Is there a huge grade deflation?
Is it hard to get a good gpa?
Thank you
It depends on which campus you go to, and I can only offer you information pertaining to pre med at lincoln center. LC has a really bad natural sciences department and poor pre med advising. I really don’t want to discourage you but LC is definitely not a place for pre meds who want high gpas, which is pretty much all premeds. We have a few specific professors currently who have had astronomical class failing rates compared to previous professors, namely for chemistry. There’s no curving so your raw score translates to your grade in the class, which wouldn’t really be a problem if the grading and whatnot was fair. However, when having to deal with incompetent professors who tell you they will not help you when you ask them questions or go to office hours, it’s kind of hard to get a good grade. Look into professors like Marie Thomas and Alma Rodenas. I know rate my professor can usually be kids ranting because they did badly due to their own lack of effort, but these two professors who are unavoidable at LC for premed…they really should not be teaching. Many of my friends who were pre med here have had to drop the program because they failed chemistry with Thomas, despite putting in lots of time and effort into the class. I just barely passed and am in chem II, and I honestly do not thing the majority of my class, including myself, will be passing it.
As for pre-med advising, your advisor will most likely be Dr. Vernon. She is the one who writes committee letters and such. She is very intelligent, but cannot advise students properly for the life of her. Very unhelpful and inaccessible. If you need general advising i’d suggest going to your class dean but for pre-med specific questions they will probably redirect you to her, which is just useless.
The only things I can say about premed at RH, from friends who are at that campus, is that the class scheduling is more flexible and the professors overall are more helpful and accessible in and out of class. Some of them have said it’s a little easier to get premed advising and that the advising in general is more helpful.
Thank you. It would be rose hill, so that’s good to hear!
Anyone else have more advice? I am a bit worried that I might get a bad gpa there because of how a lot people are making it seem.
I am going to chime in about Rose Hill. Not much different. My daughter has friends who are doing very well in prehealth. My daughter is no dummy. She loves the sciences, but when the final is based off of the American Chemical Society Exams and not what you learned in class, that is a problem. Luckily we purchased the exams and study guide and my daughter did pretty good. But in the end, the grades killed her GPA. She loved her chemistry professor, he went out his way to schedule study sessions. Her friend is prehealth at NYU, tutored her and she is able to do NYU sciences with no problem. She would go in confident for an exam and then the exam would be on a chapter they hadn’t even covered yet.
It was a waste of time for my kid. She knew it was going to be hard. She initially was going to do it freshman year, then changed her mind. Then decided to go for it in sophomore year. Big mistake. She didn’t have a social life. All she did was study study study. And in the end, had B’s and C’s. Got as far as junior year and left halfway through the fall semester. She lost a lot of weight and it took a toll on her health. To this day even though she loves science, she saw what she missed. Studying abroad being one of them.