<p>is that included in your science g.p.a for med school.s what about the 2 writing terms that med schools require. wat does that fit into? Allso im taking an enviromental science seminar does that count in my science g.p.a</p>
<p>Yes to the first one, no to the second. The distinction between science GPA and overall GPA is not very important though - you should be taking classes that will raise your overall GPA. </p>
<p>Also...I thought med schools only required Expos. Oh well...Dartmouth likes to make us take unnecessary credits (i.e. Freshman Seminar).</p>
<p>EDIT: I just saw the other thread, and Neuroscience isn't going to count actually. It's offered as a PSYC course, although in some places, it's offered under the Biology moniker. PSYC's still a good major for med school though.</p>
<p>Yes, neuroscience counts as a bio course, so it will be included in BCPM. However, environmental sciences counts as a "natural science", and is not included in BCPM.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.aamc.org/students/amcas/amcas2009instructionmanual072808.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.aamc.org/students/amcas/amcas2009instructionmanual072808.pdf</a>
Look at pages 53-58 for the course designations.</p>
<p>As for the writing courses, they can either be through the english/writing/etc. department or can be a "writing intensive" course in another (usually non-science) department. As long as it is indicated on your transcript to be a writing-based course, it should count.</p>
<p>so if a humanities class is denoted as writing intensive, then it will count for the requirement?</p>
<p>Yep - I fulfilled that requirement with writing intensive philosophy and history courses.</p>
<p>Do kinesiology courses count as BCPM? The kinesiology courses at my school are in their own department (kinesiology) and their course titles are all like human physiology, human motor systems, human nutrition, human anatomy, histology, human metabolism, etc. Just looking at the titles, you'd possibly think they belonged to bio department. But I wonder if the fact that they are not in department of bio, chem, physics, or math disqualify them for BCPM.</p>
<p>On page 62 of <a href="http://www.aamc.org/students/amcas/amcas2009instructionmanual072808.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.aamc.org/students/amcas/amcas2009instructionmanual072808.pdf</a> I saw that kinesiology is treated as health science which isn't BCPM, but then histology, anatomy, etc. falls under biology which is BCPM. Then how should you treat kinesiology courses with such titles?</p>
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<p>Nope - you can label them as bio courses if you feel their content is more appropriately designated as biology. The one problem is that your AMCAS verifier may see things differently and change it back. But for the obvious ones like histo, anatomy, etc, it should be fine. The only thing you can do is try.</p>