Should I take advanced chem: materials chem or general chem I?

<p>I will be a senior in high school and I have been accepted into the Princeton University high school program (I can take a Princeton course during my school year). I truly wanted to take organic chemistry (CHM 303) but it just doesn't fit into our school's new block schedule. It seems that the only chem classes that I can take are general chem I (CHM 201) or advanced general chemistry:Materials Chemistry (CHM 207). Although I took chemistry back in my sophomore year and do not remember much of it, I don't really want to take the general chem course as that would probably repeat much of the AP syllabus, and I really would like to do something difference. </p>

<p>Basically, I want to take the materials chem class, but before I definitively select it, I would like to learn more about its difficulty versus the general chem class. I am going to have a very busy senior year schedule with ap french, ap calc bc, ap physics c, ap literature, and us II in addition to the chem class.</p>

<p>Is materials chem worth taking? How does it compare in terms of difficulty?</p>

<p>Thank you very much in advance for any advice!</p>

<p>I haven’t actually taken either class, but I’ll try to help. 207 is slightly different from 201 because 207 is more geared toward engineering applications. The courses use the same textbook though, so I can’t say how different they actually are. None of the course reviews on the student course guide say 207 has an above-average workload (they range from a few “a lot less” to mostly “average” workload rating). 201 has worse reviews than 207 and apparently has a higher workload, mostly from longer problem sets/labs. So if you’re more interested in 207 over 201, 207 definitely looks like the better option.</p>