University of Michigan pre-dents

[xcrunner88]

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Quick question for pre-dents at Michigan. I have taken Chemistry 130, Chemistry 125, Chemistry 126, and Chemistry 230. Is this all you need to fulfill the inorganic chemistry requirement of 8 credits? How did you complete the inorganic chemistry requirement? Thanks.

 

[JJBDDS]

Quick question for pre-dents at Michigan. I have taken Chemistry 130, Chemistry 125, Chemistry 126, and Chemistry 230. Is this all you need to fulfill the inorganic chemistry requirement of 8 credits? How did you complete the inorganic chemistry requirement? Thanks.

Yep those will fulfill it. That's what I took as well.

 

[LuckiLeigh]

same here and i was fine at all the schools i applied to. since you register for 125 as 2 classes (125 and 126) it looks like 2 labs on your transcript - tricky!

 

[xcrunner88]

I hope you guys are right. I emailed Tufts and they said it would work if 230 had a lab with it...but it doesn't. They weren't really sure, so they told me to fax or a copy of my transcript. Did you guys apply to Tufts? I don't wanna have to end up taking Analytical Chemistry or something like that.

 

[Waitlisted2009]

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[JJBDDS]

I hope you guys are right. I emailed Tufts and they said it would work if 230 had a lab with it...but it doesn't. They weren't really sure, so they told me to fax or a copy of my transcript. Did you guys apply to Tufts? I don't wanna have to end up taking Analytical Chemistry or something like that.

Well I did that as my inorganic chem and I just got accepted to Tufts. They never said anything to me about the lab. I just have to retake physics 2 this summer because I took it a community college...but then I'm good to go!

 

[JJBDDS]

What do you guys think about your own Dental school? Looking at Tufts...?

Waitlisted unfortunately...

 

[Waitlisted2009]

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[xcrunner88]

Well I did that as my inorganic chem and I just got accepted to Tufts. They never said anything to me about the lab. I just have to retake physics 2 this summer because I took it a community college...but then I'm good to go!

That's good to know. I was about to take AChem haha.

 

[tooth2222]

Quick question for pre-dents at Michigan. I have taken Chemistry 130, Chemistry 125, Chemistry 126, and Chemistry 230. Is this all you need to fulfill the inorganic chemistry requirement of 8 credits? How did you complete the inorganic chemistry requirement? Thanks.

Those are all the classes I took and I was fine.

 

[jlee1986]

chem 125 and chem 126 counts as two separate inorganic labs so you've fulfilled the requirement if you've taken chem 130, chem 125/126 and chem 230 or 260. michigan is pretty tricky! good luck with applications!

 

[xcrunner88]

Thanks guys. Any of you currently taking Bio 207?

 

[jlee1986]

Thanks guys. Any of you currently taking Bio 207?

i took it last semester with dunlap. best microbio teacher ever!

 

[xcrunner88]

i took it last semester with dunlap. best microbio teacher ever!

I heard Dunlap was awesome. We have a new professor this year, Dr. Ashman.

 

[JJBDDS]

oh that sucks, is there a large predental group at your school? Did you interview? That totally sucks but welcome to the club! There is still time, many months left

Yes I interviewed back in Oct

 

[BillytheEchidna]

chem 125 and chem 126 counts as two separate inorganic labs so you've fulfilled the requirement if you've taken chem 130, chem 125/126 and chem 230 or 260. michigan is pretty tricky! good luck with applications!

Tricky, yes! I took chem 130 and 125/126 in fall of 1997. The semester was a disaster...! Most of the class was confused, most of the time. Parents complained so much that C's were curved up to A's. The tenured professor, Dr. Henry C. Griffin (whose name is indelibly etched in my brain) lost his job over the mess.

I retook General Chemistry in 2006 at another school and it didn't seem as intense as it had seemed all those years ago at Michigan -- it was broken up into two semesters. I performed much better.

This discussion seems to support that Michigan does things differently. So am I crazy in thinking that Michigan probably combined all the material of other places' Gen Chem I and II into one semester? I tried to block it out, but it makes sense that I struggled with it so much if that was the case.

 

[JJBDDS]

Tricky, yes! I took chem 130 and 125/126 in fall of 1997. The semester was a disaster...! Most of the class was confused, most of the time. Parents complained so much that C's were curved up to A's. The tenured professor, Dr. Henry C. Griffin (whose name is indelibly etched in my brain) lost his job over the mess.

I retook General Chemistry in 2006 at another school and it didn't seem as intense as it had seemed all those years ago at Michigan -- it was broken up into two semesters. I performed much better.

This discussion seems to support that Michigan does things differently. So am I crazy in thinking that Michigan probably combined all the material of other places' Gen Chem I and II into one semester? I tried to block it out, but it makes sense that I struggled with it so much if that was the case.

Kind of like how Bio is now 2 semesters long..which thankfully I took it before they changed it so it was one just 5 credit class. I actually took Gen Chem through the CSP (comprehensive studies program) and that was awesome. The lecture only had 50 people and I think we had an extra lecture day than the rest of Gen Chem. Well worth it though.

 

[BillytheEchidna]

I love that I'm still able to log on to wolverine access! 😀 Apparently, I took Bio 152 -- IntrBiology-A, so I'm assuming they must have combined the two sometime after 1998? We used the book by Heller, Purves (et. al.) "Life" and there were two professors that switched on and off. I forget their names, but one of them resembled a graying and frail, person-sized chimpanzee. Those classes are so intense... I think they really try to dissuade people from being pre-health as soon as possible. I had no idea what to expect in college and general chem hit me like a mole of bricks. It sounds like the comprehensive studies version would have been much better! Kudos to you all for surviving.

In Chem 125, two of my lab partners could barely speak English, so they didn't really contribute much to the experiments. I managed to scrape by with a B in lab, but they got the two highest grades in the class! A little U of M altruism for you... I'm sure they're both doctors now!

 

[blondie888]

what other courses at UM counts as inorganic chemistry?
and what if you started with organic chem and never had to take Chem 230 bc you were placed out of it during the placement exam from orientation? do dental schools count that as one semester of inorganic chem?