<p>anyone from Brown here that can give me insights of how the pre-med in Brown is?
I’m looking to transfer there and i really want to know what the program is like.
Is there something that makes it different?</p>
<p>Pre-med is just a set of required courses needed for MCAT preparation and medical admission. These courses are offered at just about every college and University in the nation and, at a certain point, they all teach the same material and should prepare you adequately–especially at Brown.</p>
<p>While some schools offer an actual pre-med major, Brown does not. There are a great variety of pre-med students at Brown - my sophomore year roommate is an English major who’s completing the pre-med requirements. Some are more intense than others, in many ways. Some won’t take statistics because few med schools require them (I personally feel that an understanding of basic statistics is important for a doctor, but I’m no med school, and that’s not the most important course). Some take orgo 1 and/or orgo 2 at a local college because of the reputation of Brown’s courses as being tough. Others will take as many courses as they can freshman year and major in bio or chem. Some freak out substantially more than others.</p>
<p>Others who have taken the courses could speak better about them than I could, but Brown combines what it calls 2 semesters of gen chem into one course Chem 33. If you’re transferring, what you’ll have on your transcript and what you’ll need to take will vary, but 33 is what students with a high school chemistry background place into. Following that are orgo I and II, 35 and 36. The former is offered spring only, and the latter is offered fall only. For whatever reason, people seem to worry more about 35 than 36. I don’t know anything about the bio courses for premed, but the physics sequence premeds use most is 3-4 (PHYS0030 and PHYS0040), an almost non-calculus physics course. In the time I spent helping a pre-med with the material, I found the problem sets to be tedious and not particularly worthwhile; one hoping to actually get a good physics background instead of just fulfilling a requirement and prepping for the MCATs might do well to consider 5 instead of 3.</p>