<p>I’m a current student here, but I just want to get some feedback what other students think is the easiest way to fulfill the science requirement? I am between environmental science and astronomy. Thoughts?</p>
<p>My daughter opted for astronomy and really enjoyed the class. She is NOT a math/science person. but she felt that the astronomy class was fascinating and that she was learning more in that class than the others. She took the class from Laura Kay. </p>
<p>I don’t know about “easiest”. I had the sense that the course was not particularly easy. My daughter earned an A the first semester but opted for the Pass/D/Fail option for spring semester. She told me that she had a heavy course load and was not worried about her ability to earn an A, but thought she would enjoy the astronomy class more and get more out of it if she didn’t have to worry about her grade. (That was the only time she took the Pass option during her time at Barnard.)</p>
<p>My D went with astronomy. She wishes she had gone P/D/F with the first class and did P/D/F the second time (taking it now). She likes the class material but has been worried about her ability to to earn a decent grade. I don’t know if that would have been different with earth science. </p>
<p>My D (graduated in 2009) did not consider herself to be a “math/science” person either. so she chose Psychology as the “least science-y” of the sciences. But then decided she REALLY loved neuroscience and ended up taking extra semester(s) of things like calculous and statistics and organic chem. 
She is now working on her PhD. So beware. Those Barnard folks are tricky. </p>
<p>Actually psych is a somewhat tougher route to go because you the intro course wouldn’t satisfy the lab requirement. My daughter took an advanced psych course her first semester with special permission of the prof, as she had AP credit for psych – but she didn’t take the lab that goes with the course as there is a waitlist system to get into the psych labs. So all in all, not a particularly easy way to fill the science requirement … though of course quite useful for a student who decides to switch majors.</p>
<p>Yeah, my D was not necessarily looking for easy…just not what she then considered to be some of the more “intense” fields of science (physics, biosciences, for example). Going in to school she had absolutely no interest in any of those. I remember discussing with her how thrilled she was to only have to take one more math class….</p>
<p>That one intro to psych course changed everything for her! </p>