Engineering + Premed schedule

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<p>Hi guys, I just wanted any input you have on this potential schedule for my freshman year and whether its too much:</p>

<p>Introduction to Engineering Design (3 credits)
Differential Equations (3 credits) [Have Calc I, II credits]
Object Oriented Programming II (4 credits) [Have CompSci credit]
Physics: Mechanics (3 credits)
University Orientation (1 credit)</p>

<p>For a grand total of...14 credits!</p>

<p>I was just wondering that since I'm using a lot of AP Credits, if skipping to these higher classes will be too hard</p>

<p>If not, could I fit in a 3 credit gen ed course, or possibly gen chemistry?</p>

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<p>Physics and Intro to Engineering should both be no problem if you are willing to put in the hours studying. OOP will either be very tough or very easy depending on how naturally coding comes to you. I’ve never taken DiffEq myself, but from what I hear it is one of the tougher math courses, so you might want to do a little research and consider replacing it with a gen ed if it sounds like more than you want to deal with right off the bat.</p>

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<p>Differential equations without multivariable calculus? Is that the usual sequence for your school?</p>

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<p>Well Multivariable Calculus isn’t a required course, but I could take it and have it count for an elective</p>

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<p>It depends. Probably not with scores of 5. More likely with scores of 3. You may want to see if old final exams for the skipped courses are available to check your knowledge.</p>

<p>Many medical schools do not accept AP credit, so if you skip pre-med courses, you may need to take the same number of more advanced courses as the skipped ones.</p>

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<p>I did get a 5 on Calc I, Calc II, Chem, and Comp Sci A but I took all these Junior Year so I’m not entirely fluent with the material any more.</p>

<p>I was told that going back to Calc I was unnecessary so I was thinking about taking Calc II instead of DiffEq</p>

<p>If that was the case, my schedule would probably look like this:</p>

<p>First Semester (15 credits)
Introduction to Engineering Design (3 credits)
Calculus II (4 credits) [Have Calc I, II credits]
Object Oriented Programming II (4 credits) [Have CompSci credit]
Physics: Mechanics (3 credits)
University Orientation (1 credit)</p>

<p>Second Semester (18 credits)
Introduction to Computer Systems (4 credits)
Digital Logic Design (3 credits)
Differential Equations (3 credits)
Physics: Magnetism (3 credits)
Physics: Magnetism Lab (1 credit)
Honors Program Required Course (4 credits)</p>

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<p>If you got a 5 on Calc BC, Calc II will probably be a waste of your time. I got a 2 on that exam and Calc II was easy but time consuming for me. Do you not have any humanities/gen ed type classes you could fill in with? If you are coming in with Calc I and II already taken care of then there is no rush to get through the prereq chain.</p>

<p>One thing that has me a little confused is that the title of this thread is “Engineering + Premed”, but this course list looks like Engineering + Computer Science. Am I missing something?</p>

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<p>if you know how to do basic integration and differentiation and know how to punch keys into a ti-89, you’re good to go for calc.</p>

<p>you’ll want to pay attention to diff eq, because that stuff is just as important as calc in engineering.</p>

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<p>@YonderMountain, I guess that makes sense since I’m doing Computer Engineering!
And I’m not trying to rush through the prereqs, but Engineering has a lot of reqs, so I have to cram a lot of classes in order to get pre-med done as well</p>

<p>@spectastic, I’m confident in both my differentiation and integration abilities. I’m taking a multivariable calc class in high school right now, and I did a lot of Calc II integration practice, so I’m exceptionally well at it now.</p>

<p>I guess I can take Gen Eds later to lighten my load, but I could take Gen Chem as an easier class since I got a 5 on the AP</p>