P-Chem or Quantitative Analysis??

[JJW1010]

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So that's the question. I have the choice of either or for my degree in Microbiology, and I was wondering what most of the other pre-meds have taken and which would look better to the adcoms. I'm thinking probably physical chem. but not really sure.

Thanks in advance

 

[Hari Kari]

I've taken both.

Do you like physics or gen chem?

Answer that and you've made your choice.

 

[LadyWolverine]

I think I'd rather gouge my own eye out and eat it before I'd willingly subject myself to PChem again.

But, then again, you're probably a masochist. You are pre-med, after all.

 

[KAI1927]

Quantitative was a pretty boring, a very statistics-like class. Pretty much like stats, with a little bit of gen chem invloved, it actually would be beneficial in analyzing scientific papers and interpreting data. P-chem was not a fun course for me, I am really not a math person, and my teacher made it very calculus based with very little else. I really did not like it, but that could have been just my teacher. I think quant would be much easier and more applicable to medical school and your career.

 

[BozoSparky]

So that's the question. I have the choice of either or for my degree in Microbiology, and I was wondering what most of the other pre-meds have taken and which would look better to the adcoms. I'm thinking probably physical chem. but not really sure.

Thanks in advance

I remember having a fairly hardcore acid/base component to my quant. course. That might serve you better as a physician than thermo or quantum mechanics. Right now, I think medicine is more chemistry than physics.

 

[ShyRem]

I'd rather take Pchem again. Much more enjoyable than quant analysis.

And no, I'm not kidding. I really *liked* pchem.

 

[KAI1927]

I'd rather have a prostate exam from Andre the Giant than take P-Chem again.

 

[ShyRem]

 

[JJW1010]

lol, thanks guys
guess it'll probably be quant for me then. I think I'll go talk to my pre-med advisor just to make sure she agrees.

 

[OctoDoc]

Truth be told, neither class will be of much use to you in med school or beyond. Take the course that you'd enjoy more.

P-Chem, if you like math, theory, and rote problem solving. P-Chem shows you how many half truths you were told in gen chem. Pretty much everything in gen chem is a half truth or a limiting case of something more general. I liked this class because I like to know how and why things are the way they are. But P-Chem is tough!

Quant, if you like precision and/or creativity in problem solving. By the time you get done with this class, you will be irritated whenever you see statistics used incorrectly or in a devious way (i.e. by marketing people). I liked this class because the chemistry problems were challenging in a thinking way, not in a grueling math way (the latter is more P-Chem).