<p>Do you guys think that med schools would look down on it if I took a class titled Statistics for Business instead of Statistics I or "Statistics for Research"? It was the only statistics course that fit my schedule this semester. The courses have the same prereqs and fill the same prereqs. All three are given within the stat department.</p>
<p>I don’t think that they will care so long as you have a stats class. My impression is that they don’t spend that much time combing your class schedule.</p>
<p>Mmm, they don’t spend THAT much time, but this sounds a little fluffy. Still, if Stats isn’t mandatory anyway, probably not a big deal.</p>
<p>To be fair, my statistics for life sciences was a major joke too.</p>
<p>Yeah, usually anything that involves “for” in the title isn’t particularly useful. Statistics I, in this case, is clearly the “Core” subject.</p>
<p>I have no idea what medical adcoms think, but in my experience anything “for business” or “for business majors” tends to be extremely fluffy. My college’s business math is basically what is learned in high school algebra and basic pre-calc, except with a little bit of computer work.</p>
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<p>Do you think AMCAS will consider statistics for life sciences as a BCPM course? As far as I know, this class is quite popular among pre-meds. There is another similar class called statistics for medicine, which is even more application/career oriented – some premeds seem to take that class also.</p>
<p>Somehow I feel that given only these two choices, maybe “statistics for life sciences” is a little bit safer – safe in term of being counted as a math course by adcoms. This is because I believe life sciences is more like an academic subject, while medicine is more like a professional career. Am I right on this?</p>
<p>To clarify, statistics for life sciences is jointly offered by the statistics department and the biology department, and statistics for medicine is jointly offered by the statistics department and the medical school. When I said it is jointly offered, it means that the professor from the statistics department teaches during the first half (7.5 weeks) of the semester, and the professor from either the biology department or the medical school teaches during the other half.</p>
<p>I thought that all courses offered under the BCPM departments counted as BCPM courses, even if they have fluffy course names?</p>
<p>They count, but admissions people will still see the classes you took.</p>
<p>If it says stats in the course title, AMCAS is going to count it. Just like they will count classes like introduction to calculus or pre-health calculus as a calculus class. I really doubt that the level of stats that you took has ever kept someone from an acceptance (unless maybe you were a stats major or something). It’s a second class pre-req and is required for only a fraction of medical school.</p>