<p>Not working hard, however, would not go well with chemistry or biology. In physics you can get away with doing 20 practice problems per week (double the assigned homework for most classes) and get an easy A; people that do each homework assignment and get all problems right without looking at the answer book first can at least get a B+. Each problem should take 10 minutes, maximum, if you understood the concepts. The 10 minutes may seem like eternity because you are thinking hard, but it’s just 10 minutes, and when you’re done you’re done and know you’ve accumulated some knowledge. So 3 hours on physics per week. On the other hand, while Chemistry is tolerable due to having some (but not many outside of physical chemistry) calculations, it is more memorizing than physics… and worst of all, you’ll eventually get to Biology, which will require hardcore memorizing of several hours per day (not per week), and not even know if you “know it all”. Also, Biology is dependent on the whims of the teacher on what they test, while Physics is not; the teacher can’t change the laws of physics after all.</p>
<p>A physics major is one of the hardest majors – plus Soledad doesn’t have any math beyond Calculus 1. Coming out of high school, she didn’t have strong enough math skills to test into Chem 1. (The test they give is basic math skills up through trigonometry) She would have alot of catching up to do. Why do you think just because you can’t do something no one else can? Clearly you are the type who is good at mathematical reasoning and logic but not great at other types of learning. Soledad already said she breezed through her bio classes, she should stick with that.</p>
<p>Breezing through the first few bio classes is NOTHING. it is not an indicator of how well you will do later. General biology is nothing like Development, Signal Transduction and Immunology. The sheer amount of memorizing is like reading a dictionary and being tested on it.</p>