Rutgers pre-med

Carbonate
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:06:26 +0000

Sure, take everything with a grain of salt, but I’d put the emphasis on your advice and not mine. I’ve actually taken chemistry at both the honors level (Honors chem I) and the general level (chem 2) so I have experience with both. Honors was significantly harder. Gen Chem 2 was a good deal easier than Honors Chem I, and according to students who took Gen Chem 1 + 2, 2 was supposed to be much more difficult than 1. Thus:
Honors Chem > Gen Chem in difficulty.

There is no logic behind what you are saying. Courses are not designed to weed students out, some courses are just difficult enough that students dropping/not passing occurs anyway. And more work is expected from you in honors courses simply because you’re supposed to be more capable, not less. I’m guessing you aren’t in honors and haven’t taken any honors courses.