Worried about Pre-Med at MIT :(

collegealum314
Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:27:07 +0000

MIT is harder any other school with the exception of Caltech in terms of class rigor, work volume, and grade deflation.

It’s impossible to answer this question as to whether it will hurt you until you get into second year classes. At the very least, you get a free semester GPA-wise so you may be able to get some idea. The first semester at MIT is pass/no record and you do get some additional pass/no record classes later on to try out different majors.

If you have a solid background in physics (AP 5), you might want to try 8.012 first semester (the theoretical version). If you can get an “A” in that, you probably will be ok.
Don’t get overconfident though. A lot of the more well-prepared students blow off first semester.