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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a reason for "weed-out" classes in college for premeds. If these students cannot handle the rigor and stress of a difficult class, how will they handle medical school? Frankly, I wouldn't want them in the position of making life and death decisions.[/quote]

Is there any actual proof of this regarding this specific class? Or is it just "it's always been done this way thinking"? [/quote]

It's something that is impossible to prove. Whether its orgo, or some other class, there have always been classes where a premed student just doesn't do well on. One may argue that orgo is not directly useful in medical school, but the fact remains that many medical school classes are difficult and these premed classes show which students know how to learn a difficult topic and which don't.[/quote]

Yet you can take org Chem at a community college and transfer the credit.[/quote]

Right but med schools notice that! These kids want credit on their med school applications for an nyu orgo class (which certainly gives them a boost over an applicant with a cc orgo class) but they don’t want it to be too hard. [/quote]

That is 100% untrue.[/quote]

You think med school admissions committees can’t differentiate who took their pre-reqs at Penn or Northwestern and who took them at community college? I am a huge fan of community colleges and I’m not saying it makes sense for schools to ding applicants but they absolutely do. [/quote]

They don’t care. Just like they don’t care your calculus class was a lame HS class and a 4 on your AP exam.[/quote]

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