<p>What do the current cornellians' schedule look like? Tell us what major you are in and whether you want to go to any grad school.</p>
<p>Im gonna be freshman and premed. I just wanna see what an average Cornellian's schedule looks like.</p>
<p>Biology major (premed)</p>
<p>Freshman year, I took math 213 (multivariable calc), math 221 (linear algebra), chem 215-216 (honors gen chem), bio 101/103 (intro bio lecture), bio 102/104 (intro bio lab), spanish 209, writing seminar, PE</p>
<p>This year I took physics 101/102 (gen physics), biochem 332, bio 278 (evolutionary bio), organic chemistry 357/358, chem 281 (organic chem lab), asian american studies 110, american history 154</p>
<p>All done with med school requirements after sophomore year.</p>
<p>Taking bio 281 (genetics), math 171 (stats), biochem 331, and athropology 200 next semester.</p>
<p>Just a question. Are you worried about fulfilling your distribution requirements/language? When do most people finish those?</p>
<p>Spanish 209 fulfilled my foreign language requirement. That was easy.</p>
<p>There's a lot of distribution requirements but I also have a lot of time to finish them. I have roughly 8 credits left of my general bio requirements and another 14 for my concentration. That's only 22 credits of science I have to take in the next 2 years. That means I will have approx. 35-40 credits to devote to fulfilling my distribution requirements. More than enough to graduate in 4 years.</p>
<p>omg, freshman year seemed so long ago. </p>
<p>let's see: Math 122 (honors Calc 2), Chem 207/8 (gen chem), FWS (my favorite class was mystery in the story; since it was a class in the english department, i don't have to take an english/composition course for premed prereq for some schools), philosophical puzzle (cool subject, horrible class), intro to personality, psych 101 (wonderful class and made me love psych, i also took the supplement called Why people believe weird things or something like that), PE</p>
<p>for premed it's pretty much at least one sci (they recommend chem 207 over bio 101 for freshman year if you were to choose only one, many do both), one FWS, most likely Math, and finally an elective (usually foreign language, humanities, or social sci. this can also be bio). I wouldn't recommend going over 15, unless you wanted to take 18, and drop a course you weren't doing so hot in the year, but do it before the final drop deadline (7 weeks in). </p>
<p>sophmore year, much better, took a lot of class I was truly interested in, but still had a nice balance with premed courses. did a lot of career exploration, and found out I still love therapy/counseling, and still like psychiatry and human behavior/development (so will be applying to grad school for clinical psychology, arguably even more competitive than med school as only 10% get in). </p>
<p>future: junior year fall semester, i'm going to pretty much finish my pre-med, take 12 credits spring semester to study for MCATs, and then start collaborating for my senior honors thesis--definitely something to do with second generation Asian Americans, Latinos and hopefully about how they develop cognitively, socially, and interact with peers both same and different ethnicity, and with their parents.</p>
<p>I'm an HD major, so we have it relatively easy with graduation requirements. except for stats, i have basically fulfilled ALL my distribution requirements, so I only have the 30-31 credits in my major, and 9-10 credits in college outside major to fulfill (i'm about 20/40 credits done, so i'm right on track).</p>
<p>I had a typical engr schedule freshman year. I was premed until the end of soph. year</p>
<p>freshman year: math192,293 (engr math sequence), physics 213 (e&m), ece210,aep130,1 fws, a linguistics course, chem208 (2nd semester of gen chem). i think i took another course but i dont remembeer what it was</p>
<p>soph year: phys 214 (waves+optics), chem 357/358 (orgo), math 294, a BME class, a circuits class, a nanofabrication class, and a Classics course</p>
<p>jr + sr year: classes in my major + a few grad courses in chemistry</p>
<p>I was a pre-med through sophmore year and I finished all the premed requirements except for biochem and orgo lab. I also came in with a lot of AP creds in stuff like bio which helped a lot</p>
<p>Shizz, would you recommend taking the Honor's Physics from the beginning, rather than trying to get credit for the non-honor's? (physics/AEP major)</p>
<p>I was considering doing pre-med as an engr major as well, but since I don't have any APs in chem or bio which means I need to start fresh with general chem and bio, but I don't know if I would be able to finish all the pre-med courses as well as my major classes in 4 yrs. I guess what I'm asking is, is it still feasible for an engr major to do pre-med if he/she does not have any APs in chem or bio? How would the courses be like?</p>
<p>hold up, don't they want to see that you took these general prereqs for med school at Cornell and not via AP on your transcipt. That is what I was told by a lot of ppl, including faculty at Cornell.</p>
<p>Right, but it doesn't mean you can't use AP credit. You can use AP credit to skip intro bio but you'll have to take an upper level bio course. You can use Chem AP credit to get into Chem 207/208 or 215/216. It's okay to use AP credit as long as you take upper level courses in the subjects you're using AP in.</p>
<p>exactly, I was saying like if some ppl think that they can just skip out of biology totally b/c of a 5 on AP biology, they are wrong. Of course, you can skip into higher bio courses, but to skip bio in general is a mistake.</p>
<p>what are the text books you use for calc, bio, chem, and physics? is it different for people in engineering and in a&s? i'm wondering whether i should keep my books or not. is there any chance that cornell would use the books i had this (or last) year for the ap classes?</p>
<p>The textbook for Bio101-104 is that huge Campbell textbook. Depend on the math course you want to take you will get different book. If I remember correctly, when I took math 191-192 we used Thomas and Finney Alternative Edition. I have no idea which textbook the 111-112 people used. When I took chem we used McMurray's book. McMurray retired last year, so they changed to another textbook. From what I have heard it's a special Cornell edition, so I doubt that you can get it somewhere else. There are tons of physics books out there. Unless you took AP Physics C, I don't think you will have the physics book for either 207-208 or 112-213-214.</p>
<p>"I guess what I'm asking is, is it still feasible for an engr major to do pre-med if he/she does not have any APs in chem or bio? How would the courses be like?"</p>
<p>It's feasible depending on whether or not you have liberal arts AP cred coming in. Intro bio is a huge time crunch and you'll have to take advanced bio courses in your later years. if you dont have AP in humanities be prepared to have no life</p>
<p>"Shizz, would you recommend taking the Honor's Physics from the beginning, rather than trying to get credit for the non-honor's? (physics/AEP major)"</p>
<p>take it from the beginning. one of my regrets was skipping mechanics and not taking the honors courses. which prof did you speak to btw? you can PM me if you dont want to say it out here</p>
<p>Sure, you can do premed as an engineer. It's much easier if you study Bioengineering, but you can definitely do premed with any engineering major. I have friends who are ECE majors and studying premed. You probably need to take a summer course on bio or orgo if you don't want to overload your regular semester schedule.</p>
<p>Shizz, and person who asked this: "Shizz, would you recommend taking the Honor's Physics from the beginning, rather than trying to get credit for the non-honor's? (physics/AEP major)"</p>
<p>take it from the beginning. one of my regrets was skipping mechanics and not taking the honors courses. which prof did you speak to btw? you can PM me if you dont want to say it out here</p>
<p>WHAT DO U MEAN "NON-HONORS" AND WHY WAS IT A REGRET SHIZZ?? I DONT PLAN ON TAKING NE HONORS COURSES, UNLESS I TAKE A PLACEMENT TEST AND OR PREQUIZ OR SUMTIN THAT TELLS ME I CAN HANDLE IT...WHICH I DOUBT (ALREADY ADJUSTING FROM CANADIAN EDU TO US EDU) wHAT ARE SUM DISADVANTAGES OF NOT TAKING HONORS CALC AND HPYSICS AND OTHER COURSES??? I THOUGHT IT WAS ALMOST NONE DISADVANTAGES ....WORRYING AGAIN....</p>