Organic chemistry was the great winnower of premeds. The material is very complex on many fronts. It was supposed to be hard, and it was supposed to weed out those that couldn’t grasp the concepts.
It seemed to me to be more favorable to the memorizers during that time frame.
Interesting that this particular professor went for a problem-solving approach, breaking away from the rote study that I remember.
I never took organic - but all my friends did. I wouldn't have had a hard time in it, but I steered towards the math and engineering type sciences, instead.
Orgo and Diff Eq for ChemE.
I’d love to take that course, even if I do horribly at it, just because even if I’m not good at it, I would still learn a lot. But that will have to wait until I have a steady job again. :-)
I graduated from Pharmacy School. Chem, Math, and Physics, in prepharmacy got rid of those that could not make it in pharmacy school. Those that make it to pharmacy school have a very high graduation rate. In my class only three did not. Two could not make it due to personal reasons and thus dropped out. The third switched his major to toxicology. He was bright and making good grades. He just decided he wanted to be a toxicologist instead of a pharmacist.
What makes pharmacy school difficult is not the material that you must learn. It is the massive amount of material and time required to learn it. It is a long process over years.