<p>I heard Biochemistry is a good course. Regardless of how it will help me for medical school, I will take it because it’s a requirement for my major (take a guess: Biochemistry 
).</p>
<p>Doing well on AP Chemistry really means nothing because college chemistry goes far more in depth. My school refuses to take any AP credit from sciences, and I’m sure this is similar to other schools.</p>
<p>D has a classmate who is from NM, so I had heard her mention that NM required biochem. That is interesting about the type of student they prefer to admit. Thanks for the link ASMAJ.</p>
<p>^ k, thx for clarifying that for me! :)</p>
<p>Not impossible or even easy if you’ve already taken AP or organic chemistry before.</p>
<p>my freshman year roommate sailed through organic. But she was an excellent student (especially in sciences) and kind of a crazy studier in general.</p>
<p>Really depends on the person. I would have been an Epic Fail if I tried to take it freshman year.</p>
<p>Agreed with Emily2007. I took orgo as a sophomore and it was kinda-sorta-pre-med-fail. As a freshman? It would have been definitely-fail.</p>
<p>D’s gen. chem. was her easiest class in college so far and she did not have AP chem in HS - most her tests were over 100%. However, Orgo was not easy at all, she got her “A’s” in both lecture and lab, but it was not easy. She mentioned that it really had nothing to do with Gen Chem, Orgo being pure memorization.</p>
<p>honestly, it depends on where you take it. i have friends who took orgo at a state school and i’ve looked at their notebooks - the range of information covered was VASTLY different in their orgo class than the stuff i had to go through.
so i would say talk to students who have taken orgo at your school.
seeing as how columbia is an ivy, i would assume that they would go into orgo a bit deeper than some other schools, IMO</p>
<p>There are people who take orgo as freshmen…in HS. Then again, those are few and far between and don’t worry about taking it in college, unless they forgot their orgo.</p>
<p>There is a friend in my college who simply goes to lectures, does not study for exam except briefly looking at notes, goes to exams, and pulls A’s in every single organic exam in both semesters.</p>
<p>Secret?</p>
<p>He had orgo in senior year.</p>
<p>Still, I think that some people just get orgo better than others.</p>
<p>
I had to ask as it is not clear to me:
Did he take orgo in senior year in High School? or in senior year in college?</p>
<p>I know several students who took orgo in high school and then claimed that orgo is “easy” when they took it for the second time in college. (There are no lack of such students at my school.)</p>
<p>I took orgo 1 in the spring of freshmen year, and orgo 2 the next semester, I struggled more for my orgo 1 mainly because I was still a freshmen (less mature).</p>