<p>i'm a BME major and wonder if the course plan is really important.</p>
<p>i finished a biology 1 (the first half of Champell) at community college during my senior year and i guess i'll do better if i take a biology right away again in fall. but BME course plan listed the biology 25L for fall of sophomore year.</p>
<p>what do you think?</p>
<p>i am not sure but i think i might be able to get a credit for that community college class, but often i heard it's better to take it again in a college</p>
<p>what's biology 25L consisted and is it real cut-throut/weed class?</p>
<p>i'm kinda lost at that..
thanks in advance</p>
<p>p.s : oh and i am not so great at chem. .. so i can perhaps replace Bio for Chem for this fall. but then there are so many chem classes to take. (i'm not pre-med, but i just want to do pre-med requirements just in a case)
oh yeah.. how is chem and organic chem courses at Duke.. are they killers?</p>
<p>General chem is the same as AP Chem...a lot of work in both.</p>
<p>Orgo is one of the most feared classes at Duke because of all the pre-meds and tough professors</p>
<p>Dunno about Biologyy 25L</p>
<p>I will say that you dont need to follow the BME schedule at all, but sometimes they only put classes in certain semesters so you have to consider this.</p>
<p>Im not sure if theyll accept community college class credit. They probably wont so youll have to take that class over again. Orgo is tough and if youre not going to be a chem major or premed there isnt much reason to take it. By the way, the course itself is tough, the orgo professors are excellent.</p>
<p>on the "alternate bookbag", it says i have to have chem to move onto the primary bookbag. does that mean i have to have a chem course for this fall?? or can i drop chem once i get to the primary book bag?</p>
<p>BIO25L is the equivalent of General Biology I, BIO26L --->General Biology II. For some reason, Duke grants AP credit only for 25 but not for 26, even tho the AP course covers that material as well. I think a 5 in AP Bio places u out of 25, tho a 4 might as well. Basically BIO25 goes over molecular and cellular biology, genetics, - a lot of chemistry concepts. (photosynthesis, cell resp., meiosis, mitosis, sexual life cycles, genetics, cell organelles, function, DNA structure, fct, replication, cell cycle, etc...) The second course goes over organismal & evolutionary biology, taxonomy, classification, nomenclature, etc... Its basically a survey course that goes over all the different domains, kingdoms, etc...</p>
<p>leejwwc, thanks so much. that's exactly what i wanted to know.
i think i will take bio</p>
<p>oh btw, does anyone know anything about a requirement of Chem class during 1st semester of freshmen</p>
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<p>on the "alternate bookbag", it says i have to have chem to move onto the primary bookbag. does that mean i have to have a chem course for this fall?? or can i drop chem once i get to the primary book bag?</p>
<p>that is weird, with the whole moving chem to your alternate bookbag. I would imagine, if you are forced to move chem to your primary bookbag, that you could take it off once you put them there. The primary bookbag is nothing final... it's just your final draft before you click enroll.
you should totally be able to drop chem from it... but is it a requirement for BME? I'm not sure.</p>
<p>it is a requirement for BME. i just want to change a sequence alittle.</p>
<p>btw, do you guys think doing chem and bio at 1st semester of freshmen WITH calc 2 and EGR 53 and writing would be super crazy?
(i am not ..really smart . i'm from a big crappy public hs and i had only 1 ap every year... um.. yeah.. and english is my second lang.)</p>
<p>I really don't think you should overload. Duke gives you enough time to do four courses per semester for a reason. I've seen many people try to handle the overload and it's a noticeable increase in workload. It's very stressful.
Overloading would be fine if you weren't doing the challenging courses you intend on taking. I suggest you drop chem or bio and take up a half credit PE or something. Those are always fun.</p>