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Senior Lecturer on Chemistry James E. Davis, who teaches Chem 5, attributes the dropout rate to multiple causes.
"People come in with a romanticized notion of going to medical school or becoming a great scientist," says Davis. "Then they take Chem 5 and discover this is not really what they want to do."
Yet Davis refutes the suggestion that Chem 5 is meant to "weed out" students who are med school-bound. He claims that it is a basic course with a lot of support for students without chemistry backgrounds.
"Chem 5 is the easiest course that students have to take for med school," says Davis, who is also a premed adviser. "And it is certainly easier than anything in med school, but we do not consider it a 'weeding out' course."
According to Davis, first-year students are often discouraged by the qualitative change in course expectations between high school and college chemistry courses. Students used to doing problems by rote find college-level exams a rude awakening.