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What are the courses that tend to give and weed out the Pre Med Kids??? Does it vary from school to school or are they same everywhere??? How can one prepare to do well in these weeder courses???
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Weed Out classes REALLY depend on the school and the teacher.
But generally its Organic Chemistry that pre meds mess up in.
My plan to avoid this is to take APs for every pre req so when i take them in college its basically a review with some new info.
A nice plus is my school offers College level Sociology and Organic Chemistry
But generally its Organic Chemistry that pre meds mess up in.
My plan to avoid this is to take APs for every pre req so when i take them in college its basically a review with some new info.
A nice plus is my school offers College level Sociology and Organic Chemistry
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My school offers AP Chem, AP Bio, and AP Physics C, AP Physics B. honors physics, and honors organic chemistry well those are the classes I'm interested in taking after junior year but My school does't offer AP Organic Chem, but has a honors Organic Chem. Next year will be a junior and am taking honors chem after that I will have to make a decision on which of the following aboves to take senior year.
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Ochem is probably the only true weed-out class imo. Your other pre-reqs are probably weed-out courses but if you have decent study habits you most likely won't even notice it's a weed-out class until you start seeing people dropping.
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It varies not only by school, but by person. A lot of premeds will bitch and moan about organic chem, when in reality if you have any capacity for puzzles and critical thinking you'll find the entire class simple. Others, albeit of the less abundance i.e people like me, tend to find gen chem 2 and physics to be significantly bigger weed out courses as they required you to actively use math and remember equations as opposed to understanding basic principles and applying them.
Anyway, it's not difficult to do well in these courses. They are weed out courses only because they weed out people who literally have no capacity for understanding science or critical thinking skills and as such are maladapted for medicine.
Anyway, it's not difficult to do well in these courses. They are weed out courses only because they weed out people who literally have no capacity for understanding science or critical thinking skills and as such are maladapted for medicine.
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Ochem isn't an AP.
I'll be taking AP Psych, Aice Sociology, AP Chem, Aice Chem(OCHEM) AP Biology
AP Physics B . Honors Anatomy and Physiology, AP CALC AB, AP Eng lang & Lit
AP Stats
^ ALL my pre reqs right there 🙂))
college will be a bit easier since I'll have a good foundation for the pre reqs
4.0 gpa here i come
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Aren't you going to be a sophomore?
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Never hurts to plan ahead.
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Well i began that sentence with "My school offers" but then i thought, what does it matter that my school offers them if i don't take them. So i edited.
and yeah I like to plan ahead
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I highly recommend you take AP Chem, Bio, Stat, and Calc in high school. Also at the same time explore the AP non-sciences and culture yourself.
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Nothing wrong with it. Just saying when I was a sophomore in HS, I wanted to be the Ceo/founder of a weapons manufacturing company, get captured by terrorists, and fight my way out with an arc reactor powered suit.
...I still want to do that a little bit.
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Yeah I'm taking so many meaningless APs to explore my interests further but im pretty sure this is what i want to do.👍
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I took every AP my school offered - besides AP Studio Art. I would say that if you candle handle the work load, you should totally challenge yourself and take all the "meaningless" APs you can. The worst thing that will happen is you'll learn more than you would in a normal class... and on the flip side, you may earn college credit. It's a win-win. Have fun and do well!
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Well i think i used the wrong words as they aren't "meaningless" just they probably won't benefit me much after high school besides probably for Gen Ed reqs
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That's a pretty huge benefit. It will free up your schedule to take classes you're interested in, you could graduate early, get a master's early... there are many options depending on your AP credit. Also, AP chemistry and biology classes will give you some pretty solid background in your prereqs.
Edit: If you want an ACS-certified chemistry, physics, or math degree, add AP calc and AP physics to biology and chemistry.
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If you're a bio major don't bother taking AP physics, it's unnecessary and you'll forget the majority of it as you'll only take the college course 3 years later. Hell, I took it a year ago and I think the only thing I remembered afterward was how to do a freebody diagram.
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In my experience, just as many people botch physics as organic. For you guys, I'm putting money on biochemistry being the new course that thins the premed herd. I remember handing in my final for biochem, looking back at the rest of the class still working to see half the girls in the room crying. Can't say I saw that for either organic or physics (for those two is usually closer to a quarter). Oh and the only APs I took in high school were Latin, US History, Calc, and Psych and I pulled a 3.9 in my prereqs. So don't fuss over what to take too much.
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To be honest, most of it is effort. All of my friends who struggled in these courses never studied that much considering it's designed to be a weedout course. There's nothing complicated about organic, you just have to study it enough that you can remember all the different combinations of how stuff reacts. Ditto for physics, the key to physics is to just keep doing practice problems.
When you're at introductory level sciences, repetition is pretty much all you need to succeed. Just put in the time.
When you're at introductory level sciences, repetition is pretty much all you need to succeed. Just put in the time.
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science courses. best way to prepare: go in w/ a solid foundation. get on google, buy old textbooks and just start laying some basics down before you set foot in the science classes. if I could be in high school again, i wish someone would have really pressed that on me. now I'm almost a junior in college, and I have to go back and re-do some basics before picking up again 👎
