<p>I am currently a senior at Boston University (pre-med). For starters, Boston is an AMAZING place to live and an even better place to go to school. In terms of attending BU, if your son is going to be taking the science classes (for pre-med), he needs to be prepared. I took honors chemistry my senior year of high school and I was not prepared at all. The first exam we got back, I started to cry in the middle of lecture because I had the number 35 circled on the top of my exam. I had never done so poorly especially in a science class. I had studied and even attended office hours. I looked over at my friend’s exam and he got a 25. The average for the exam was a 33 out of 100. If that is not grade deflation, then I don’t know what is… I think that as a freshman in college I expected my first semester to be difficult–I thought I would get B’s, but that is not the case for those in the science courses. The freshman general chemistry classes at BU are designed so that people who aren’t serious about science, drop the pre-med track and switch out of the sciences. I did not drop out of the class and I have even taken the more advanced science classes, Orgo, Cell Bio, etc. If your son is interested in taking science classes here, expect the average class grade to be a C or C+. This is one of the most difficult schools to do well in especially in the science courses! That being said, I personally can’t go back in time, and that’s fine. But HE should just prepare himself for this.
Regardless, my experience at BU has been incredible and I wish your son the best of luck!</p>