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The cost of mistakes is too high
to have low standards.
Mistakes in
the crime lab
usually mean a violent criminal goes free and occasionally mean an
innocent person goes to jail. The cost of mistakes is too high to
have low standards. In the homeland security fields, the stakes are
even higher.
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The Right
Stuff:
Thomas Edison said that
genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Being
gifted in math and science doesn’t hurt, but becoming a
scientist is more about having a good work ethic and working
very hard in school. A person who may initially be an
average science student with a genuine love for science can
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What it
Takes:
Challenging college course work typically requires 2-3 hours of
out-of-class preparation for every hour of class. Thus a 16
hour course load requires 48-64 hours per week of effort.
Majoring in science is a full time job and then some. The party
view of college life is completely incompatible with the
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High
School: The
ideal high-school preparation for a B.S. degree in Forensic
Science is to be sure to include 4 years of Math and 4 years of
Science with as much advanced placement (A.P.) Math and Science
as possible. Four or even five years of English is also highly
recommended, including composition, writing, and A.P. English.
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Community
College:
The ideal community college preparation for a B.S. degree in
Forensic Science includes two semesters of General Chemistry
(including lab), two semesters of Organic Chemistry (including
lab), two semesters of Calculus, two semesters of Physics
(calculus-based preferred, including lab), two semesters of
Biology (including lab), and a course in intermediate level
Statistics.
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