<p>wisteriawings – Of course you are right about physics. The Chem major requirements seem like a bit of bait and switch, however, since they don’t contemplate your taking any of the high-level chemistry courses offered, and presumably you would like to take at least a couple of them. If you look at the suggested flight path for a Chem major, however (especially a B.S. candidate), and layer in the Core and a year of Bio (if you want to keep that med school option open), well, there isn’t a whole lot of room for another three-course sequence in anything until maybe fourth year.</p>
<p>Latin is, indeed, a lot of fun. If you take a modern language, you spend inordinate amounts of time learning how to hold inane conversations about daily life with shopkeepers and cab drivers. The equivalent in Latin is learning how to describe the slaughter of enemies and the pillaging of their property. History has pretty much dispensed with crappy Latin literature and left only the good stuff, which you get to much faster because you don’t have to learn how to ask for directions to the nearest supermarket.</p>