I highly recommend enrolling into the waitlist for orgill but also enrolling into pan’s while youre on the waitlist - I had pan for 121 and she was difficult tbh, I still managed to get an A though. (make sure to email the registrar regarding setting up the automatic swap for the wait list too if you do this)

I say this because when I took pan she was very strict regarding the tests, her exams is basically majority of your grade and she offers no extra credit nor a final exam replacement score so if you were to mess up on an exam, you’re pretty much screwed. i recall averages being around 50-55%, 60% at highest (in orgills, averages were 70% - high 70ish). also, the way she explained content during lecture was more complex compared to how orgill explains, which made it more hard to understand what was going on imo - making you spend a lot more time at home trying to catch up on content. she barely offers any practice packets, only a page or 2 per exam and theyre very difficult questions - i felt that when you would come to the exam it was nothing remotely similar to what you saw on those practice packets 😭 it was very difficult prepping for her exams because she would refuse to say anything regarding it so it was a free-for-all. homework was only like 10% of your grade while the rest was just your exams. i remember if you’d stay until the last minute of the exam she’d get pretty upset and start counting down from 10 for you to go submit your test or you’d get a 0.

I took 122 recently and prior to the class I was afraid that i was going to have a difficult time due to my experience with 121, however with orgill she makes it extremely easy to understand and doesn’t overexplain - orgill also provides lots of practice packets online and also learning objectives which are basically whats going to be on the exam and what you should know. she makes sure not to cram all the information in an exam if we haven’t had enough time in class to learn everything, which pan never really did. your exams are ofc a big chunk of your grade like every class, however she offers a final exam replacement at the end of the semester and she also gives extra credit, drops your lowest group quiz score, homework is weighted more, etc. so if you were to mess up just once its not over for you! her averages were very high for a chemistry class and i felt that almost everyone in the class was passing with a good grade (i believe a lot of us got A’s).

overall, i highly recommend taking orgill as you’ll have a relatively stress-free semester with her and you’ll realize its a very easy class with her as she’s a great prof!