celestial605

Yes, I would recommend trying to save Stats 60 for the winter. Can it fit into your schedule in winter? Or, you could just shop it and see if you think you can handle everything in fall. Alternatively, you could consider an activity or other random class.

calikent

Thanks for the advice - turns out some of my friends are taking it in winter, so it will probably be more fun then anyway.

Guess I'll see you in class superwizard! (And maybe in the dorm, too...I think we're in the same dorm?)

superwizard

Are we? PM me sometime and we'll find out

celestial605

I'm really curious who all these CC users are in real life! It would be so odd if one of you is in my dorm next year and if I go through the whole year without knowing...

qscgy

Taking anything besides 35, 36 and 41 this fall?

superwizard

Yes that would definitely be odd Celest.

qscgy who are you aiming your question at? Personally I'm also thinking about taking an IntroSem...

qscgy

would like to take 35, 36, 41 also Fiction Writing. But concern about the reality of handling all these courses nicely.

superwizard

^Can't you take any C/NC?

jwj

Realistically speaking, yes, you can do them. Just depends on how well you'd like to do in them. Both 41 and 35 require exhaustive amounts of memorization, and 36 requires hours of b****work each week. Just those three would probably fill the average person's schedule with work. If you'd like to add fiction writing, doing it C/NC might be good option. Try it for a few weeks, and if things go downhill after the drop deadline and you have all four classes, switch the grading scale in FW.

stanfordcard

yeah i have to do chem 35,36 with bio 41. i just wanted to know what exactly makes the biocore so "scary" and "hard" as ive heard...isnt it just a whole bunch of memorizing facts n'stuff? any perspective on this woud be helpful, thanks!

celestial605

There's a lot of information, and the tests are kind of hard... you'll get to see tests from the past, so you'll know what I mean. A lot of it is short answer or fill in the blank, and they're not very lenient about partial credit. There are also some "design an experiment to test this theory" type questions, which are hard because it's the first time most people have seen them and they aren't really addressed during lecture time.

jwj

Um, also, you're competing with 300 incredibly hardcore pre-meds. Well, not all are intense, but most. You have to realize the difference between a B+ and an A- can be as little as a tenth of a point. There's so little distinction between scores that you have to try even harder to get on the upper end. Nearly a third might receive A's, but to get into that third is no simple task.

Also, you go at the rate of a chapter a day. That's a lot. And not easy to keep up with. Particularly when you're taking other time-heavy classes.

celestial605

Yup.

I highly recommend that any bio-minded people take Bio 158: Developmental Neurobiology as soon as you are able to. It's extremely helpful for thinking about experimental design, and I love the head professor, Sue McConnell (the course is team-taught).

qscgy

Any thoughts, experiences, pro and cons about taking 3 sessions of General Physics at Santa Clara University of the summer for pre med?

Compare to taking them at Stanford duing summer quarter?

jwj

1) UCSC is a hell of a lot cheaper
2) UCSC is a hell of a lot easier
3) you'd have to commute to UCSC every day

Either way, you're spending the summer taking classes.