I've thought about this before myself when thinking of transferring. Thing is, I'm not convinced that every or even most applicants have taken the recommended chem and bio courses before transferring to MIT for the exact reason you've mentioned above. However, I am no expert on transfer...
Thinking back to my intro to modern physics course a while back, one particular equation always sticks out to me but I never quite understood how to interpret it properly. We were doing some basic QM and looking at the normalization of the wave function in 1D. It looked something like this...
Are you certain that you have to take Chem and Bio to qualify for the transfer? Certainly, you need those courses to get a degree from MIT but I'm not sure you have to have them before transferring.
Based on what I'm hearing, it seems like nearly all of my profs are going to be that way in the future. When I chose to study physics, I was hoping to be taught physics. Now I'm realizing that I have to pay quite a lot of money to teach myself physics.
I'm a sophomore currently at university and I'm beginning to wonder if my undergrad experience with respect to the physics department here is indicative of everyone's experience as a physics undergrad. Here's what I'm dealing with:
So far, I've only taken 5 physics courses: 3 semesters of...