<p>but I’ve heard that the curve for freshman orgo is much easier and that freshmen gen chem has a really hard curve. So can you take freshman orgo and then take a different chem course to fulfill a gen chem requirement?</p>
<p>The freshmen orgo is supposed to be curved to a B- or something like that. Frankly, that’s not really worth it to rearrange your whole schedule for. My sophomore OrgoI prof tried to curve us to an A- which is way better than the freshmen curve. Unfortunately, the class didn’t do as well as he had hoped, but he still made the effort…</p>
<p>The thing with taking biochem instead of gen chem is that some schools (Harvard and Hopkins for instance) take biochem with lab as a substitute for 1 semester of organic chemistry instead of gen chem. Other schools (such as Duke) require one year of inorganic chem, again with lab. Duke’s biochemistry course do not have a lab and therefore would not satisfy the requirements at any of the schools. That’s 3 schools that you’d not be able to apply to if you don’t take a course like Pchem or something after orgo.</p>
<p>^I heard freshman orgo is curved to a B+/A-…That’s what all my friends who took it 1st semester freshman year said anyway. It might have been a B+/B, but either way it definitely wasn’t a B-. That’s normal Gen Chem.</p>
<p>Eh, either way, even an A- curve isn’t enough enticement personally for me to compete with a bunch of intense freshmen premeds…</p>