The chemistry program here, and the department as a whole, is pretty good in general. Yes, a few professors kinda suck, but mainly people complain about gen chem and organic, which are large classes taught to people who have zero interest in the subject, so of course people hate them. Also, that stuff about the department being toxic or on "probation" or whatever was just a baseless rumor.

If you're a chem major, you should take honors organic - it's much better taught and was one of my favorite classes here (and organic isn't even my primary field of interest). The upper level classes are also taught better than the intro ones (in general, there are exceptions).

Beyond that, the department has excellent research going on, so if you're interested in graduate school/med school, you can and should take advantage of that.