<p>tone it down a notch, will ya’ guys?</p>
<p>The H changes aren’t extreme as they first appear. While Biochem is now required at only a small number of schools (~20, if I recall), all rumors in the press is that it will become mandatory in 3+ years for everyone. As a leader, H just wants to be out front, hoping to sway the other med schools (voters), and replace second semester of Organic with Biochem.</p>
<p>With the massive growth in biological knowledge, it is past time to review the Bio requirements for premed. (Do med schools care much about Enviro and the flora an fauna of Botany?) But colleges have figured that out awhile ago, and have already restructured their Bio curriculum – not for premed per se, but because of the volume of information. (At the current rate of knowledge growth, Campbell’s will be 3000 pages, or multiple volumes.) For example, Cornell announced two years ago that it was establishing a Comte to restructure its Frosh Bio courses. Other colleges have already done the same.</p>
<p>wrt: dropping Calc-based physics…H has probably realized that it is missing out on key recruits (URMs) that it might want in its class. Many large and public schools offer Algebra-based Physics to pre-health majors, and since many publics have poor advising, that is what the masses take. Thus, those students are currently ineligible to even apply to H.</p>