<p>I am a second year biology student interested in going into graduate studies. I went to a few grad school websites to do a little bit of research to see what I'm getting myself into. Some schools say that I need two semesters of differential/integral calculus, which probably corresponds to the Math 1/16 series. My problem here is that I started out my freshman year with Math 1B and finished my math requirement for MCB because I APed out of Math 1A. Do grad schools take AP credit as part of the two semester requirement? If not, I was thinking of taking Math 53 sometime soon. I will also be taking a biostats class as an elective for the MCB major as well but I figured it doesn't fit into the category of "calculus". </p>
<p>I wasn't really sure if grad schools work like med schools where they require you to take all the premed classes in college with no AP credit.</p>
<p>For biology graduate school, your AP credit for calculus should be sufficient. I am a graduate school bound IB major, and I just skipped out of math altogether.</p>
<p>Biology graduate school program care much more for statistics than they do for calculus. Any statistics course will do, and it doesn’t matter where you take it. I took Stat XB2 (this is the equivalent of Stat 2) online through Extension this past summer.</p>
<p>Does it look bad to graduate schools (biology programs) if you take neither college level math nor statistics?</p>
<p>dunno, graduate school programs are most interested in relevant biology coursework</p>
<p>So would you say just taking a biostats class would be enough? Also I’m planning on going into research in BMB-related areas, would you say there would still be a preference for a stats class?</p>
<p>I’m almost certain biology graduate school cares basically only about coursework (i.e. that you know some good stuff) and that you’ve done plenty of good research. I hear the latter being strong weighs much more strongly than the former.</p>