<p>^If you haven’t taken organic chemistry, you may want to stay where you are to keep that high GPA. The risk for falling GPA is very real if you are going to take organic chemistry at NU. Rumor has it orgo at NU is the toughest in the country. The fact that NU does not grant any orgo credit from anywhere else, including Harvard (used to be the only school from which the credits were allowed), seems to support that.</p>
<p>Two anedotal examples:
- A premed at Penn took it when she came home for the summer. She said it’s the hardest class she’d ever taken in college.
- One of my HPME (the BS/MD program at NU) friends scored 36 on MCAT just for fun and curiosity but only managed two B+ in the orgo sequence.</p>