Chiki2160

Hi! I don't know if I should take Honors Chem because I haven't taken AP Chem at H.S. or chemistry honors. I took regular chem in sophomore year and that's it. But I'm planning on doing pre-med and....also it says on the chem website that you need to take Math 21A to take honors chem and I'm not really a math person. I wanted to take Math 17A. D:
Sigh what should I do? I got my placement results for math and I scored high enough for 21AH.

FutureEEMajor

This is going to be off topic sorry but how was the placement test for math?
Kind of freaking out about it since pre cal was two years ago for me.

Chiki2160

It wasn't bad at all. But definitely do the practice tests that they put online! That super helped and the actual test was pretty similar

yellowsugardog

don't take honors chem. DON'T DO IT.
idk how it is at davis, but my friend at UCSD said that it kicked his butt. he's a genius. he's done the honors chem & ap chem thing, 5 on the ap test, super smart math nerd. he survived, but he said that he really really really strongly advises people to not take honors courses their freshman year. it's not like honors classes in high school at all.

i do know that AP chem is SOOOO much harder than honors chem... i got A+'s in honors chem (a hard class at my old high school) and literally passed out after school from stress trying to get passing grade on tests in our AP chem class the next year (an almost impossible class at my old high school). i survived, but i cannot even imagine honors chem at a college course...

if anyone has actually taken honors chem at davis, speak up :P but this is just what i've heard

Hella

if you're planning on med school you generally want the highest GPA possible. if you want the highest GPA possible then you generally would not want to take honors when regular chem would do just fine.