<p>What is the difficulty of the pre-med requisites?</p>
<p>Can you compare them with high school courses?</p>
<p>For example, Intro Biology is hard as AP Bio or something like that. (I don’t know if that’s right.)</p>
<p>Thank you very much.</p>
<p>Varies from college to college and high school to high school. Impossible to give a reasonable answer.</p>
<p>My experience? All but two college classes (organic) were a joke compared to any of my high school classes (barring Spanish). This should give you some idea of how variable it is.</p>
<p>I’ll go ahead and play the opposite side of the coin. </p>
<p>Not that I didn’t attend a great HS, but it was nowhere near what BDM had in terms of college prep. Mine was just your typical suburban HS. </p>
<p>Most of my classes were certainly more difficult than HS, but I wouldn’t say they were off the charts. They challenged me some which all my HS courses (with the exception of spanish, and AP US History) didn’t do a whole lot of. </p>
<p>But I think it’s also hard to judge somewhat b/c college courses are just different. I keep thinking about my AP English courses vs my honors Comp 2 course, and thinking “hmm, we got a lot more done in AP, and did a lot more writing in class too” but there’s just a lot more time during a HS course. College classes at my alma mater are either 50 minutes 3x a week or 75 2x a week, so you’re getting less than 3 hours a week of classroom time, which compared to HS which may be close to 6 hours a week (if you have a true block schedule).</p>
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<p>Agree with this statement. For instance, my son went to a public high school where very few students go anywhere but local state schools and many students do not go on to college at all. His college classes were much more intense than his HS AP courses–but also selected a college known for grade deflation and rigorous work load. Some of his college classmates have not found it as difficult as he has, but they attended highly competitve prep schools and entered with a much stronger background.</p>