How does the trimester system work for traditional year long classesm e.g. organic ch

wisconsinguy
Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:46:19 +0000

General and organic chemistry as well as general physics are taught as two-term courses. It is quite possible to take them and still go abroad. However, it will require some good planning and discipline. You’ll probably want to start with gen chem freshman year, take orgo sophomore year, and physics senior year. Or, if you want to get done with the requirements sooner, you can double up orgo and physics, which I wouldn’t recommend. But suffice to say, premeds do go abroad.

Additionally, I have known a number of Dartmouth students who took summer orgo at Harvard, but not necessarily because they couldn’t fit it in at Dartmouth–apparently orgo at Harvard tends to be easier.