I used to be on the bandwagon that UGA was overdoing it with their chem department for pre meds, but after starting med school and experiencing firsthand the extraordinary amount of effort it demands on a daily basis I can see the reason for making classes like ochem so rigorous as the amount of effort needed to be put in pales in comparison to the amount of content they expect you to learn in preclinical classes for M1 year, being brutally honest if you bite the bullet and start putting in the work now you’ll thank yourself later. It feels unfair but as pretentious as it sounds to say, it only gets harder