<p>Opinions anyone?</p>
<p>it is not conceptually difficult. But there is a TON of memorization.</p>
<p>How different is it from general chemistry?</p>
<p>I found it very different from gen chem. It wasn't like it was building on things that you learned in general chemistry. It felt like an entirely new subject to me.</p>
<p>I'm not sure that I can really answer anything about how hard it was because my school separates organic chem into two semesters, and I've only taken Orgo I. I've heard, though, that the second semester at my school is a lot of memorization, but the first semester was more conceptual. Ask again in December, and I'll try to give a better answer.</p>
<p>At many schools organic chem is a weeder course for pre-meds. This may make it unnecessarily hard.</p>
<p>What do you mean a "weeder course"?</p>
<p>A weeder course means it is the one that often decides whether you will go on for pre-med or do something else with your life. At many colleges you will find a number of pre-med students who get to organic chemistry and find it so difficult that they change their major.</p>
<p>Trying to weed out the pre-meds. At a lot of schools, 30 to 50 percent of the entering freshmen say that they are pre-med. By the time that those people are seniors, a much lower percentage of people actually apply to medical school. Typically, reason that a lot of former pre-meds give for dropping the idea is Organic Chemistry.</p>
<p>I really want to be a doctor though but I'm scared O.C will be too hard</p>
<p>after my daughter flunked spring semester of Ochem I found out that the people I knew that were drs and vets had
taken it at a huge university where it was graded on a curve and some students didn't bother to attend or drop the class
Audited the class before taking it for credit ( this was very common)
I wont say that you can't take it once and not pass- but beaware that it is one of the most idfficult classes that you will take in school. it is a weeder class.</p>
<p>I heard of a number of people at my school who dropped Organic and decided to take it at a state school nearer to home over the summer and then transfer the credit. I knew that my summer plans would keep me from taking it at another school, and so I was one of the brave who decided to keep taking it. I'm glad that I made the decision that I did.</p>
<p>Don't get me wrong, I studied constantly (a couple days before the exam, my roommate said, only half-jokingly, that she hadn't seen me without my orgo book in a month). But the advantage of taking it at my school was that I had a small class, and I felt comfortable approaching the professor if I didn't understand something. Also, taking it over the summer would've meant spending hours and hours each day in lecture and then lab.</p>
<p>Organic Chem/PChem/ThermoDynamics.....hmmmmmm Many a premed has flown off the rails by one of these babies. These courses will separate the applicants for sure. IF they don't cause you to rethink they will lower many a GPA.</p>
<p>BUMP</p>
<p>apparently planning to take OChem
BIO
CALC
SPANISH
WRITING in first semester of college. Trying to apply for MedSchool and wants to insure success. Suggestions other than mine.</p>
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<p>Thats a hell of sched.</p>