<p>Hi!</p>
<p>I was just wondering if anyone knew about the weed out classes at U of M! Orientation is coming up, and I know I'll be meeting with an advisor...but I feel like that's just going to be a brief sit down.</p>
<p>I was planning on taking either general biology or chemistry and not transferring my biology credits....</p>
<p>would I be setting myself up for failure :)?</p>
<p>I don’t go to U of M but usually for most colleges the general bio and general chemistry seem to be the weeder classes. Honestly I would only take liberals your first semester at college, especially at U of M. College is such a fun experience, especially the first semester where it becomes very easy to procrastinate classes. Take easier classes so you are not bogged down with much work and you learn about the different opportunities U of M has to offer both academically and extra curricular. Then add on the science classes.</p>
<p>D. did not go to U of M either. She went to another state public. Her first Bio was very well known 'weed out killer". She took both Bio and Gen. Chem in freshmant year and her Gen Chem was very easy, she ended up working for prof as an SI for all years in UG.<br>
Talk to current students. they will point out which class is a killer. But what is a point of this knowledge? You still have to take it. D. was advised not to skip first Bio after having “A” and “5” in AP Bio. Good that she listened, class went thru AP material in first 2 weeks and then they moved on. It was taught by 3 profs in class room at every single lecture at the same time, each teaching his own specialty in this one class. It also had a killer lab with ridicoulously time consuming reports. Anyway, everybody in Honors dorm, even kids in different majors knew about class and knew not to take it if major did not require it. As a rule, D. took 2 difficult science classes each semester in UG. Freshman year, it was just one - Bio.<br>
Make sure to get used to academic overload, it is so much harder and so much more of it in Med. School anyway, there is no comparison at all to UG.
As I said, talk to current pre-meds at U of M.</p>