<p>Hello,
I am currently a senior in NY and need some advice. For those of you who are in the medical field, did taking Calculus or Physics help you in college? Did it make med school/your major or easier or was the classes worthless and didnt aid you. I am asking this because I have to decide whether or not I want to take Calculus or Physics. I need help in advance.</p>
<p>Any comments/advice is strongly appreciated,
Thank You</p>
<p>anyone????</p>
<p>If you are premed in college, these courses are usually required, and covered on the MCAT. Any pre-college work you can get would be helpful.</p>
<p>Calculus and/or Physics may be required for admission to some of your colleges.</p>
<p>But no, I'm in pharmacy and I never was called upon to do calculus or physics in regular daily practice. They were not even particularly useful in college, though they do help to develop logical thinking and facility with numbers.</p>
<p>if you were to choose between taking physics and taking calculus if you are majoring in med field, which one would it be?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Personally, I'd vote for calculus. </p>
<p>If you already know calc pretty well, it will make physics a lot easier in college, while the reverse isn't true.</p>
<p>If you are a senior, are you planning to take calculus and physics at a community college? or in freshman year? I assume you aren't taking them now?</p>
<p>I can tell you that taking physics with no calculus knowledge might be very difficult.</p>
<p>i decided to take physics.. the teacher is bright. And he teaches you the neccessary calculus skills needed for physics so its like im killing 2 birds with 1 stone. Also physics will prep me up for the MCAT as kc_lady stated. the teacher is a college professor teaching in high school so i think it shouldnt be that difficult.</p>
<p>Either way you're going to have to wind up taking them again, since they're pretty much required courses for most med schools. I wouldn't worry about gearing up for the MCAT quite yet...there's plenty of time for that:)</p>
<p>i wouldn't be too concerned with calc/physics, the moster is Orgo and the Orgo lab...</p>
<p>well relearning will be easier in college if you have already seen the topics in high school. </p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Having taken physics in HS, other than a lil trig, it didn't help me at all with calc, while I'm quite sure that had I taken calc, I would've understood physics better.</p>
<p>the teacher teaches physics and all calclus you need to get by it.</p>
<p>Also, trigonometry is learned in Math B in NYC. :D</p>
<p>I would probably say physics is more important, since it is on the MCAT and you do need 2 semesters of it to apply to med school. But some straight med programs don't require it, so I'm not sure what you're looking for when asking that question.</p>