<p>Any recommendations for a relatively manageable freshman year schedule (I don't want to screw up my GPA early on).
I got a five on Calc AB AP and I'm currently taking BC.</p>
<p>Major:
Either Econ or Pre-Pharmacy</p>
<p>Another question: Are there pharmacists/optometrists/dentists at Duke? I tend to only hear about doctors..</p>
<p>Dig around on Duke’s website and see if the individual departments have a “proposed” or “sample” curriculum for your majors. Also, you need to decide if you are going for a BA or a BS in econ. A BS might require a particular math sequence. Your majors are quite far apart so you may be better off trying to look for common courses across both fields.</p>
<p>Here is what was suggested for my son (not at Duke) to balance out his first semester work load.</p>
<p>*Econ 101 - most likely just a mid term and a final
*Public speaking - weekly speeches (no big crunch at the end)
*German 1 or 2 depending on placement results - you are almost forced to do daily work to stay on track.
*Freshman English - heavy reading and papers.</p>
<p>Technically the pre-med track is pre-health so if you were to get a pre-health advisor (pre-health isn’t a major, but rather a group of classes you take) I’m sure they could help you. If you are pre-med (pre-health) you are probably going to have a fairly demanding schedule 1st semester no matter what.</p>
<p>pre-health requirements are pretty straight forward.
i have a friend who is pre-dental, a friend who is pre vet, and the only differences are really the concentrations within(more for prevet/pharm(there is a pharm concentration in chem i think)) your major, which the pre-health dea(lynn white) could tell you much more about</p>
<p>but here are the basic health requirements</p>
<p>calc 1 and 2
physics 1 and 2
general chem 1 and 2
organic chem 1 and 2
2 biological based labs
and an english class</p>
<p>im pretty sure thats it.</p>
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<p>would anyone recommend this to a pre-health major? I am slightly interested in it and I recently received an email regarding it. thanks</p>
<p>Honestly, if you’re interested in the class/program and aren’t sure if you want to take it. You have two weeks of Add/Drop period once school starts(you can add or drop any class with pretty much no consequence). I have friends that are history majors and premed, so it really doesn’t matter what your major is, as long as you have all the necessary requirements. I couldn’t tell you much about the work load of a compsci major though.</p>
<p>Exactly how hard is it to overload with 5 classes? And can you do it in your first year?</p>
<p>I would not recommend it in your first semester, unless you’re taking a few joke classes (a few theater studies classes, chem83, psych11 or a couple 49s classes). And it all depends on why you are taking 5 classes as well. if you’re doing it to get ahead, save it til your second semester(unless you’re rushing/pledging) but if you need to to it to get reqs done if you’re double majoring it becomes almost necessary so you don’t get completely overwhelmed your last few years. </p>
<p>so doable, but not recommended.
I also think you need to get a dean’s approval to take more than 4.5 credits during your freshman year.</p>
<p>I’m trying to figure out if it’s feasible for me to double in econ and cs while getting the M&M certificate and ALSO be in focus, lol. I guess I should just be smart about picking my classes so that I cover a bunch of the reqs at once. I’m considering not doing focus or perhaps just shooting for a minor in cs.</p>
<p>I would recommend you get into a 49s class that covers something like an alp (TheaterStud49s)just to get that out of the way and you would only need one more. </p>
<p>but here is some stuff to look at. and you can cross check what you would need to take to get all of that. so average it out and figure out how many classes you would need to take each semester (don’t forget about the treqs either) and there’s always summer classes you can take to get ahead too, that is if you don’t get that awesome internship your first summer.</p>
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<p>just remember that you have plenty of time to figure out what you want to do.</p>
<p>why would anyone ever want to be a pharmacist? sorry, but i just cant understand…it’d be so…boring.</p>
<p>$$$ money money.</p>