Upper division biology question

[mitrieD]

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I will be starting upper division biology soon.

I can guess that many pre dents here may be majoring in bio. My question is, how is upper division bio.?

I guess I did okay in general ed. After two years I got a 3.5 GPA or so, but that was at a community college. I will be transferring to a UC soon. Will my work ethic have to dramatically increase? Will it be more interesting?

Any input would do. Experiences? 🙂 thanks

 

[dantemac]

I liked my upper divisions better. Classes like morphology, biochem, developmental, physiology should all be more interesting than general bio with its plants and cell operons.

 

[dentalWorks]

I will be starting upper division biology soon.

I can guess that many pre dents here may be majoring in bio. My question is, how is upper division bio.?

I guess I did okay in general ed. After two years I got a 3.5 GPA or so, but that was at a community college. I will be transferring to a UC soon. Will my work ethic have to dramatically increase? Will it be more interesting?

Any input would do. Experiences? 🙂 thanks

Yes to both questions (unless we are talking about genetics, big time yes for 1st, big time no for 2nd).... as you can tell by now, I hated genetics

But seriously, many upper level bios are taught by professors with a mind set that most of the students will end up in medical/other healthcare fields, they teach in such a way that obtaining a high grade requires good amount of studying..... Many of my upper level bios, exam averages were in the low 50s, and if it was "easy" exam, mid 60s.