<p>Would Calculus one and calculus 2 meet the requirements?
I don't want to take statistics and my counselor told me to take college algebra instead of Statistics.</p>
<p>yes, just need two 2 semesters of math unless school specifically requires stats (don't know which schools do)</p>
<p>UCLA only, I believe.</p>
<p>Irvine too. Probably more schools as well.</p>
<p>I have never heard of a medical school that required college algebra, and it is inconceivable that you would need it in med school or in practice. It sounds interesting and useful in many mathematically oriented fields, but medicine is not one of them.</p>
<p>1.) It depends on what the OP means by "college algebra". Apparently some schools still offer the kind of algebra that comes before calculus, not after it.</p>
<p>2.) It depends on why the advisor suggested algebra instead of stats; it sounded to me like the OP didn't like statistics. (Unfortunately, you can't avoid stats in medical school.) In that case the advisor may be right that it would be an acceptable substitute for meeting bare requirements.</p>
<p>usually when med schools are talking about math, they're referring to a year of calculus, and in some cases, a year of stats in addition (a few UCs, some ivy leagues i believe)</p>
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<p>college algebra is a pre req for calculus. it goes College algebra, Pre calculus, then calculus one and then calculus 2. I'll probably end up taking cal 2 at a university because right now I am at a CC</p>
<p>Okay, be serious here, people! You'll need statistics in a med career lots more than calculus. You'll NEED statistics.</p>
<p>BDM,</p>
<p>You were right. I was thinking of "college algebra" as "highly theoretical algebra taken by math majors after multivariable calculus and linear algebra. Rarely taken by people outside of mathematically oriented majors". </p>
<p>If it is a prerequisite for calculus, then, since you need calculus, you need the prerequisites.</p>
<p>very few REQUIRE a full year of CALCULUS (only). very few schools REQUIRE a full year of MATH (any blend). If you have AP credit a few schools may take it (harvard) if you got a 5 in AP Calc BC. others will not AP credit at all.</p>
<p>I know that AP is generally frowned upon from med schools for calculus, but what about statistics? would a school that requires or strongly reccomends stats take that AP credit?</p>
<p>Any school which refuses AP Credit for calculus (most) would also refuse it for statistics.</p>