<p>I'm going to be a freshman this fall at Syracuse University and my summer adviser recommended me to do two years of Life Sciences Calculus over normal Calculus since I am going into pre med.</p>
<p>Would medical schools have a preference of which class to take?</p>
<p>I've been hearing that Life Sciences Calculus is much easier than normal calculus. I've taken Calc I and II in high school, but I barely passed those. Seeing as I need a 4.0 in my calc classes in college which of these two classes would be easier?</p>
<p>What are some examples of how Life Science Calculus is different from normal calculus I?</p>
<p>take life science calc. Med schools dont care. Life science calc is easier.</p>
<p>Oh ok. What makes Life Science Calculus easier? Are there less word problems and easier normal number problems?</p>
<p>Can you give me some examples? thanks!</p>
<p>hahaha I have yet to take it. All of my friends who have taken life sciences calc have said that its a joke compared to regular calc. First 2 years I have been taking all the upper level classes for my major and my basic pre-med classes (its been hell). Looking foreword to taking mostly easy GERs my junior and senior year.</p>
<p>I took calculus for bio sci at my school and the consensus was that it was harder than the calculus course for engineers… go figure. The reason it was harder was because it wasn’t straight calculus most of the time (double integrals, partial derivatives, etc were easy), but the hard stuff was the random bio stuff they threw at you. i.e. lotka voltera model, predator prey models, leslie matrixes, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, harmonic oscillators to name a few.</p>
<p>Take Life Sciences Calculus if you have to take Calculus. In my four years of medical school I never once encountered a Calculus problem or even a Math problem that could not be solved using high school Algebra. It was the same story in Residency, even though I was a Nuclear Medicine resident, and have never had to use it practicing medicine. It is not that I do not know Calculus, my undergraduate major was Astrophysics, it is just that Calculus is not relevant to studying or practicing medicine.</p>