<p>Wow! The midwest and northeast have some giant schools. My school at one point was overcrowded and only had 320-350 people per class. It is still impressive because it means you’re in the top 10 of a 900 person class. Be proud.</p>
<p>Oh, and I don’t know any profs. who’ll do concept maps in college. Again, this dude just gave students caseloads and a disease of the week assignment to work on (which of course stress several topics at once and in great detail). It was left to the student to determine what was important and what vague ideas to connect, if any. Often they had to propose novel solutions to new problems (as opposed to a problem that has already been thoroughly addressed in academia. Basically, students can’t just find an answer in some research paper). It’s a pretty intense general biology course, especially for frosh pre-meds worried about their grades, but great prep. for upperlevel courses. If NU has such a prof. for gen. bio (1 or 2, I’m guessing AP credit will help you some), I highly recommend it. It’s good for you. Hopefully NU’s frosh biology sections aren’t so large that no room is left for experimentation in pedagogy (many schools standardize across all sections and all profs. teach almost the same thing in the standard lecture format).</p>