Hi guys,
I am currently in a cc (philosophy major) and my councelor told me to take Calc 1 and 2 as a premed requirement together with calc based Physics. This semester I am taking Calc 1 and Chem 102 (lecture and lab) and philosophy and both chemistry and Calc 1 has been kicking my butt in terms of work I need to do. I just passed precalc last semester with a B (but barely). I just spend sometime googling and it seems that my councillor was wrong and calc 2 isn't a prereq and so is calc 1? But stats seems more important. (please tell me if I am wrong!)
I want to protect my gpa and focus all my attention on Chem 102 but I am a couple of days passed my school's deadline of dropping the course without a W and I already have a couple and would like to avoid more. It seems like my options are:
- Talk to my math department and see if I can change internally from Calc to stats without W notation. (I don't know if this is possible but I know with my precalc the option was given to go from precalc to precalc A (which was only half of precalc) after the deadline of dropping without W had passed
- Take both chem 102 and calc 1 and maybe take a gpa hit on both. (My firsts exams are next week, but I don't feel prepared at all and I am so lost in both lectures)
- Drop Calc 1 and take the W (again, already have a couple of W's so this is not my favourite option)
-Switch Calc to a pass/ no pass so I can at least not focus about the letter grade. I just don't know if this can be done/if it is a good idea/ if it would bring me trouble with transferring/ will it still counts as credits taken towards IGETC (applying this cycle to UC's)/ how will these be seen by med adcoms?
What should I do in this situation. I am terrified of failing chem 102, and I don't feel like my councelors know what they are doing.
I am currently in a cc (philosophy major) and my councelor told me to take Calc 1 and 2 as a premed requirement together with calc based Physics. This semester I am taking Calc 1 and Chem 102 (lecture and lab) and philosophy and both chemistry and Calc 1 has been kicking my butt in terms of work I need to do. I just passed precalc last semester with a B (but barely). I just spend sometime googling and it seems that my councillor was wrong and calc 2 isn't a prereq and so is calc 1? But stats seems more important. (please tell me if I am wrong!)
I want to protect my gpa and focus all my attention on Chem 102 but I am a couple of days passed my school's deadline of dropping the course without a W and I already have a couple and would like to avoid more. It seems like my options are:
- Talk to my math department and see if I can change internally from Calc to stats without W notation. (I don't know if this is possible but I know with my precalc the option was given to go from precalc to precalc A (which was only half of precalc) after the deadline of dropping without W had passed
- Take both chem 102 and calc 1 and maybe take a gpa hit on both. (My firsts exams are next week, but I don't feel prepared at all and I am so lost in both lectures)
- Drop Calc 1 and take the W (again, already have a couple of W's so this is not my favourite option)
-Switch Calc to a pass/ no pass so I can at least not focus about the letter grade. I just don't know if this can be done/if it is a good idea/ if it would bring me trouble with transferring/ will it still counts as credits taken towards IGETC (applying this cycle to UC's)/ how will these be seen by med adcoms?
What should I do in this situation. I am terrified of failing chem 102, and I don't feel like my councelors know what they are doing.