<p>i hate learning about phenols and benzene rings. ahh.</p>
<p>The entire Aerospace major was a weed-out.. But here are the courses that lead the pack:</p>
<p>The biggest "weed-out" aerospace courses at Georgia Tech were "Aeroelasticity", "Virtual Work", and "Vibrations and Systems Analysis." They make O Chem, DFQ, Emag, and Calculus look real, real, easy.</p>
<p>In grad school it was Advanced Propulsion and those awful theoretical math courses (linear algebra, vector calculus..etc)</p>
<p>PChem is way too far along in most chem majors to be a weed out class. </p>
<p>It will vary from school definately. But in General it should be a class that is primarily taken by froshes and sophs and can be a real *****.</p>
<p>At Kansas, Western Civ is a class almost everyone in the Arts&Sciences college takes - depending on the prof, it can rough.</p>
<p>At Nebraska, if you are a biochem or chem major/minor analytical chem is disgusting...the first three lab periods are spend calibrating pipettes, and you are graded on your percent error for each lab. Bio 101 b/c of the lab is also a classic pre-med weed out at Nebraska - the lab reports are ridiculous and graded really hard by most of the TA's. Some people will get lucky and find an easy TA and get through with no problem.</p>
<p>I got a question for you all. What happens to those who were weeded? Do they change majors or do they flunk out and attend an easier university? For sure, they lose financial aid.</p>
<p>Most of those who are "weeded" just change their majors. Some might flunk out (but that would probably indicate an issue other than just difficult classes). Financial aid is generally unrelated to grades--it's merit aid that they would lose, if their grades are low enough.</p>
<p>Humanities weed-out classes depend on the person. I'd imagine that foreign languages are the most common.</p>
<p>There generally aren't that many humanities courses as they don't really have a progression. Ie: often you don't have to take some prereq in order to take "the next class".</p>
<p>But yeah, orgo is definitely a big one at most schools. As others have said, it is a tough class made even tougher by the fact that so many people taking it are premeds.</p>
<p>Orgo is taken sophomore year here--yeah premed, pre pharmacy, its tough. Thats when many students end up changing their majors...</p>