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Re: A science degree is good for you
The greatest thing about college is that they won't let you jump into an advanced class. You'll start out at the bottom and probably about half the people you see in those intro classes won't go on to any other level.
Intro Physics generally recovers anything you may have learned in HS over again. Now some schools will cover everything HS covered in 1 year in the first 4 weeks (depending on how good your HS class was). This is because they expect you to have some basic understanding (that is if you take the physics classes made for physics majors.) Otherwise most colleges will have a non-calc based physics intro level (for biology and chem majors that have to also take intro physics) and a calc based class for physics majors.
I recommend that everyone try to take the calc based class, because that is the only way to truly learn physics.
I was taught at the HS level by a geneticist who knows almost nothing about physics, and in my first year I got straight A's at a top liberal arts college in the US (currently ranked 60, though they were in the top 25 when I was there.)
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