Kendall L.
They are the worse of the worse
They are the worse of the worse. The discussions, quizzes, adaptive reading, homeworks, exams are ridiculously high. If someone works and take only 1 class at this school trust me you will have no time not eat, sleep or anything. The amount of work expected to do in Biochemistry is extremely high. The Professor wants to give a one month worth of work in 1 week. Even if you don't work you will have no time to do everything they ask. I give you an example. If week 1 have 4 to 8 chapters you have to take each chapter a long homework for each yes you read it right and on top of that you have to do each chapter and adaptive reading which is like a quiz/homework, and then you have to take a quiz at the end but the discussion you need to do a 200 words for doing it and answer 2 student at 200 words which that place you at 600 words per discussions. I mean wow this is ridiculous. This university needs the professor of Biochemistry to teach the most important not to give you so much information and so much volume of work to make out the original 4 months in a normal semester. I think if they teach the importance the volume doesn't have to be so crazy. I hardly sleep because working full time and taking only 1 accelerated course the amount of work you do it's like you have 5 or more classes at one sitting and that's is why I think it's way to ridiculous. I'm very disappointed they need to fix this because other students are clueless and you don't learn anything or grasp nothing since you have so much work it does not give you any time to study for the exams and like I said before you will have to study day and night and be lack of sleep not even med school was like this undergrad biochemistry class. If you thinking to take prerequisite u suggest you to go to another school and take it like a normal semester if you want to learn the material. Otherwise u don't care about GPA or learning then you can go to this school just to get the class but if you don't learn biochemistry I will tell you by experience it will suck in med school trust me. So listen carefully and study biochemistry in a regular way like a semester where you can grasp the material and actually learn it. Good luck .
Response from SCU, Accelerated Science CoursesApr 23, 2024
We apologize for your experience with SCU and thank you for your honest feedback as we strive to ensure that all students have a pleasant experience while taking our courses. We specifically designed them to assist students in obtaining their prerequisites as efficiently as possible so that they may continue with their educational journey. While we do understand the courses can be rigorous due to their extremely fast pace, we have established resources such as tuition inclusive tutoring and assigned Instructors to asynchronous courses to aid students in completing these five-week courses. With all that being said, we appreciate you giving SCU an opportunity to be a part of your educational path.



