Calc/Stats

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>Today I met with a premed advisor at my university and talked to him about courses. As a senior in HS, I already took 1 yr (3 quarters) of calc at a CC, so he told me I was done with the 1 yr calc req for med school. I got B,B,A in that order. There is an improvement trend, but I feel that this will pull my gpa down. He told me I could take stats b/c some schools recommend it and that stats would factor into my BCPM gpa. should i do it? Would I need to take "stats and probability" or can i take biostatistics or psychstatistics? what other "math" can i take to boost my bcpm gpa?</p>

<p>I am not great at math so I try to stay away from it since it is usually very timeconsumng for me. Can someone confirm that I am DONE with math and that med schools wont go like "he took this at CC so he did not fulfill req; he needs 1 yr at home institution". thanks.</p>

<p>also, he said all my courses including the CC course grades will be factored into my OVERALL gpa when considered for med school. is that correct? i keep seeing on this thread that they MAY NOT accept it? i took classes like 3 Japanese (foeign language classes), astronomy, asian ethnic studies, 2 english/writing, etc..</p>

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<p>All classes will count into your GPA; this does NOT mean that schools will accept those towards their prerequisites.</p>

<p>All stats will count towards your premedical GPA; whether they will count towards the prerequisites (probably) or even whether you will be allowed to take advanced stats without intro stats (probably not) depends on how it's labelled at your school and at the schools you're applying to.</p>

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<p>so if i were to not take ANY more math for the rest of my college career. will i be taking a huge risk applying to medschool with calc only from CC? my school's premed advisor says its ok, but from purusing this forum, i keep thinking otherwise.</p>

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<p><em>has no information and notices this discussion is happening on another thread as well</em></p>