hwylee

Hi everyone. I am one of the lucky students of 2013. I am planning to go along the curriculum of Pre-dentistry or Pre-med. I am scared because I do not know what to expect in my first year. Should I study in advance? Also, how hard are the classes overall? I have friends in college that tell me the two extremes of college life. Some say that they do nothing but literally "eat" books for the whole day, and others say that they are having the best moment in their life. How will my life be in Brown? Thank you for enlightening me.

wudanyan

i know this won't be a helpful response, but life at brown is what you make of it. i came in as premed and i *think* i still am. don't feel like you will need to study in advance. most students don't.
predent and premed are basically the same in terms of courses:
2 semesters of math, more specifically calculus (will take ap credit)
2 semesters of general chem (take chem33 and you should be fine)
2 semesters of organic chem (chem35/36 sequence)
1 semester of biochem (biol28, offered in the spring. need chem35 as prereq)
2 semesters of physics (typically phys3/4 but some students w/ physics background do 5/6)

orgo will be hard, there's really no two ways about it, but there's definitely a lot of resources (problem session, our tutoring servicE) chem33 shouldn't be bad, regardless of whatever level of chemistry have you had in your high school. (again, tutoring / p.sessions always available) all the other classes shouldn't be terribly difficult, although you should be prepared to work in order to do well.