<p>I know Bio isn't the most popular major at Vassar, but is the department good? with caring professors? If you take bio at Vassar, please share.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>p.s.
how's the medical school acceptance rate now? I saw one graph that showed a sharp drop of acceptances in 2005 to 60%?</p>
<p><em>bump</em> i am also curious about this. i looked around the vassar website and couldn't find information on a premed program. any current students know anything?</p>
<p>i also wouldn't mind info on the international studies and language departments.</p>
<p>it's the 5th largest major. 20% of Vassar students major in some sort of the natural sciences.</p>
<p>I was in Olmsted Hall (the bio building) yesterday and it's a pretty nice and equipped facility. There were also a lot of students in there, it seems to be an active place.</p>
<p>what i thought was cool when i visited campus and the science building was that every thursday the science department had a tea....students said this was a great way to meet other profs in the dep. and to get connections for lab work with them....i also know that a few years ago (5 or 6) vassar's bio program was mostly pre meb people, but now i think there are a lot more people in bio doing other things with it than just med school (could explain the drop in med school stats) That is all i know</p>
<p>Hi everyone, I'm a freshman and either a biology or biochem major. As far as the biology department goes...I love Olmsted (the building) its fairly new and well equiped. Its a pretty large department and the professors I know are great. I do get annoyed with the department a little though because they do not offer as many classes per semester as they should. I think this is a problem in the chemisty department too as the sciences are expanding at vassar. I think they're trying to fix this by hiring more professors. Let me know if you have any other questions.</p>
<p>skid-
What do you think about the Vassar bio curriculum? does it give you a variety of courses that you can explore? Does everyone have to take an intro course at the beginning, or can you just start taking whatever you're interested in?</p>
<p>I don't know if anyone is still reading this thread (I sorta forgot to respond sorry) but, you have to take a full year of intro, half of which you can get out of if yoou have AP Bio. There are quite a few 200 level courses, my only complaint is that they do not seem to offer all the courses that much. Some courses seem to be rarely offered.</p>
<p>Ask Lisa Kudrow; she was a bio major at Vassar.</p>
<p>How about physics?...</p>