<p>well duh. but pre-med students ruin those science classes for me, generally creating a culture that suppresses intellectual discussion and being hostile to healthy enthusiasms for research.</p>
<p>Being forced to call them pre-med classes means admitting that pre-med students “own” those classes. </p>
<p>I’d much prefer it if we could separate the science classes into two tracks – an easy pre-med track, and a more interesting, real-science track. This is done for chemistry and physics but not biology.</p>
<p>I have some really good pre-med friends, who are actually passionate about science, but most of the time they tend to be the, “I don’t care about issue X in chemistry/biology/physics, this isn’t relevant to my pre-med career”. Is that the sort of attitude Jefferson would have liked to seen?</p>