<p>Does BCPM include only the first-year intro biology, chemistry, physics, and math courses, or does it also include all the 2nd year, 3rd year, and 4th year courses like Genetics, Biochemistry, Organic Chemistry, and so on?
Also, is statistics treated as math and therefore included in the BCPM?</p>
<p>Anything in the departments of biology, chemistry, physics, or math is included. Hence the name.</p>
<p>I have a question related to this topic, so I'll post here. Is it a better strategy to take a minimal amount of BCPM classes or a lot to get the highest BCPM GPA?</p>
<p>It doesn't matter since your GPA controls for the number of classes you take. If you take one class and get an A, that's a 4.0. If you take 20 classes and get A's in all of them, that's still a 4.0.</p>
<p>So it depends on what you are good at. If math and science are easy for you, and writing is hard, then load up on the technical courses, and stay away from comp lit. If you are a typical English major, then you may want to avoid quantum mechanics.</p>
<p>Taking the bare minimum might be a risky strategy for anyone since there is so much science that you must deal with in medicine. Medical schools are a little cautious about people who appear to dislike it so much that they want no more the the absolute minimum.</p>
<p>Does bioengineering count?</p>
<p>@afan</p>
<p>I want to do chemical engineering. The majority of those classes don't count towards BCPM GPA.</p>
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I wouldn't think so. Bioengineering isn't much related to medicine, though it has some aspects of biology in it.</p>
<p>Yeah, bioengineering is not BCPM. Anything engineering is not BCPM.</p>
<p>Bioengineering courses can be listed under biology without AMCAS feeling strongly enough about it to correct you, though they can also be listed under engineering, which I strongly suspect would be AMCAS's preference.</p>
<p>In any case you should lump them all in the same place; many engineers find that their BCPM rises when engineering courses are excluded.</p>
<p>would a stat course placed under a stat dept, not a math dept, be counted toward the BCPM gpa?</p>
<p>Yes .</p>
<p>what about statistics through the psychology department?</p>
<p>Probably not.</p>
<p>My major is Biochemistry, so most of my upper-level courses consist of Biochemistry courses. Are Biochemistry courses really included in your BCPM GPA, even if they are neither just Biology nor just Chemistry, but a mixture of those?</p>
<p>Chemistry, not that it matters.</p>