<p>I took Honors Chemistry at my school the first semester of my sophomore year, and I truly do not remember a single bit of chemistry....And I am extremely serious, nothing, I can barely read a periodic table, and I know this will hurt me at Dartmouth. So my question is, can I take Chem 2 if I want to? </p>
<p>I am going on the pre-med path; so this year I will take Chem 2 in the fall, Chem 5 in Winter, Chem 6 in Spring. Is that alright, or should I start with Chem 5 like most people?</p>
<p>Wait, I also saw that you have to be somewhat deficient in Math, which I'm really not (5 Calc AB, 780 SAT, 760 SATM2)
will this be a problem?</p>
<p>if you don’t have to take a lower level class, don’t.
it’s taht simple.</p>
<p>chem 5 has no assumed knowledge. and it has a super generous curve. well, some people will say it doesn’t, but, honestly, everything at dartmouth is curved/scaled to a B or B+ at the worst, soo. … </p>
<p>if you want to do pre-med, it’s probably best not to take extra classes if you don’t have to … you’ll have enough real premed classes and distribs, interest, etc. to not want to waste classes on things you’ve already taken.</p>
<p>though, of course, nobody will keep you from taking it if you want to.</p>
<p>no knowlegde necessary? u serious?</p>
<p>im way too confused about how classes and premed tracks and majors and the sorts work right now. we’ll figure it out during orientation right?</p>
<p>In my mind, this is no question–you’d want to start off in Chem 5.</p>
<p>As far as premed goes, the following classes are needed:
Chem 5/6
Chem 51/52 or 57/58
Physics 3/4
Bio classes fulfilling the lab requirement</p>
<p>There may be one or two more that I’ve missed.</p>
<p>I believe Chem 2 is for people who can’t do the math necessary for Chem 5… as in dimensional analysis, etc.</p>
<p>^thats what i thought, but isnt it an introductory to an intro to chem?</p>
<p>Don’t take Chem 2 if you took honors chem. I didn’t take AP chem and didn’t remember anything from hs chem and was worried too, but I was fine in Chem 5 and 6. If you do the work you will end up with at least a B and if you have a good background you will likely think the class is easy (as did a lot of the AP chem kids). Chem 2 is for people who haven’t taken calculus AB or pass the calc h, and I don’t think the chem2 kids thought chem5/6 were any easier.</p>
<p>go straight to chem 5. expect a lot of work, but it shouldn’t be too bad esp. if you have a good prof.</p>
<p>chem 5 will be fine - just work hard and do lots of problems. math knowledge was minimal and tons of ppl came in remembering nothing from hs chemistry</p>