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[quote=Anonymous]I was a bio major who dropped orgo halfway through the term. I now work as a panhandler and reside in a refrigerator carton under a bridge abutment in West Baltimore.

No, I actually substituted a 200-level analytical chemistry course the following term and did just fine and completed my major. O-chem was a lot of visual manipulations that just didn't work for me, perhaps for the same reason I suck at assembling Ikea furniture. The other class was a lot more standard chem and algebra-type stuff, which worked well for me. It was the definite end of any med school aspirations but at that point I was 95% sure I didn't want it, anyway. 4 years of med school, worrying about matching, X years of residency while working 100-hour weeks and being paid peanuts, and $300,000 in debt, you'd better be really sure you won't end up hating it and I wasn't, not at all. I work in an allied health field instead and am perfectly satisfied.

There is no need to take organic chemistry for the vast majority of people. Your DD can give it another go if she wants but there are many avenues she can take with her major to go into many things. Don't let it get her down. You don't need super math skills for a bio major but a 620 on the SAT suggests that this is not really her strength area. I would probe more to make sure she's choosing her major for HER and not based on some external pressure (either perceived or actual).[/quote]

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