<p>Right, you are in Newcomb-Tulane College as an undecided. I am not sure why they even bother with that for an immunization form, but anyway, that is what you are until you decide.</p>
<p>About advisors…</p>
<p>You will be given a summer advisor soon, who will help you with any questions you might have over the summer. If you go to orientation and register for classes there, you will be paired up with an advisor in the school that covers a major with which you express an interest. After that, you will be given an advisor based on the school you are in. Once you declare a major, you are given an additional advisor, an advisor major. So, IIRC, after summer, you have your advisor from the school you are in, your major advisor, and if you are in honors an honors advisor.</p>
<p>asseenontv: this is the first time I have posted here, but I have read your questions of the past several months and just wanted to add a few words. My D just finished her freshman year at Tulane. We are from the DC area and she also has close friends at UMD. If you would like someone to ask questions, talk to, find out more, I’m sure she would be happy to talk with you. She loves Tulane and had a great freshman year. Her one hesitation about going to Tulane was her worry that there would not be enough racial/cultural diversity there. She’s caucasian, but that is a huge issue to her, coming from DC area. If Tulane had a huge racism issue I am positive I would have heard about it, because she would not have wanted to remain there. Her new friends seem to be a diverse group racially, ethnically, geographically, and SES. Tulane does incredible outreach into New Orleans, and incorporates the city and the impact of Katrina into many of its classes, making it a unique place to go to school. Congrats on being brave enough to try something new and intimidating: the most wonderful experiences come out of those kind of big steps away from the familiar. My D is not usually on College Confidential, so if you would like to correspond with her let me know and I will ask her to check in with you here.</p>
<p>so does anyone know anything about laptops? should i get one down there, or beforehand? i know some ppl get laptops that come along with an ipod or itouch</p>
<p>I’d order the laptop online, through the college (they have student discounts) and have it shipped to your home, before you go - just one less thing to have to buy when you get there. Plus</p>
<p>hey thanks for the reply…i think u were a little cut off?</p>
<p>also, does anyone know anything about Uhaul and Tulane’s partnership in shipping stuff down there?</p>
<p>my friends brother just got in to Tulane aand he’s happy</p>
<p>I’d order the laptop online, through the college (they have student discounts) and have it shipped to your home, before you go - just one less thing to have to buy when you get there. Plus…</p>
<p>…you can get it set up the way you like in advance.</p>
<p>(sorry, hit the ‘post’ button too early, and just saw it now.</p>
<p>So i was interested in the creative scholars program, but is Global and Community health considered a science major?</p>
<p>I do not believe it is considered a science major. But to be 100% sure, find out who your advisor is, (although they should have contacted you already by e-mail. Be sure you are checking your Tulane e-mail) and ask them. I would phrase it as “I am planning on majoring in Global and Community Health. Am I eligible to apply for the Creative Premedical Scholars Program with that major?”</p>
<p>Let us all know what they say.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, students cannot major in anything in the school of public health if they want to apply for the creative scholars program.</p>
<p>Bummer. Oh well, I am sure you will do great and get in anyway.</p>
<p>i’m having so much trouble choosing courses for next year! there are so many things i want to take and i dont know how to satisfy major (Global & COmmunity Health) requirements, minor (Music) requirements, Honors courses, TIDES courses, math courses, sciences, foreign language, english, social sciences!</p>
<p>so far i have:</p>
<p>-orchestra (once a week)
-general bio
-literary NOLA (honors english course)
-adv french grammar and comp (honors course - not sure if im up to this level, but i got placed in it because i took french for 6 years)
-Intro the public health
-Performance Culture NOLA (TIDES) w/ Service hours
(-should i take a social sciences course?)</p>
<p>Total = 14 credits?! im aiming for 15-17 and i already have 6 classes…</p>
<p>my advisor told me if i want to keep premed an option, i should take chem instead of bio … but i dont like chem! and i took honors chem (and suffered) in junior year. I took ap bio this past year. </p>
<p>also, i didnt realize lit nola was an honors course…so i dunno if i should take that off … but then i wont have an eng course.</p>
<p>finally, i dont seem to have a math course yet…can i take that later?</p>
<p>Yes, you can take math any time before you graduate, as long as you satisfy the requirements for graduation. Although I suspect you have to take statistics for your major anyway. If you are in the Honors Program (I cannot remember if you are or not, but I think you are) then you need to take an honors course every semester anyway, I believe. So probably good to stick with the literary NOLA course. Besides, sounds like a great course! Well, you do have the French honors course, but stick with it anyway.</p>
<p>I agree with your advisor about chem though. You have to have it for med school, so might as well do it. TIDES and orchestra aren’t like other courses, so right now you are really at 4 courses (chem if you switch, literary NOLA, French, and intro PH) so you can fit in one more 3 hour course. Find something fun and not too terribly challenging that will fulfill a graduation requirement outside your major. Social science, as you say, or an intro history course, something like that.</p>
<p>It is not a requirement that students in the honors college take an honors class every semester. They have to take one each year. It is not a good idea to take two honors classes simultaneously, the workload is considerably more difficult and combined with the freshman year adjustment you will find this is perhaps more than you planned for. I have a sDS in the honors college and one honors class each semester is plenty. My suggestion would be to take whichever class tends to be large and opt for the honors version of this since the honors sections are capped at 20-25 students. An upper level French class is going to be small anyway.</p>
<p>Don’t go crazy with too many courses in your first semester, college is a lot different than high school particularly in terms of how much work you need to do outside of class. 12 hours is the minimum considered a ‘full course load’ and you’re over that. </p>
<p>As for pre-med, I believe most med schools require chemistry as well as biology, but for that you should check with a college advisor. Here is one link: [Tulane</a> Pre-Med Society](<a href=“http://tulanepremedsociety.blogspot.com/]Tulane”>http://tulanepremedsociety.blogspot.com/)</p>
<p>Med schools do require General Chem, most won’t even accept an AP placement out of it, from what I am told. They all require Organic Chemistry as well.</p>
<p>Thanks for the correction roamingcooks. My memory failed me there. I suppose it is a good idea to limit things your first semester, just keep in mind you have to average 15 hours a semester to graduate, unless you have AP credits.</p>
<p>thanks for all the feedback</p>
<p>so i was thinking…instead of taking honors french, im gonna take regular and i will take just one honors class, literary NOLA. </p>
<p>would it be that bad if i took chem second semester instead of first? i mean i will take it, but i dont feel ready to take it first semester</p>
<p>so this is what i have so far (again):</p>
<p>-Orchestra = 1
-Gen Bio + Lab = 4
-TIDES Performance Culture NOLA = 1
-Honors Lit NOLA = 3
-Adv French Grammar and Comp = 3
-Intro to Public Health = 3</p>
<p>Total = 15 Credits</p>
<p>and then for second semester, i made a very very rough draft?</p>
<p>· Orchestra = 1
· French 313 = 3
· Gen Chem + Lab = 4
· Sociology/Anthropology course = 3
· Stat for Scientists = 3
· SPHU102 – Cell, Individual, and Community= 3
o Total = 17 Credits</p>
<p>The problem you will run into is that Gen Chem is a 2 semester (Fall then Spring) sequence (Chem 107 and 108 for the course, Chem 117 and 118 for the lab portion), and they don’t offer Chem 107 in the Spring, or at least they didn’t this last year. I highly highly doubt that will change. The same kind of sequencing is true for Organic Chem also. I think you are still stuck with dropping bio for now (or French).</p>