I have an NYU chemistry degree and I took quite a lot of organic. I wasn’t pre-med and had planned, at the time, to get a PhD with research in organic chemistry/material science.

Even though my classes were with this guy’s predecessor’s predecessor, everything described about the challenge of this class and the complaints from premeds was exactly the same ~20 years ago.

Organic Chemistry 1, 2 and 3 at NYU have always been considered challenging and “weed out”. I was and am very proud of my moderately successful academics in chemistry from NYU and find it a bit sad that the expectations given to me are changing.