<p>I am a freshman in perspectives on science this year. It is definetely one of my favorite classes at yale. We’ve had lectures on angiogenesis, drug discovery with vesicles, dark matter, and other areas as well that I am having trouble thinking of right now. I have never had any experience with any of these and found all of the lectures really satisfying. You are given readings online usually the monday or tuesday of a lecture week and then the monday of the next week you are emailed a problem set, which usually covers a lot of the readings, which are research papers that the professor’s lab has written. Some problem sets have been pretty easy, and others hard, but overall it has been a really good introduction to research at Yale and sciences that I had not been exposed to. </p>
<p>Don’t worry about your lack of “unusually strong” science background. Mine was just AP chem and bio in high school and science fair my freshman and sophomore year. And most people are somewhere around there. A few people have done some sort of research but overall if you like science you should apply and you will probably get in.</p>