[shbooms]

> Organic Chemistry 1, 2 and 3 at NYU have always been considered challenging and “weed out”.

It seems this "weed out" culture around orgo is very much an established thing in the world of the sciences/pre-med which is a little strange to someone like me that is not in that world. How come one particular subject is used so universally to weed people out as opposed to just weeding out the bottom x% of people with lowest overall GPA's? Is orgo so much more important to scientists and medical professional compared to other subjects such as biology, anatomy, etc?

[johnkpaul]

It’s “weed out” from the perspective of medical schools, not chemistry path people.

It is a challenging subject for many, but the people who aren’t premed have an inherent interest to work through the material, imho.

I think that if the MCAT removed all organic chemistry, organic would lose all the “weed out” categorization