<p>I'm currently a high school senior. in the future i wanted to become a chemical engineer. I was only worried if it was going to be hard for me because I haven't took any physics courses yet. and as for chemistry I got an A both semesters; however, my teacher focused on only stoichiometry and a few other concepts. I am pretty good in math though, never got lower than an A out of all four years.</p>
<p>Will it be hard for me to become a chemical engineer with no physics background and a weak chemistry background?</p>
<p>It might be hard if you have not had the courses in high school to see if you like the subjects (though if you find in college that you do not like the subjects, you can switch to something else like math if you like that). You might also have to study more in college chemistry and physics courses, because the introductory courses may assume that the student has had a high school level introduction to the concepts.</p>
<p>ucbalumnus: ty for the reply. yeah it probably will be harder. but I have good study habbits and study to my best day my day. I am pretty good in memorizing information…</p>
<p>Do either chemistry/physics involve any memorization?</p>
<p>Well if you mostly focused on stoichiometry you should be ok, since that is about the most relevant thing that you will learn from gen chem that can be applied to ChemE. As far as physics I wouldnt worry about it too much, you esentially have to get through the physics sequence and then you probably will never see about 90% of the stuff again, hell I probably couldnt even set up a free body diagram. But in either case physics really isnt that bad.</p>
<p>Chemistry will require a fair bit of memorization including gen chem and ochem, there really isnt any much you can do, however you can try to understand the major concepts which will limit the amount you have to memorize. Physics should require no memorization just problem solving ability.</p>
<p>Having stong math ability IMO is much more important in ChemE than physics and chemistry ability.</p>