<p>any thoughts from past students or currently enrolled or anyone out there?</p>
<p>Are you talking about BS-MD, or simply just pre-med?</p>
<p>I am talking about the premed track, about the advising you can expect, internship and research opportunities, and any coop that can differentiate DU? </p>
<p>Unless you have a good scholarship, Drexek costs too much.</p>
<p>The scholarship is good enough, it brings the tuition down to instate level. If we ignore the cost element, would it make sense to go there?</p>
<p>I’m an engineer, so I don’t know too much about Pre-Med. You can be on the pre-med track through multiple different majors (Biology, Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Other Engineering Majors, there’s a few others that I don’t know). So the program does have some diversity to it. In terms of internship experience… It’s Drexel. You’re not going to find better internships (In Drexel’s case, Co-Ops) in most other schools. If you’re unfamiliar with the Co-Op program, definitely look around Drexel’s website; It’s sort of our trademark. </p>
<p>In terms of research opportunities, that depends more on your major, but Drexel is a very research-oriented school, especially in STEM. Getting involved in research here is really easy too; Almost every professor welcomes undergraduates, even freshmen, who want to work in their labs. That about sums up what I can answer directly pertaining to Pre-med. I know there are programs as well like early assurance and BS-MD that ensure you get into Drexel’s School of Medicine prior to the general date of acceptance. You can definitely look those up to find out more.</p>
<p>Let me know if you have any other questions! Good luck on your search. </p>
<p>Thanks @riotdu… Can you also comment on the possibility of testing out of the AP courses like Calculus BC? And also comment about the placement test at DU, seems pretty unique to DU.</p>
<p>I found this online:
<a href=“Academic Policies - Office of the Provost”>http://www.drexel.edu/provost/policies/pdf/supporting/ap_crosswalk.pdf</a>
Just from my own personal experience, Calc BC will get you credit for Math 121/122/123 (Calculus I-III). Other AP’s get you out of other things too though. </p>
<p>Almost every school uses placement exams, that’s definitely not unique to DU. I don’t think Drexel’s are entirely too unique or anything either. They’re necessary so the university knows what level of expertise you have in certain areas. For example, if you were entering in and going to take Spanish, they want to make sure that the Spanish 3 class you took in high school translated to a proficient level of Spanish. The same thing with other subjects. Drexel needs to make sure that your high school chemistry class gave you an adequate BACKGROUND, as they don’t want students to be taking general chemistry who don’t know what a periodic table is. </p>
<p>Typically, we can test out of certain courses based on our AP score alone, in most universities. They do not mandate a placement test. A placement test is something that we have seen only at Drexel. Though there could be few other schools doing this, it is certainly not a common thing.
We’re you able to test out of any subject? Or are you aware of any friends who could do this?</p>
<p>If you do have credits from AP scores, they will override your placement exams (so even if you failed the Chemistry placement exam, if you have AP Chem credit, it will take you out of Chem). The reason you have to take Placement Exams even if you’re doing AP’s is that CollegeBoard is a terrible organization to deal with and Drexel has no guarantee that they are going to get your scores on time, so they need to have the placement exam for reference when they start scheduling classes, which is often prior to them receiving your AP scores. Also, if you did recieve AP Credit for a course and decide that you want to just take it at Drexel again anyways, Drexel needs a placement exam to see where to place you. </p>
<p>The placement exams are short and really not at all burdensome. You aren’t supposed to study for them or anything. You just sign into Drexel’s interface, answer questions, and you’re done. It takes less than 30 minutes for each exam. As I mentioned, most other schools do it. I don’t know where you got the idea that other schools don’t have incoming freshman take some sort of proficiency assessment. Out of my group of friends in high school, I’d say 9/10 of us had to take at least one placement exam.</p>
<p>I got 5’s on AP English Lang & Comp, AP Calculus AB, AP Microeconomics, AP Macroeconomics, and AP Psychology. I received credit (respectively) for English 103, Calculus 1/2, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and Intro to Psychology. If you have any other AP scores you’re wondering about, you can easily use the link I posted or probably just Google it. All that type of information is online. </p>
<p>When do you register for courses for freshman year? Like first quarter, second quarter, etc? Do you pick courses for the entire year OR 1 quarter at a time? Is this done during orientation? </p>
<p>For your first term of freshman year, your undergraduate adviser will make your schedule for you. It becomes available a few weeks before the term starts. After that, you make your schedule for each term usually about 4-5 weeks before the term begins (I.e., you’ll make your Winter quarter schedule during Fall Quarter. Your adviser will teach you how to do so). You pick your courses one quarter at a time. You can find the plan of study, degree requirements, and an overview of the curriculum for your program on Drexel’s website, if you’re interested in finding out what courses you’d be taking first year. </p>
<p>Thanks @riot…appreciate you taking the time. Do you pick the courses for the first quarter during “orientation”? If so, then would it make sense to participate in the very first orientation? </p>
<p>Nope, as I said, your adviser will make your entire schedule for you and will just put you in the first quarter classes that are standard for your curriculum. For example, let’s say you’re a biology major. This is what the sample plan of study looks like:
<a href=“Biological Sciences < 2022-2023 Catalog | Drexel University”>Biological Sciences < 2022-2023 Catalog | Drexel University;
Under term 1, it lists Bio 122, Engl 101, Chem 101, Math 121, and Univ101. Those are the classes that your adviser will place you in, unless you have AP Credits. If you wanted to alter your schedule (I.e. to take an elective), you would just email your adviser, and they would register you into whatever course you want to be in. If you have AP credits to skip, let’s say Calculus I, your adviser would then place you into the next highest math course you’d take after Calculus I. It will all be taken care of for you.</p>
<p>So to answer your question, you don’t pick your courses, register for them, or make your own schedule, so there’s no need to try to go to the earliest orientation. If you do want to modify your schedule, you just email your adviser over the summer, and they will take care of it.</p>
<p>To find your plan of study, go to <a href=“Undergraduate < 2022-2023 Catalog | Drexel University”>http://catalog.drexel.edu/undergraduate</a> and select your college, major, and then, on the right side, click “Sample Plans of Study”</p>
<p>Your awesome! Thanks a bunch. </p>