Chem 31x, Math 51, Physics 43/45 freshman year = doable or death??

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<p>I have enough AP credit to place into these classes freshman year. Would these be extremely hard…especially the chem 31x series?? What are your opinions on:</p>

<li><p>the honors math 50’s series…extremely harder than the normal 50’s?</p></li>
<li><p>jumping straight into chem 33 in the fall quarter…</p></li>
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<p>-also, what are the physics 20’s series: non calculus based physics?</p>

<p>also, would I have room for these classes? can anyone give me a sample schedule of a freshman at stanford?</p>

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<li>the honors math 50's series...extremely harder than the normal 50's?</li>
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<p>yes... pretty extremely...</p>

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<p>Don't forget you have to have IHUM (a 5 unit class) every quarter of freshman year. It'd be a pretty full schedule.</p>

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<p>easily doable, there are many people that take much harder schedules. The 40 series isn't known to be "hard" ... I don't know much about chem 31x but it doesn't really have a bad reputation from the people who took it in my dorm.
The H series is significantly different (and harder) from the 50 series, the 50 series is not really hard, I'd put it on the same level as Calculus. From what I've heard if you take 51 off track it is way easier</p>

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<p>The H series is not only much more difficult, it's completely different material. If you haven't had at least some exposure to the material of the 50 series (can you take the gradient of a function?), I would advise against 50H. But you can go to the first few lectures of the H series and drop down if necessary. Lots of people do that; you'll see the class size of 51H drop by a factor of 3 to 5 by the end of the first week.</p>

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<p>I'm current in differential equations right now so math 51 would be a review...iono if stanford takes credit for community college though</p>

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<p>I'm pretty sure they take CC credit for diff. eq./linear algebra/multivar calc.
And they're quite generous with it too.
If anything, they'd want the course syllabi just to make sure.</p>

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<p>Actually, don't count on getting credit for CC courses. I didn't, though I didn't try particularly hard to convince them, and I took the 50H series anyway, so it was moot.</p>

<p>The thing to keep in mind about the Stanford math department is that transfer credit doesn't really matter. Prereqs are not enforced; you can just take any class you want if you think you're ready (and then sink or swim). Furthermore, if you major in math, the department's pretty lax about course requirements, so they won't make you repeat the 50's if you've had the courses before.</p>

<p>And if you're in diffeq now, and you've had multivariable calc, you're ready for 50H. Good luck!</p>