<p>I'll be a freshman in the fall studying biology/premed. I am truly clueless as to what classes I need to take and when, so I apologize if this comes off as na</p>
<p>Bio 1 and Gen Chem 1 are not offered in the same semester because chem is a biology prereq. The first Biology class is Bio 2960, by the way.</p>
<p>Here’s what you’re probably looking at:</p>
<p>1) Calculus (whether you go with 1-3, that’s up to you. Just know that a lot of bio major tracks require DiffEQ, so you’d be looking at 2.5 years of math rather than 1.5 if you start in Calc 1). These courses are labeled as Math 131 (Calc 1), Math 132 (Calc 2), Math 233 (Calc 3), and Math 217 (DiffEQ). Stats is also required, which is Math 2200/3200.</p>
<p>2) Gen Chem 1 (Chem 111a)</p>
<p>3) Gen Chem 1 Lab (Chem 151; chem is strange in that it’s a separate course)</p>
<p>4) French 102D</p>
<p>5) Writing 1… IF you’re placed in it. You don’t really get much of a say whether you take it in the fall vs spring, as I understand it (I was an engineer though and didn’t have to take it). If you don’t get into Writing 1 in the Fall, you can stick some elective or whatever you want here really.</p>
<p>This gives you, credit wise:</p>
<p>1) 3
2) 3
3) 2
4) 5
5) 3</p>
<p>16 credits. That’s totally doable, especially considering Romance Language classes, while a lot of time since they meet every day, aren’t all that hard if you have background in either the language or another romance language. The intro 100-level language courses are mainly all just busy work, and you should be fine considering you have enough background not to be starting at French 101.</p>
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No idea on the first, no to the second. That being said, taking 3 french classes would fulfill one of your IQ requirements and you could knock that out pretty quick.
Plus, as I mentioned, all 3 should be an easy A so long as you don’t blow off the homework. One last note - all of the French professors I know are wonderful; I know a handful of people that majored in French and they did so partly because of the department. My only personal experience in the Romance Language Department was that I took Italian (and also loved the professor).</p>
<p>Edit: note, since you’d be starting in French 102, it may be more than 3 courses to meet the LCD language sequence:
<a href=“http://college.artsci.wustl.edu/files/college/Language_Sequences_French.pdf[/url]”>http://college.artsci.wustl.edu/files/college/Language_Sequences_French.pdf</a></p>
<p>(The other option, of course, would be to just take 4 LCD courses, which includes things like linguistics; french 102 could potentially count for 1 of those 4).</p>
<p>Edit 2: I actually know someone who’s meeting the LCD requirement by just taking a batch of intro classes. Something like French 1 & 2, Spanish 1, and Italian 1. I don’t know if that’s legit, but apparently her advisor ok’d it.</p>
<p>So, intro to bio 1 is offered in the spring, and requires gen chem 1 as a pre-req. Thus, premeds take bio 1 second semester freshman year, and take bio 2 first semester sophomore year.</p>
<p>Writing 1 will be either first or second semester, you’ll find out at orientation.</p>
<p>Most pre-meds either take physics (117/118 or 197/198) freshman year or junior year, depends on personal preference. (Taking it junior year was more appealing to me)</p>
<p>There’s practically no med schools which have a foreign language requirement. A good portion of artsci do take one, but it’s reasonable not to. (I’m doing linguistics, for example)</p>
<p>I’d recommend not going back to Calc 1. At best, you get an easy A, but don’t get your money’s worth (You are paying a lot, make your classes worth it). At worst, you are so bored with the class, that you find it hard to motivate yourself to put the required time into the course. Calc 3 is objectively fairly easy, so I don’t anticipate you having trouble if you did well in 1 and 2. If you really, really don’t want to take calc 3, you can try classes such as statistics.</p>
<p>Additionally, you’ll have chem lab, which is actually separate from the lecture in the case of gen chem.</p>
<p>Edit: @Johnson181</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure Diff EQ is not required for bio majors. I think that’s pretty much only required for engineers and some math majors.</p>
<p>Ack - Ryan, you’re entirely right on DiffEQ. That being said, there are some tracks that strongly recommend it (the Computational Bio track, I believe). Also, every person I know personally that was a bio major (that’s not all that large a sample, to be honest), took DiffEQ at some point; I do not necessarily know their reasoning.</p>
<p>Either way, starting at Calc 1 means 4 math classes or at least 3 if you’re in a track that doesn’t require Calc 3. I agree that the OP should just start with Calc 3 because it is indeed easy (compared to dealing with sequences/series in Calc 2, at least).</p>
<p>source: [Biology</a> Major Tracks | Department of Biology](<a href=“http://wubio.wustl.edu/undergraduate/major/tracks]Biology”>http://wubio.wustl.edu/undergraduate/major/tracks)</p>
<p>thanks so much!!! Your advice really helped me :). I registered for classes and I’m taking chem, chem lab, calc 3, writing 1, French 102, and a pass/fail bio seminar. 17 credits. It should be fairly manageable I think.
I was wondering about next semester too… I know I will be taking chem 2 and the first biology class, but would it be too stressful to add physics on top of that? I think I should probably only take 13-14 credits next semester so that I can focus on the bio and chem classes.</p>
<p>Physics I isn’t offered in the spring semester, so that’s not really an option. Now that psych will be on the MCAT, maybe intro to psych would be a good class to take?</p>
<p>To be honest, I think you’re better off taking French later and taking Physics now. As Ryan said, you can’t take Physics I in the spring so you’d have to wait until at least next year. Physics is definitely easier when all of your friends are taking it at the same time.</p>
<p>^ most bio majors take physics as a junior, so she’ll be taking it with friends regardless. Additionally, since she’s starting in French 102, it’ll probably be easier to take now, while she’s fresh out of french in high school, than delay it a semester and lose a lot of proficiency she already has.</p>
<p>Is this doable in Fall 2013 schedule: Chem111/151 , Calc III, Physics 197, BME 140, Eng123?</p>
<p>I believe that’s reasonable. I’m not an engineer myself, but that seems like what a lot of them take.</p>
<p>What class is Eng 123? I dont see that on webstac. Anyway, if that is a class, then you will have 18cr. Your advisor has to approve it but you can take 18cr freshman fall. But it will be very time consuming and a lot of hrd work. Not much time to enjoy your first semester specially if you need an adjustment period. Grades may suffer a bit. I mean 4.0 will be a miracle.</p>
<p>^ Your advisor does not need to approve you to take 18 credits (at least in the engineering school). I took 18 my Fall Freshmen and no one ever said a word to me. (My last 3 credits were an art class, and so while time consuming, was not difficult).</p>
<p>However… gocardin, it looks like you’re thinking bme? If so, Virtual Study (E60 something) is a requirement, fyi. It’s only 1 credit and not difficult, but just something to be aware of.</p>
<p>I think virtual study is also called Engr 123B this semester, so I assumed that is what he meant.</p>
<p>Boy, they’re really not fooling around with Chem111/151, Calc III, Physics 197, and BME 140. Those five classes together make for a very, very difficult semester. Not to mention the extra 1-credit class which only makes things worse regardless of how light the coursework is.</p>
<p>Yeah, definitely not “fun” by any means, but people still do it… Clearly all BME majors are crazy, hahaha</p>
<p>Yes. I am a BME major planning to go on premed track. Eng123 is the virtual study 1 credit hour. Have taken Cal AB/BC/ AP chem/AP Phys B/C(Mec E&M both).</p>
<p>Thank you all for the inputs: Ryan/RaVNz/Johnson</p>
<p>christine for that pass/fail bio seminar, do you know how that plays in with bio 2960? anyone else who knows about this feel free to answer. Thanks.</p>
<p>Aswagg - I had a friend that took it. It’s completely separate from 2960, and didn’t really help them. It’s nice if you’re interested in bio, but don’t take it just to get a leg up.</p>