<p>For all those who have taken the basic intro courses in CAS, i have a couple of questions... BTW, i am aiming to go into pre-med.</p>
<p>1) As a freshmen, what classes should I avoid due to harsh curves (that is among the bio, chem, math, etc.) </p>
<p>2) What classes that are required for pre-med have advantageous curves?</p>
<p>3) What professors are "the best", ala ones that you would recommend for good teaching and easy curves?</p>
<p>4) Any other advice for class curves, your experiences, please, thanks.</p>
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<li>All of them have curves. You can’t really avoid them…</li>
<li>None of them have “advantageous” curves. relatively speaking, math is probably the least harsh because most people, not just pre-meds, have to take math at some point.</li>
<li>Penn Course Review. “Easy curves” do not exist in the sciences. I think chem 015 curves to an A- (I could be wrong. I’m not in Vagelos), but the kids in the class are insane to begin with.</li>
<li>Depending on your own strengths and weaknesses, some curves will be nice to you but others will kill you.</li>
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<p>Bio, Chem, and Math all have harsh curves, especially when compared with the humanities. If you are worried about avoiding harsh curves, pre-med is not for you, I can tell you that now. None have nice curves.</p>
<p>As others have stated, all science classes have tough curves. In particular though, I would avoid Biol121 during freshman year (or at least, don’t take it in the fall; wait until the spring) I think Biol121 is reputed to have one of the hardest curves of the sciences (something like 10% get As, compared to maybe 20-25% in other classes), and especially in the fall, the class is dominated by sophomore bioengineers. Personally I’d recommend taking Chem101/102 before taking Biol121, just because I found the concepts in chem helped in understanding some of the bio (particularly chem 102)</p>