<p>Chemistry
Chemistry Lab
Psychology
Philosophy
Calculus</p>
<p>This will be 15 credits. The minimum credits to take is 12 and the maximum is 19. Is this good enough, or should I remove philosophy?</p>
<p>That's probably below average in terms of freshman year difficulty for a premed.</p>
<p>i don't think that is below average??? I think it depends what undergraduate school you are going to?</p>
<p>University of Virginia. The average number of credits taken is 15, so I don't think it's below average.</p>
<p>i think for your first semester 15 credits is fine. You don't want to overload yourself.</p>
<p>Not in terms of credits, but you really should take intro bio w/ lab along with gen chem w/ lab (unless you're placing out of intro bio). This allows you to take orgo and physics your sophomore year and finish your premed prereqs in 2 years which I think is optimal. Whatever the case, it is definitely NOT an overwhelming schedule.</p>
<p>Here was my schedule freshman year:
Multivariable calc
Intro bio w/ lab
Honors gen chem w/ lab
Spanish 200 level
PE
(15 academic credits + 1 PE credit)</p>
<p>Linear algebra w/ differential equations
Intro bio w/ lab
Honors gen chem w/ lab
Writing class
PE
(15 academic credits + 1 PE credit)</p>
<p>Overall, probably slightly above average in terms of difficulty just as your schedule is probably slightly below average.</p>
<p>At my school (berkeley) very few people take bio and chem there first semester. Most people haved dazed's schedule exactly.</p>
<p>Well, at my school just about everyone takes bio and gen chem their freshman year. If they place out of intro bio, they take a upper level bio class in its place. And my school has a higher acceptance rate to med school than your school so I win! (j/k :)) </p>
<p>Like I said, I'm a proponent of finishing your premed prereqs after 2 years so you can start focusing on the MCAT's by the end of your sophomore year.</p>
<p>Considering that I'm an engineering major, my schedule will be pretty full for frosh year:</p>
<p>Calc
Bio (plus lab)
Gen Chem (plus lab)
Physics (plus lab)
Economics</p>
<p>yes i agree with nor cal guy that if you want to finish your pre-med classes in two years that you should take bio and chem together your first semester. Everyone in pre-med at Berkeley usually take 2.5, i guess thats why i suggested your schedule was fine.</p>
<p>NorCal guy im gonna guess your from let me guess.... Stanford. Am i right hahah :)</p>
<p>:S
Now that I think about it, is taking three labs tough?</p>
<p>yah three labs is a bit much...</p>
<p>Nope. I actually attend Cornell (I'm going to be a senior so I've been been through most of the premed stuff, taken the MCAT, etc.). The reason I like finishing prereqs by the end of your sophomore year is that you can spend an entire summer focusing on the MCAT and avoid having to study for it during the school year. Schoolwork at Berkeley, Cornell, and probably UVA is tough enough by itself without having to find time to study for the MCAT. </p>
<p>The new MCAT will be administered more times throughout the year but unless you finish your prereqs by the end of your sophomore year I don't see how you can avoid studying for the MCAT during the school year.</p>
<p>norcal, I think the optimum schedule is the one that allows an individual to get the best grades possible. For some people what you've described is doable, but I probably would have switched from premed - not because I couldn't do it, but because I would not have had the social life I needed (you'd be surprised how much college football takes up on my fall weekends - entire saturdays and sundays disappear, and when you go to Nebraska and are in a fraternity, skipping is just not an option) and I would have had to give up a lot of my co-curricular stuff to make it work. </p>
<p>And I know it's CC blasephemy but there is nothing wrong with going 5 years...I wish I would have gone for an extra semester or two.</p>
<p>Finally, the new June testing days I think fit the bill for getting in significant study time without too much time during the school year. It'll be just like the June LSAT.</p>
<p>Dazed, I think your schedule is perfect.</p>
<p>Except what I've described is the route taken by just about everyone I've met (intro bio + gen chem freshman year) at Cornell. My point is that the OP's schedule is def not overwhelming. At my school, it would be below average. Obviously not everyone takes multi var calc or linear algebra or honors gen chem like I did, but just about everyone I've met has taken some sort of bio together w/ gen chem their freshman year.</p>
<p>Any opinions on my 1st semester:</p>
<p>Bio (intro)- 4 units
Advanced/Org. Chem- 4 units
CHem Lab- 2 untis
Freshman Seminar- 4 units
English 101- 4 units
PE- 1 unit</p>
<p>you're classes' credit units are jacked up.</p>
<p>I agree with bigred, unless you have to stack it don't. I also go to a sports school, UCONN. We are good at basketball obviously so during the winter months days of the week, and weekends go to basketball. It killed my grades this year in our failed championship run, and probably will next year too. But I have some great experiences to talk about and great memories. I could have spent the time studying, but I didn't and I don't really regret it. At the same time I think you can do chem and bio in the same semester since I did it twice this year. You just have to space time properly and sacrifice social life at times.</p>
<p>I wasn;t asking whether anyone thought thwe units were messed up I was asking whether or not anyone thought I could handle it.</p>