<p>someone who's there already or knows someone there...
can you please give me a quick overview?</p>
<p>I’m curious about the general chemistry requirement for pre-med.</p>
<p>It says a year of general chemistry with lab is required. So, for pre-med, if someone takes intensive general chemistry (which is only one semester), they would be required to take another semester of another general chemistry course? Or, would how intensive general chem. supposedly equals two semesters of general chem mean that intensive general chem is enough to meet the one year general chem requirement?</p>
<p>I had the same question when I took the class, and I think the answer is yes, it counts. (Well, it’d better.) Otherwise it wouldn’t be offered as a valid option on the page with all the different pre-med tracks (available on the Columbia website somewhere). Also, when I went to see Megan Rigney at the pre-professional office, she didn’t say there were any problems with my taking intensive gen chem. So you can just take the one-semester class and the associated lab the following semester.</p>
<p>Hummingbird, can you be a little more specific with what you’re interested in? There isn’t really a “program” at Columbia; the pre-med track is just a bunch of pre-reqs that people have to take in their first two or three years. Do you want to know when people take what? Whether there’s cutthroat competition here?</p>
<p>i’d like more information on the “pre-med track” and how it compares to other programs (i.e. premed at upenn or PLME at brown, etc.)</p>
<p>also, whether all those awful stories about columbia are true (crime, cutthroat people as you say, the majority of people being snobs/elitists)</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>You can’t compare pre-med at Columbia to PLME. PLME students are already accepted to med school right from high school.</p>