Does anyone know if this is going to work?
Or is it just one year of calculus?
Going to take the so-called “short” calculus like Socialstudy/Lifescience Calculus along with generic Statistics class.
Some schools don’t require mathematics. However, top med schools like Harvard, Hopkins, UCLA David Geffen require mathematics.
Such schools are:
http://hms.harvard.edu/departments/admissions/applying/requirements-admission
http://medschool.ucla.edu/apply-prerequisites
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/som/admissions/md/application_process/prerequisites_requirements.html
Thank you very much!
You need statistics. Statistics questions are included in all sections of the MCAT.
Plus a number of medicals schools “strongly recommend” or require a stats class for admission.
You will take statistics again in med school–and (according to both my Ds), the individuals who struggle most with this are the one who never had a stats class in undergrad. Stats in med school proceeds at a very rapid pace.
I am going to take Stats!
There is one stats class in schedule ahead for me.
Thank you very much for your advice
Calculus for Life Sciences + Biostatistics (or basic stats/stats applied to the life sciences) are necessary to do well on the MCAT and form the “1 year of math” requirement. Do not take “Stats for Business”, not only because the examples aren’t relevant, but also because the types of stats you study aren’t the ones you’ll need in med school.
It’s a generic Stats course. There isn’t biostats provided at my college
However, there is Business Stats available, but I won’ take that course.
Very few med schools explicitly require calc 2. So one semester of calc and one semester of statistics should work for most schools.
However, if you wish to use AP credit to completely take care of the requirement, that is not necessarily going to suffice. Med schools would typically like to see a college letter grade for any discipline where AP credit was received.
@umcoe16 Thank you very much, hopefully, I will try to take one semester of short Calculus (for Life Science/Social Science) or just conventional Calculus.