<p>any students want to let us know what profs/classes are easy or have nice grade inflation</p>
<p>That’s the spirit, don’t pick classes in subjects you enjoy, or in which you might actually learn something, or in a field that you intend to study. Pick-em because they’re easy.</p>
<p>^ Haha on the first comment.</p>
<p>The best way for your slacker attitude is to choose classes with nonrelative grades. :></p>
<p>My friend at Harvard knows this guy who only takes easy classes and doesn’t care at all about his education and he’s got a GPA of 3.0 or something near that :)</p>
<p>XpremedX must be an extraordinary and brilliant person: that is why he was admitted to Harvard.</p>
<p>mirite guys</p>
<p>And, besides, I’m sure one has something to learn from even the most deceptively trivial of classes at Harvard.</p>
<p>“XpremedX must be an extraordinary and brilliant person: that is why he was admitted to Harvard.”</p>
<p>Was this sarcastic? Because I go to Harvard, and there are plenty of slackers who could care less about their education. Either daddy’s or mommy’s money and connections got them in or they’re amazing at a sport. Now that may not be the OP at all, but don’t make the mistake of thinking that everyone at Harvard is great.</p>
<p>And if the OP has gone through math at the multi-variable calc level, he could still sign up for a lower math and not learn much, easy as that.</p>
<p>Why go to Harvard if all you care about is slacking? Seems like admissions may have made a mistake.</p>
<p>Expos 20, CS 50, Math 55 and Chem 20 ought make for a leisure filled first term</p>
<p>I agree, but you might think about leaving Expos for spring and do accelerated German.</p>
<p>I second math 55. That class is supposed to be a walk in the park if you’ve just completed precal.</p>
<p>Well, the passionate angular student who wowed the admissions people perhaps doesn’t want demanding core courses because they detract from focus on “the passion” ???</p>
<p>Lolz…</p>
<p>I have a question about Freshman Seminars and the Cue Guide…hopefully i won’t be hammered by sarcastic remarks. :)</p>
<p>In your experience (current Harvard Students) how reliable are the Q scores for the Difficulty & Work Required categories? There are several FS that I’m interested in and I want to take the one which requires the least amount of work & study. I’m not lazy or educationally apathetic, but I want my 1st semester to be as relaxed as possible so I can spend more time meeting people, exploring the myriad of EC’s/clubs available, and getting to know Cambridge/Boston. My preliminary schedule right now is LS1a, Expos 20, and Spanish Aa (darn lang. requirement!). I plan to do pre-med and concentrate in Neurobiology.</p>
<p>Some of the FS I’m interested in are: Neurotoxicology, What is Mental Illness?, Brain & Behavior, Slips of the Ear, Mental Health & Disease, Skepticism & Knowledge, Freud & Philosophy, Happiness in Philosophy & Psychoanalysis.</p>
<p>It would be great if current students could shed some light on any of those Seminars.</p>
<p>Thanks in Advance!</p>
<p>Don’t worry, most decent advisers will warn you if they think that you can’t handle a class load. And besides, you have 5 weeks to switch. I wouldn’t worry too much about the FS. Most have almost no work outside of reading. They are also all pass/fail, and I doubt anyone who shows up fails. Just apply to the ones that sound interesting to you. Many are fantastic and taught by really big names. You should also realize that you have no/very little control over what semester you take Expos.</p>
<p>In terms you Q scores, it’s hard to say. It really depends on your background. I’ve never found them terribly helpful. If it’s a subject that you’re strong in, chances are you can handle the class regardless of the Q score. But I would be cautious of courses that you have little background in and also have a high Q score. That said, I would never avoid a class that you want to take because it has a high difficulty rating.</p>
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Could you explain this?</p>
<p>Students are randomly assigned to take Expos 20 in either the fall or the spring. However, I heard you can request to switch semesters if you’re not satisfied.</p>
<p>^ New info all the time. :)</p>
<p>You can request a switch, but I doubt too many are granted. You basically have to have someone who wants to switch their Expos to your semester.</p>
<p>In the process, are you then expected to take the freshman seminar on the opposite semester. My D said that she received into about selecting your top 5 freshman seminars early August. Obviously. some are fall and some are spring. Will students know about their writing obligations by then. Technically, not only could a student be assigned for fall or spring expo 20 but there is also even the possibility of being required to start with expo 10. Will students know any of the placement test results by the early August date?</p>
<p>Based on what I’ve heard, we won’t know until the end of August what our placement scores are. However, all of them are just recomendations. Even if they recommend Expos 10 based on the expository writing score, we can still choose to just do Expos 20. </p>
<p>But building on what others have said, when will we know which semester of Expos we will be assigned to? I want to take Expos 20 and a FS in opposite semesters, and this could be difficult to coordinate if we don’t find out for a while. Since I will most likely concentrate in the sciences, I have a couple classes that I want to take in back to back semesters in addition to a foreign language, so having, for example, Expos 20 and a FS first semester with a max load of 4 courses would put me in a bind.</p>
<p>^ Same exact situation for D</p>