<li>Organic Chemistry </li>
<li>Calculus II</li>
<li>Physics II (Calc Based)</li>
<li>Intermediate Accounting I-II</li>
<li>General Chemistry II</li>
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<p>what are some others, for all majors?</p>
<p>Organic and Physics II are hard. I would also add Physical Chemistry, and Thermodynamics probably.</p>
<p>At my school people seem to repeat Physics (1-3) and Calculus (1-3) the most.</p>
<p>At my school, there really aren't any major "weed out" classes that all students have to take. Each major does have it's own "weed out", though.</p>
<p>Could someone list the weed out for these disciplines?
-Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Economics</p>
<p>Definitely Physics II and ORGO.</p>
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<p>Transport Phenomena, Organic and P chem for Chem E. Thermo for ME. Students go TO econ when they are weeded out of other majors.</p>
<p>I am considering Mechanical/Electrical so I don't have to take 3 years of Chemistry as a Chem. Eng major. So then I only have to endure Thermo, right? BTW, the Cornell guy also said Thermo was hardest (he was EE). We are doing Kinetics, Ksp, etc, in CHem right now and i ****ing hate it.</p>
<p>I think you've got the biggies already. Others probably vary from school to school. At Duke, intro public policy is a weeder course. I don't think econometrics is a weeder in the traditional sense of the word, but it is a very tough course that's now required for all econ majors in an attempt to cut down on their numbers.</p>
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I am considering Mechanical/Electrical so I don't have to take 3 years of Chemistry as a Chem. Eng major. So then I only have to endure Thermo, right? BTW, the Cornell guy also said Thermo was hardest (he was EE). We are doing Kinetics, Ksp, etc, in CHem right now and i ****ing hate it.
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<p>We don't have 'weeder' courses at my school, but there are certainly several other challenging courses that the MechEs take besides thermo.</p>
<p>Are their such things as Humanities weeders?</p>
<p>Yea its called high school.</p>
<p>Econ is probably the hardest and most marketable of the liberal/humanities (at top schools). For example, Econ at Uchicago is quite demanding and highly marketable. Similarily, Econ at Wharton/Carnegie Mellon is IN the business school which is highly coveted and reputable.</p>
<p>Diffie q's, thermal physics :eek:</p>
<p>Double E .</p>
<p>lol diff eq's ;)</p>
<p>and thermodynamics, orgo, honors chem if you're a chem major, etc.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Why is organic chemistry so hard?</p>
<p>Sheer amounts of memorization. Plus, it's a required premed course, so everyone in there is competing neck and neck for the A. Leads to a curve with a high median thereby failing people who might otherwise recieved a C.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>orgo is just memorization... most science people are good at memorization.</p>
<p>most non science subjects don't have weed out courses, because everyone and their mom wants to be premed, even though they're awful at the required subjects.</p>
<p>If you're good at your subject, you won't get weeded out, bottom line.</p>
<p>Most science people are good at memorization? Where do you get that notion? I seem to get an impression that most hard science people (engineering, math or physics people) are much better quantitatively than at memorization.</p>