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It’s one of the harder classes in the premed/bio track (along with biochem). It is also probably harder here than at any other college from what I’ve heard. I didn’t take it, but I’d say work hard and make sure that you have a group of people that you can work with. Going solo is not really a good option for that class.</p>
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No shot at that. I think AP Chem will give you an elective credit or a core physci credit. Won’t even be close to genchem. No matter what AP’s you have, as a bio major you’re looking at 3-5 quarters of the bio sequence and 3 quarters of genchem, along with ochem and biochem and some other stuff. Also, if you are really interested in bio, you should take a look at the AP5 sequence. As the name suggests, it’s a alternate bio sequence that only admits students who got 5s on the AP Bio test that has a heavy focus on learning from actual research papers rather than textbooks. It’s supposedly very difficult, but is extremely rewarding and useful.</p>
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No idea. I think your intuition is probably correct though, they would rather you give them quality and honesty than word counts. I would focus on the UChicago essay though. There’s a reason they give you crazy and creative prompts, they want to know how you respond to them and force you to go outside the cookie-cutter application essays.</p>
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It was great. I lived in Max P., one of the newer dorms. Though near the middle-end of my second year I was really ready to move out, as most people are at that point. Anything in particular you want to know about them?</p>
<p>And I’m not sure I’d change anything. Maybe the neighborhood, Hyde Park isn’t terrible, but it’s extremely inconvenient to get to downtown proper and there isn’t a ton of activity around. It’s fine, but after a couple of years you start to want to branch out of Hyde Park, and it’s kind of a pain to go downtown/to the north side more than once in a while. And I miss having real grocery stores sometimes. Hyde Park Produce actually has very cheap produce, but packaged goods are expensive. I usually try to get downtown to Target once a month or so and stock up. Of course, you won’t have to deal with that until you move out.</p>