<p>Yes that would definitely be odd Celest. :)</p>
<p>qscgy who are you aiming your question at? Personally I'm also thinking about taking an IntroSem...</p>
<p>would like to take 35, 36, 41 also Fiction Writing. But concern about the reality of handling all these courses nicely.</p>
<p>^Can't you take any C/NC?</p>
<p>Realistically speaking, yes, you can do them. Just depends on how well you'd like to do in them. Both 41 and 35 require exhaustive amounts of memorization, and 36 requires hours of b****work each week. Just those three would probably fill the average person's schedule with work. If you'd like to add fiction writing, doing it C/NC might be good option. Try it for a few weeks, and if things go downhill after the drop deadline and you have all four classes, switch the grading scale in FW.</p>
<p>yeah i have to do chem 35,36 with bio 41. i just wanted to know what exactly makes the biocore so "scary" and "hard" as ive heard...isnt it just a whole bunch of memorizing facts n'stuff? any perspective on this woud be helpful, thanks!</p>
<p>There's a lot of information, and the tests are kind of hard... you'll get to see tests from the past, so you'll know what I mean. A lot of it is short answer or fill in the blank, and they're not very lenient about partial credit. There are also some "design an experiment to test this theory" type questions, which are hard because it's the first time most people have seen them and they aren't really addressed during lecture time.</p>
<p>Um, also, you're competing with 300 incredibly hardcore pre-meds. Well, not all are intense, but most. You have to realize the difference between a B+ and an A- can be as little as a tenth of a point. There's so little distinction between scores that you have to try even harder to get on the upper end. Nearly a third might receive A's, but to get into that third is no simple task.</p>
<p>Also, you go at the rate of a chapter a day. That's a lot. And not easy to keep up with. Particularly when you're taking other time-heavy classes.</p>
<p>Yup.</p>
<p>I highly recommend that any bio-minded people take Bio 158: Developmental Neurobiology as soon as you are able to. It's extremely helpful for thinking about experimental design, and I love the head professor, Sue McConnell (the course is team-taught).</p>
<p>Any thoughts, experiences, pro and cons about taking 3 sessions of General Physics at Santa Clara University of the summer for pre med?</p>
<p>Compare to taking them at Stanford duing summer quarter?</p>
<p>1) UCSC is a hell of a lot cheaper
2) UCSC is a hell of a lot easier
3) you'd have to commute to UCSC every day</p>
<p>Either way, you're spending the summer taking classes.</p>
<p>Do you mean SCU? Santa Clara isn't a UC.</p>
<p>Whoops. Yeah. My mistake. ^_^;;</p>
<p>Will that look "less preferable" in Medical school application if Physics courses were taking at Santa Clara U?</p>
<p>I have heard that it will not be an issue (I have heard this from med students and premed advisors).</p>
<p>I believe it is "less preferable" to do more critical requirements, like bio or upper division bio, at other institutions.</p>