Freshmen class for psychology and premed

Colleges and Universities A-Z Washington University in St. Louis
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<p>Hi, I need advices on freshmen course registration and I'd appreciate it so much if
you'd answer the following questions:</p>

<p>1) First year program or freshmen seminar: They say that is is strongly recommended.
Are they real courses that I earn course credit and fulfill any course requirement?</p>

<p>2) It looks like the freshmen seminor is for students who are not already freshmen. Right?
Then I should sign up for the first year program. Right?</p>

<p>3) I am planning to major in psychology and do premed. I know that premed requires at least two math courses. I like to take Cacl II first, and then later can I take other math course like some statistics helpful for psycholoy instead of Calc III?</p>

<p>4) If there is anybody who does psychology+premed, I would like to know what course
selection will be good in the first year. So far, I am thinking about Calc II, General
Chem 1. Please give me your edvice.</p>

<p>I'd appreciate it so much. Thank you.</p>

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<p>Yes to 1-3</p>

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<p>Biology/psych here + premed</p>

<p>Can’t really answer your first few questions with certainty because of my lack of familiarity with the new IQ curriculum but I know a decent number of people who did those programs and said it somewhat helped fulfill graduation requirements but if you don’t do those programs (which you shouldn’t if you are especially not interested) it wouldn’t be a huge loss. </p>

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<li><p>Yes, any two math courses that adds up to one year is definitely enough. Honestly, I think those math courses have a relatively low importance when it comes to medical school requirements. </p></li>
<li><p>Take a look at the psychology major bulletin for course requirements. </p></li>
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<p><a href=“http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~psych/pdf/2007/Undergrad%20Guide%20FINAL%20LEN82808.pdf[/url]”>http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~psych/pdf/2007/Undergrad%20Guide%20FINAL%20LEN82808.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>If you’ve taken the AP Psych test, I would try to skip intro psych (psych 100b). It can be extremely tough even compared to the advanced classes.
Note that the psychology department consistently uses multiple choice scantron tests with decently tough curves but I know some people thrive on that kind of grading.</p>

<p>If you’re 100% doing a psych primary major, I would definitely recommend eventually taking “Experimental Psychology” and “Psychological Statistics” concurrently with Prof. Estle (It’s a hit or miss for experimental psychology with the other professors and I’ve heard Estle is fantastic). This will knock out the big requirements (Psych 300/301) for the psych major. </p>

<p>Other recommendations:</p>

<p>Social/Developmental Area:</p>

<p>Social Psychology (Psych 315) - fantastic class, felt like I learned many things that I could apply to my every day interactions. Prof. Strube is teaching FL12 and is a very charismatic and lively professor. One of my favorite classes at WUSTL.</p>

<p>Developmental Psychology (Psych 321) with Duchek (from what I’ve heard) is a great class. She is an amazing professor (had her in intro psych). Prof. Markson is teaching FL12 (Don’t know much about her, maybe wait until SP13)</p>

<p>Personality/Abnormal Area:</p>

<p>Abnormal Psychology (Psych 354) - Great class and not extremely tough. You learn about how much we really don’t know about treating mental disorders. </p>

<p>Psychology of Personality (Psych 353) - I am personally bored to death by psychology of personality but I’ve heard its a decent class so I’ll put it here.</p>

<p>Behavior Brain and Cognition Area:</p>

<p>Biological Psychology (Psych 3401) with Prof. Head - Didn’t take this class personally but I’ve heard amazing things about it. She is teaching FL12.</p>

<p>Sensation and Perception with Prof. Abrams (Psych 330) Extremely interesting material. You spend 2/3 of the semester on eyesight and the other 1/3 on hearing. Prof. Abrams can be spacey at times though and doesn’t seem to be very personable. tough grading curve. (i.e. <10% A’s)</p>

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<p>Also, take a look at the website below, it’s pretty representative with what medical schools require:</p>

<p>[url=&lt;a href=“http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/som/admissions/md/process/requirements.html]Requirements[/url”&gt;http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/som/admissions/md/process/requirements.html]Requirements[/url</a>]</p>

<p>I do have a big caveat though. Some medical schools have different requirements (i.e. some require biochemistry, don’t take AP credits etc.) You need to look at the MSAR book (Medical School Admissions requirements) or medical school’s official website to know for sure.</p>

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<p>Re: Prof. Estle - she is indeed fantastic. I had her for the intro class seminar (psych 101?) that I took concurrently with 100b (my year was not allowed to test out of psych 100… grrrrrr… it was painfully easy and boring). I also had her for ucollege Learning & Memory. I’m not a psych major, but my friends who had her for psych stats/experimental also loved her.</p>