Rutgers pre-med

naoise
Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:02:58 +0000

Honors chem seems easier than regular chem. In my dorm (I live in an all honors, all girls dorm) half of the kids taking chemistry took gen chem and the other half took honors. And the honors kids were doing well on exams while the gen chem kids were studying really hard and not doing so great. so the honors kids would try to help the gen chem kids but found the gen chem material/work a lot more difficult than that of the honors class. so that is where I’m drawing these conclusions from.

and it makes sense. Because gen chem acts as a weed-out course for pre-med with tough, detailed exams and such, there is less of a need to weed-out the honors kids, because, well they’re honors and presumably smarter and such. plus you get the smaller class sizes which is an easier environment to learn in as opposed to the large lecture-settings. and you can ask for recommendations from your professors and such, which is always nice to have.

of course I am not a chem or pre-med student. I am merely taking information from friends and people i’ve talked to. so take everything with a grain of salt. especially what the poster above me says.