LACs with bioinformatics/biostatistics

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<p>^^I was curious about that and did a very quick and admittedly dirty search of various PhD programs in bioinformatics, including, Stanford, Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill, Harvard, and Yale and as far as I could tell, not one of them expects prospective students to have a BS degree, much less one in bioinformatics.</p>

<p>Typical is this overview from Stanford:</p>

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All of our degree programs have the same prerequisites. Note that these are the minimum requirements needed to be able to begin graduate-level coursework in our program and that many applicants exceed them. The prerequisites are shown, along with the equivalent Stanford courses:</p>

<p>One year of calculus. Further coursework in multivariate calculus (MATH 51 and MATH 52) is strongly recommended.
Coursework in probability and statistics (HRP 259), and linear algebra (MATH 104 or MATH 113).
One year of computer programming/computer science coursework (CS 106A and CS 106B). The focus should be fundamentals of computer science and software engineering principles, including abstraction, modularity, and object-oriented programming, not merely the syntax of a programming language, scripting, or web programming.
One year of college biology at the level required of biology majors (BIO 41, BIO 42, and BIO 43, and corresponding laboratory BIO 44X).

<a href=“http://bmi.stanford.edu/prospective-students/prerequisites.html[/url]”>http://bmi.stanford.edu/prospective-students/prerequisites.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;