<p>is this somehting that most schools put on their transcript, or do med schools just go through and calculate it?</p>
<p>AMCAS will calculate your science GPA after you send them your transcript.</p>
<p>does it have to be listed in the "math or science" department in order to be counted- i took a class in statistics that a student can either count in MATH or CORE (as a school distribution requirement)....its the same course, half the class takes it as a math class and half as a CORE...will the AMCAS calculate this if i took it as a CORE?</p>
<p>Probably. AMCAS verifiers only have a couple of clues from which they will judge whether something is a science course: the department the course is listed in and the title of the course. So it'll help if it's in the math department but it's not a prerequisite.</p>
<p>does that work the same with the english requirement? because at my school the first year student seminars are writing classes, but again not listed within the english department.</p>
<p>You can probably get English classes to count for any writing requirements med schools may have but probably not the other way around. At my school, the writing seminars span a variety of departments (from math all the way to English). Some of the ones in the math department had more math than writing so I doubt they would be counted as English.</p>
<p>Sorry to post twice in a row but I received the NYU secondary today and they specifically addressed this question:</p>
<p>Q: Can I submit an intense writing course as the English requirement? </p>
<p>A: Only if it is given through the English, Literature, Philosophy or Humanities department.</p>
<p>My two English courses were Writing 20 and English 100. NYU didn't complain.</p>
<p>do you need have to englsih courses completed by the end of your jr year when you start applying to med schools, or can you take them senior year, since they arent necesary for the mcat</p>
<p>You don't need them completed by time of application, just by the time you matriculate.</p>
<p>However. English as a subject is at LEAST as important as organic chemistry, physics, etc. for the MCAT. Now, if you happen to be proficient at English going in, all the better. But certainly English skills are the most important component of the exam -- even the science portions.</p>
<p>Too, you don't want to put off too many of your prerequisites into your senior year. Math is not at all on the MCAT, but taking too many required courses your senior year gives admissions committees less of a track record to work with.</p>
<p>Do engineering courses get counted in the science gpa ever? I mean, they ARE essentially classes about the real-world applications of science and math...</p>
<p>Biomedical engineering classes can apparently be counted in BCPM should you so choose. I would advise an all-or-nothing approach.</p>
<p>Other engineerings fall into the "Engineering" category.</p>
<p>"should I so choose?"</p>
<p>Ha, how does that work? I thought norcalguy said that AMCAS calculates your science gpa for you? or does this mean that you just input whichever classes you deem as BCPM and AMCAS will calculate from that?</p>
<p>You put in which classes you consider to be BCPM or not. AMCAS will make corrections, and they are not flexible.</p>
<p>However, BME courses can apparently be listed either as biology or engineering, one of very few situations where you have this flexibility.</p>
<p>Again, I recommend an all-or-nothing approach. Don't want to seem like you're cherry picking.</p>