Organic chemistry
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This is abt my niece who I know well. She is having a terrible time with organic chemistry.
She is a genuinely smart girl and a good test taker generally doing well at a top 50 school in her intro stem classes but this class seems like it’s going to break her-she will be extremely lucky to get a C. My question is-what’s going on/how common is this? If this happened to your adult kid what did they do? For context-this really is my niece. (My own college kid is an English major and would def bomb this class. ) also, I actually took two semesters of orgo in college myself and I remember it as quite hard but not impossible for me, a not highly diligent student. Thats actually partly why I’m asking-I know this kid and remember the class I took and it doesn’t make sense to me! |
Anonymous
| Org chem took my now-husband out of pre-med in college. It is THE weed out science course. He got a double major in business and is now a CPA/CFO- it worked out but there are times he still wishes he had pushed through to being a pediatric orthopedic. Such is life. Medicine can feel like a calling in a way business doesnt. |
Anonymous
| O chem was easy for you and hard for her? On the scale of courses, it’s super hard. It really takes a different kind of learning to get it. |
Anonymous
| Knock out my super smart SIL from a tip top pre-med program. |
Anonymous
It wasn’t easy for me at all-it just seemed like a really hard class that could be surmounted with enough studying, not something that a smart, stem-minded kid who works hard and usually tests well might fail! |
Anonymous
| My kid is first year at ivy in engineering taking ochem and lab and did well on the midterms. Kid is doing much better than I did .. I got Cs in chem long long time ago. |
Anonymous
| Why do they need to weed out pre-med? We need more doctors! |
Anonymous
| Agree it's THE weed out class - gets rid of all but the super serious |
Anonymous
| Worst class i ever took. Didn't matter how much i studied. |
Anonymous
| My kid didn’t have any problems with O. Chem classes. Currently in Johns Hopkins med school. |
Anonymous
Not according to the American Medical Association |
Anonymous
| This was the worst class for many of my doctor friends and known as the weed out class. One got a C in the class, but still managed to get into a Top 15 medical school. |
Anonymous
Why does it matter what they think? It is the university weeding out the kids. |
Anonymous
Having weed-out classes save lives, because they keep stupid ones out. |
Anonymous
| Organic chemistry separates the men from the boys. |