.</p></li>
<li><p>If you re-take a course you already have credit for, do you lose that credit (thereby requiring you to take extra courses to graduate)?</p></li>
<li><p>Probably you should talk to the department – rather than taking the whole 5-quarter sequence, maybe you want to jump in at quarter 3 or 4. My sense is that hardly anyone who isn’t a bio major takes quarters 4-5, though. </p></li>
<li><p>During his pre-med era, my son took quarters 1-3. I don’t think he thought they were special on the whole, although there were definitely portions he liked. I also didn’t get the impression he saw a major difference between what he was doing and what his pre-med friends elsewhere were doing in their bio classes. But I could be wrong.</p></li>
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