Chance me: ED to Cornell/ED2 to Washu (need input please!)

Hamurtle
Tue, 08 Oct 2019 13:42:00 +0000

WashU is a grade deflator as well and the introductory science classes (Chemistry, Biology, Physics) are pretty notorious for being weeder classes. Organic Chemistry at WashU is infamous and significant numbers of students take it at a different school.

BME at WashU also weeds out a lot of students as well. Up to 1/3 of the freshmen BME students eventually get weeded out. The workload is going to be hard enough, but BME premed is going to be rough.

If you have taken some sort of Biology and Physics already, that may suffice, but most applicants to Cornell and WashU considering STEM will have at least AP Biology and AP Physics completed/in progress.

Agree that taking 2 ‘easier’ AP classes for a GPA boost over an AP science class was not necessarily a good idea.