Ochem

[thedogisgreen]

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So apparently, Davis now requires the equivalent of 3 quarters of ochem lecture and 1 quarter lab... the previous cycle and all the years before, they only required 2 quarters, so that's all that I took when I was in school. Now that I'm graduated and working full time+, I can't really go back to my university to take classes. I looked into local community colleges and the prices for those are good, but there's no way it would work out time-wise with work since the lab is required concurrently, no exceptions...meaning four classes a week, no thank you! So that leaves online courses. The cheapest one I can find is Oregon State at $850ish. Anyone know of any that are cheaper or around the same price and self-paced?
This is a pretty hard situation to know what to do in, because I need the course to apply this year (need it complete by summer, I assume), but I haven't taken ochem in several years so I completely forgot everything from the first two quarters of it. Definitely will have a pretty hard time getting back into the swing of that, plus ochem was hell when I took it the first round through, so I'm not too thrilled about having to survive it again. Anyone else in this situation with the requirements change? 😕 Eek, as if there wasn't already enough stress finishing up applications!

 

[FutureDVM2016]

So apparently, Davis now requires the equivalent of 3 quarters of ochem lecture and 1 quarter lab... the previous cycle and all the years before, they only required 2 quarters, so that's all that I took when I was in school. Now that I'm graduated and working full time+, I can't really go back to my university to take classes. I looked into local community colleges and the prices for those are good, but there's no way it would work out time-wise with work since the lab is required concurrently, no exceptions...meaning four classes a week, no thank you! So that leaves online courses. The cheapest one I can find is Oregon State at $850ish. Anyone know of any that are cheaper or around the same price and self-paced?
This is a pretty hard situation to know what to do in, because I need the course to apply this year (need it complete by summer, I assume), but I haven't taken ochem in several years so I completely forgot everything from the first two quarters of it. Definitely will have a pretty hard time getting back into the swing of that, plus ochem was hell when I took it the first round through, so I'm not too thrilled about having to survive it again. Anyone else in this situation with the requirements change? 😕 Eek, as if there wasn't already enough stress finishing up applications!

Luckily, (or is it... lol) my school requires us to take 3 quarters of Ochem to get our animal science degree, so I will be in the clear from that. I'm sorry you have to reach back in the cobwebs for a new class... Ochem is Hell... good luck!

 

[tigerkitten]

Need it complete by spring -- that changed too. Grr! I'm so glad I took two courses this past summer instead of believing the admissions person who told me summer 2011 would be acceptable. By now, it isn't, and I'd have lost a year if I'd gone with the easier/calmer option.

Where are you located? Some community colleges offer the lab adjacent to the lecture, so you'd have only three days a week to fuss with, and if you have flexibility in your job you might be able to swing that.

Good luck!!

 

[thedogisgreen]

Completed by spring as in we can take it spring semester, right? Ugh, that's frustrating that summer isn't even an option. I unfortunately don't have much flexibility with work, and the community college classes are lab 2 days a week and lecture 2 days a week. It totals 9 hours of class a week plus commute time, and then studying and lab reports for the subject I absolutely loathe... don't know if I can manage that. I contacted the community college and they absolutely won't let me go without the lab, ugh, and other community colleges would be too far of a drive, haven't even checked their options. Probably worth the money to do an online course, though of course if it ends up that I get in elsewhere but not there, then suffering through ochem again wouldn't even be for much. I wish the requirements would just have stayed the same, or I had known earlier! Haha sorry, rant rant rant!
I've found a few other ochem courses online - Oklahoma State and Michigan, but Oregon definitely seems to be the cheapest.

 

[tigerkitten]

Yes, for Davis you can take it spring semester but not summer. Here's the web page with the update:

http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/studentprograms/subpages/application_updates.html

Ochem is definitely a grueling subject, and bringing the topics back from misty memory will be all kinds of no fun. I sympathize with wishing you'd known earlier! I took three quarters of it only because I knew I would be applying to a few schools. Thank goodness I did. I wish you'd been as fortunate. Davis' requirements changes this year have definitely thrown a few people for a loop!

 

[that redhead]

I would quadruple-check that an online course will count toward credit for that pre-requisite before signing up and paying for it.

 

[thedogisgreen]

Frustrated. Just spoke to Davis and the Oregon course will cover the prereq, but all prereqs absolutely need to be done by Spring 2011 and there aren't any exceptions, they have the right to change their prerequisites whenever. This is such a frustrating arghhh situation, I would've taken ochem when I was in school had I known, but they stayed the same all the way through and then changed after I graduated. I'm going to have to buckle down like crazy to get through this course - need to refresh on the whole first semester of ochem too. Not looking forward to this at all. 🙁

 

[FutureDVM2016]

Frustrated. Just spoke to Davis and the Oregon course will cover the prereq, but all prereqs absolutely need to be done by Spring 2011 and there aren't any exceptions, they have the right to change their prerequisites whenever. This is such a frustrating arghhh situation, I would've taken ochem when I was in school had I known, but they stayed the same all the way through and then changed after I graduated. I'm going to have to buckle down like crazy to get through this course - need to refresh on the whole first semester of ochem too. Not looking forward to this at all. 🙁

Good luck! I'm sure you will do great!!

 

[thedogisgreen]

Found out today I don't have to do ochem after all. So excited!!!!

 

[FutureDVM2016]

Found out today I don't have to do ochem after all. So excited!!!!

LOL!!!!! yay!!!! 👍