<p>They just changed the requirements for the class after last year (I took it), because people thought the curriculum focused heavily on neuroscience (which it did), and most students didn’t know much about Neuro since there was no pre-req for the class.</p>
<p>Ohh thanks…darn…gotta figure a new schedule out now…</p>
<p>Regarding lateness: You’ll be fine. 10 minutes will be plenty of time…just hurry and walk fast.</p>
<p>Regarding rec letters: go to office hours and/or arrange other times to meet with the prof one-on-one.</p>
<p>And yes, I do think 2 credit courses count as 2 units of courses for the overall 30 course requirement. Does anyone else know for sure about this?</p>
<p>Thanks to both of you!! :)</p>
<p>Regarding office hours…what do you do when you go to see the professors? Ask questions? If you ask a lot of questions wouldn’t that seem like you don’t get what they teach in class? (I’m one of those people who’ve never been to see a teacher alone to ask a question…)</p>
<p>One of the longest walks you’d have is from halfway down the hill (Classics, Philiosophy are beyond ListArt) to 190 Hope Street (German department, beyond Barus and Holley and the APMA department). I was able to do this in about 10 minutes each time, but my first class occasionally got out late. I told my German teacher in advance that I’d be a minute or two late each Tuesday, and she was fine with it. I know Smitty-B (Smith Buonanno) to 190 Hope or to Barus and Holley can be rough too. Some professors say in their syllabus that students entering classrooms late is distracting, so do your best to get to the next class on time - it’s pretty much always doable if you move quickly.</p>
<p>About office hours: You can pretty much talk about anything during office hours. You can ask questions about lectures, clarify homework problems, or discuss a draft of a paper you have written, or even talk about stuff not directly related to the course. I think in smaller classes, professors are generally willing to clarify what you don’t understand from class. In larger classes though, I would think that TAs are a better resource for that. Some (but not all) professors mandate that TAs sit in on classes, so they would generally have an idea about what goes on in class.</p>
<p>About distance: The longest walk I have had to make so far at Brown is from Gerard House (Philosophy department) to Barus & Holley. I kind of barely made it each time. Thankfully the second class got shifted to Wilson a few weeks into the semester.</p>
<p>Hi, I’ll be a freshman on the premed tract; I have a few questions about courses at Brown. Is there an advantage to taking the Chem 330 placement exam (I plan to take the chem-100 online course over the summer, since higher-level chemistry might look better on my transcript or get my premed requirements out of the way)? </p>
<p>Also, do the seminars I pick for the FYS and CAP lottery really matter (e.g. would it make more sense to pick a neuro class if I’m majoring in neuro)? I’m confused as to the course load and time demands of FYS and CAP (I’m guessing they don’t show up on my transcript).</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Chem 100 is roughly equivalent to pre-AP chemistry and, as far as I know, is not helpful for med school apps. As such, it would definitely be useful to place into Chem 330 if you can - you’d likely be very bored in Chem 100 if you have much of a background (AP level).</p>
<p>Where is everyone coming up with the information that FYS and CAP courses don’t count? They’re the same as any other course and count equally on the transcript, but at least 3 people have been under the impression that they don’t in the past week. You should take something that interests you, but not necessarily in your intended concentration. The professor of a CAP course would be your freshman advisor, so that’s somewhat relevant, but they need not be in your field, since it may change. You should treat an FYS or CAP course as the same work as other courses.</p>
<p>There must be some unfortunate language somewhere that is confusing people about the FYS’s and CAP courses – I’ve never heard of anyone being confused about that before, and all the sudden everyone is.</p>
<p>I’ve heard that students at Providence schools all get fake IDs and go clubbing on weekends versus having campus parties. How much does this hold true at Brown?
I am not asking about kids who drink or what alternative activities there are, just wondering about the kids who do party.</p>
<p>^Completely untrue. My friends and I were big partiers and none of us had fake ID’s. Brown is, by and large, a campus campus.</p>
<p>Some students do get fake IDs, and some do go clubbing. But my understanding is that most of those who party don’t use fake IDs. Some parties are small, informal affairs (the only parties I’ve attended have been like this, with fewer than 20 people), while others are frat parties.</p>
<p>(I should add that my post wasn’t intended to imply that no one gets fakes. Some people like to hit up off campus places where it’s necessary; I even encountered people in very different social groups from mine who thought everyone at Brown had fakes. I think that, overall, the number of people who have them is smaller than most schools in cities.)</p>
<p>Most of my friends and I stay on campus for partying. However, we’ve got a few people with fakes, which they mostly use to buy alcohol around campus for us. I’ve gone to a few 18+ clubs in downtown Providence, which have been fun. Don’t have a fake, so haven’t checked out the bar scene yet. I might someday, but I’m old for my class so I feel as though buying a fake for only a little while isn’t worth it.</p>
<p>I’m sure this question has been asked before, but i can’t seem to find a solid response.</p>
<p>I intend on going pre-med, but I’m a little confused about the math requirement. On the website, it says</p>
<p>“Mathematics – Take at least two semesters of college-level mathematics with at least one being Calculus (MATH 0090<em>, 0100</em>, 0170, or 0190).
NOTES: A very small number of schools (Harvard, Washington University in St. Louis, and Johns Hopkins) require a full year of calculus. Students with AP scores in calculus should still take at least one semester of college math appropriate to their level of preparation.”</p>
<p>If I get a 4 or a 5 on the AP Calculus AB (and thus getting credit for MATH 0090), do I still need to take two semesters of math at Brown? Or just one? Would taking Math 0010 be enough to satisfy my requirement, or would I need an additional course?</p>
<p>Most of my premed friends took MATH0100 or 0170 and then a statistics course (I guess some med schools want stats). I’d be inclined to say that’s a safer route, since no grades are seen for MATH0090 through AP credit (or through taking the course, since it’s mandatory S/NC), but you should talk to the premed advisor. A quick google-ing of the topic shows that it varies by med school, and some are not clear whether or not they accept AP credit. Harvard explicitly does for Calc, for instance, while it seems others do not.</p>
<p>So something like APMA 0650 and MATH0010 would be a good route?</p>
<p>That’d undoubtedly satisfy the requirement (though a lot of those same friends complained that they weren’t learning anything in APMA0650). Again, though, talk to the pre-med advisor to see if it’s necessary. It appears to be a limited number of schools that require statistics, and I’ve read but can’t verify that all schools that want multiple terms of calculus accept AP credit.</p>
<p>I’ve been advised not to take five courses my first semester, but looking ahead at the next four years, there are just way too many classes I want to take that I won’t be able to if I only take 4/semester. Any advice? Would 5 really be too much if two were S/NC?</p>
<p>Part of your experience will be how limited the number of courses you can take is. I suspect that, given a 5th year, I still couldn’t take everything I wanted, and I’ve taken 5 courses every term but freshman fall. With that in mind, 5 courses freshman fall is generally not a great idea. You should see the transition to college as another course, time-wise, and you can’t assume you’ll work as effectively as you did in high school (many more distractions abound). So…feel free to shop 5 courses and try, but be very willing to drop one of the courses if you find you don’t have the time (or are lacking in a social life, which I would have been if I had taken the 5 courses I wanted to). I’d heavily advise against 5 courses the first term - see what you can handle, particularly with lab sciences (the chem and physics labs take up lots of time but give you no extra “credit hours”) before jumping into an intensive schedule. 5 courses at Brown are like 20 credit hours elsewhere.</p>