@Kasa123 : Who did you have for ochem? Also, ochem is not some benchmark course (I am really tired of people using it to measure their “intelligence” or fit for the major, attaching their ego to success in the course. The fact is, general chemistry does not prepare most for a rigorous treatment of organic chemistry. And organic chemistry at Emory, even with a medium level instructor below Weinschenk or Soria is harder and has a more intensive problem solving aspect than it does at several of Emory’s peers, most which are ranked higher than Emory fwiw. If you take Soria or Weinschenk and score in the B range, you have pretty strong knowledge of organic chemistry as well as good problem solving which is more than most As in the courses at peers can say. Some of those courses are borderline “gen. chem with structures shown” courses, being taught and tested more like a biology course). You need not ace it to determine your competence in chemistry. Just taking a good teacher and developing logic and a different style of thinking about molecules is valuable and is a great gateway to understanding things like biochemistry. It isn’t easy to re-program oneself from how gen. chem taught you to plug and chug and memorize structural and conceptual aspects of chemistry to instead really understanding and then applying structural aspects of it. This transition does not have to come natural. Also, you should not compare your grades in chemistry vs. econ. Have you ever considered that chemistry is just a much more reputable, rigorous, competitive, and conservative grading program versus econ.
I am sorry, it is very difficult to determine if someone is “good” at econ. at Emory until they perhaps take the most rigorous instructors for 300-400 level math intensive econ. courses. Even those may not compare to the rigor of the best programs. Being “good” at it could be misconstrued with “they make these classes easier than what they should for a school at Emory’s level”. Emory isn’t the only school in the top 20 or so with a relatively harmless economics major, but the schools where an economics major goes far are not the ones where even top students say: “oh yeah, I am easily making a high GPA”. Most of the better students at such places likely have a class or two that really made them sweat and struggle like you did in ochem. Most of the top students in economics end up in the business school in primary and 2ndary area depths that likely make them fight for grades. Even after you account for the recommended grading distribution implemented in economics, both general and organic chemistry grade much lower than the recommended cut-offs there. A B+ or higher average chemistry major is actually considered very strong (also, some of the strongest chemistry majors I know got B grades in ochem, some even B/B- and went on to do amazing research, beast graduate courses and upper divisions using ochem and even winning departmental awards for their research and academic excellence. Some are at very top graduate programs in some chemistry or chemistry related fields and were not perfect at all. They took the hard courses, learned for knowledge, improved over time, applied their knowledge to research). I say hang in there and improve. Perfection can be really over-rated, especially in the context of a rigorous major that draw and retain many students with amazing backgrounds in chemistry already (how the heck do you think the department has students who go crazy over instructors as rigorous as Weinschenk which is basically pitching his course at the same levels of the course of very top tier institutions like Harvard or MIT?)
An econ. major from Emory WITHOUT lots of upper level math may mean very little. They are legendary for grade inflation and surprising ease.
You still have analytical chemistry, pchem, biochemistry 1 (trash), some electives (like chemical biology where you can put a knowledge in ochem and biology to use), and cool electives. Not all courses are ultra built upon organic chemistry. If you are more math inclined, pchem, analytical, and atmospheric may hit the spot.
Also, note that there are a couple of computational chemistry labs at Emory which may allow you to marry the interests.
Also people like me and folks that @BiffBrown knows are always here to help you through ochem 