<p>Are these helpful?? I know they are only like 2 hours once a week, but is it a waste of time or actually really worth it?</p>
<p>And just to piggyback on this question… how do incoming freshmen sign up for the course? Do you have to wait until you meet with your advisor?</p>
<p>While I did not take the course, I knew many students who did, all of whom found the course at least interesting. Some even found it fascinating and a few enlightening (i.e. they changed their minds about becoming [or not becoming] doctors, for better or worse.) </p>
<p>Also, I think MedPrep I is a prerequisite for MedPrepII, which, I believe, involves shadowing at a nearby hospital, a super important part of the pre-med process.</p>
<p>(oh and I think you get an email about signing up for it when you get to school. Your advisor can tell you who to contact about it too, I’m sure. It’s not through webSTAC like all your other courses though.)</p>
<p>[The</a> MedPrep Program | Preparing You for a Life in Medicine](<a href=“http://medprep.wustl.edu/]The”>http://medprep.wustl.edu/)</p>
<p>There’s a registration form. Searching is hard @2nd poster.</p>
<p>If I’m already planning to take physics, Chem, Calc I, Writing 101 and a Focus Seminar, would adding MedPrep be difficult to handle?</p>
<p>Probably, yeah.</p>
<p>I disagree. You sit in class for 2 hours a week on a wednesday, how is that in any way difficult? If you’re really considering going to medical school, you’ll be interested in 90% of the lecture material anyway, so it won’t seem like normal class.</p>
<p>He’s already taking 18 units (4+5+3+3+3) which is already on the very high end for a freshman. I’m by no means saying it’s difficult, it’s just a heavy schedule for first semester. If he wants to sit in class for 20 hours a week first semester, and thinks he can do it, then by all means go ahead. None of the classes themselves are very difficult, but I don’t recommend more than 16 units to any first semester freshman.</p>
<p>Almost half of premed students quit premed before they graduate. I’d recommend leaving medprep for 2nd year (despite the website saying to take it early as possible). I haven’t taken the class, but that makes a lot more sense to me.</p>
<p>They say it’s designed to be doable for schedules at all difficulties. The only reason I haven’t taken it is because I’ve had classes at the same time, first BME, then chem lab.</p>
<p>I agree with marcdvl.</p>
<p>Penguinclassics, you DO realize that Chem at Wash U is two separate classes, right? Because you’re talking about taking six classes and possibly adding a seventh.</p>
<p>Gen Chem and Chem Lab are both difficult and time-consuming. I don’t know which physics course you’re taking. Physics 198 is very time-consuming. Physics 117 might not be as bad, but both have a lab section which takes up some time. Calc 1 will have weekly homeworks and three lectures a week. It could turn out to be easy, but you’ve never taken any calculus course before and you may find it very difficult. Writing 1 is also very time-consuming, obviously. I don’t know about the seminar, but that’s a sixth class on top of what will be five difficult and time-consuming courses. Those five would be more than sufficient for most freshmen; some would probably even push Writing 1 back to a different semester. Seven classes in one semester, even for a freshman, seems almost ludicrous to me. You’ll have NO free time.</p>
<p>I think the six classes in themselves might be difficult to manage, but I doubt medprep, a class with no outside work, would make or break a schedule.</p>
<p>I also took medprep I in addition to an 18 unit course load, in addition to working 12 hours a week at a work study/research position. So in my experience, it is absolutely possible. Granted, I was a second semester freshman at the time. But I had (and still have) worse study skills and dedication than the average WashU student, so its not like I was much better off than the average incoming freshman in that department.</p>
<p>Like I said before, if it is something that the student is genuinely interested in, it will not feel like a class. I completely agree with DJEureka, adding medprep to that schedule will not make or break it. </p>
<p>Penguin, if this really worries you, just leave it for another semester. I don’t think any freshman would get into medprep II second semester (enrollment is based off of seniority), so there’s no harm in moving medprep I back to second semester, or even later.</p>
<p>Thanks for the link (and the sarcasm lol) marcdvl. I’ve seen it before, but the registration seemed to be for only current freshmen, sophs, jrs and srs, not incoming freshmen… someone correct me if I’m wrong though. I asked a friend of mine (who took the course as a freshman) and she said she remembered doing it through her advisor, but I just wanted some other input.</p>
<p>I assume you need permission to register first, so only after you do an Artsci weekend or get advisor permission (at orientation, assuming you’re artsci). Your advisor may or may not be able to manually enroll you.</p>
<p>MedPrep is a fun course and for me it was more of a study break, so it shouldn’t be that bad.</p>
<p>And to people who are taking physics and are considering either 117 or 197, take 197 even though it might be more work. It’s much easier to get a better grade in that course. The professor is a lot better, the tests are fairly easy compared to the homework questions and you basically get unlimited time on tests (you start either at 6:00 or 6:30pm and can continue up to midnight lolz).</p>
<p>Can2010, this has been discussed a lot. Physics 197 is probably the way to go, but there are five professors teaching it next year and at least one of them is very bad.</p>
<p>It’s not only the professor; the structure of physics 117 itself is flawed.
Didn’t know that many professors were teaching it though; I thought only a few professors were transitioning. I guess they are revamping the whole physics curriculum :)</p>
<p>I also found the textbooks taught me more than the professors did. The lectures for me was more to get me interested in physics, but a lot of the lecture stuff were far more difficult that the material covered in the tests (ex. a lot of proofs). So in all, the quality of the professor in 197 wouldn’t factor in as much as the textbooks are very well written and as long as you do the reading, understand it, and do the homework, I don’t see people having too much trouble.</p>