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Everything said is pretty much right. It's not challenging material, but keep in mind that like a third or something of college freshmen are "pre-med". But they all won't stick with it, and these colleges sure as shit ain't supporting thousands of kids applying to med school. So you got these weed-out classes, calc 1 and ochem, where you can't plug-and-chug and can't cough up what you memorized on the test bank. The material is pretty basic, but they crank up the heat to lukewarm and grade on a curve, and, bam, you just knocked out >1000 "pre-meds". At the time, thought it was kind of a raw deal for the rest of us, with all that then the uber-pre-meds who graduated summa cum laude. But, looking back, I didn't really learn how to do science until my PhD, anyway. And I'm still learning in my post-doc. Just one of the early hoops to jump through.
