<p>I will be a pre-med student majoring in something neuroscience-related and I am aware that I will need to take Calc I & II to satisfy both major requirements and pre-med requirements but I was wondering if it is a good idea to take some math courses that are above basic calculus levels, such as vector & multivariable calc, linear algebra and differential equations. Those courses won't be new to me either because my high school offers all those courses for students who completed AP Calc before their senior years and so I took those courses and got good grades. I was wondering if taking those non-required math courses and maybe even getting a math minor degree will look impressive to med schools (like UCSF School of Medicine or UCLA Med School). I'm sure that taking courses that I took before in high school won't be too stressful and they will boost my GPA but I don't really want to go through that if it will have absolutely no impact in me getting into medical school. Any advice anyone?</p>
<p>Take the math classes if you like math.</p>
<p>Take the math classes if you want the grades to boost your GPA.</p>
<p>Don’t bother taking the math classes to impress adcomms. (They won’t be impressed.)</p>
<p>(There will be other applicants with just as much if not more math classes than you. Some of the adcomm members you will interviewing with have undergrad or advanced degrees in physics, chemistry, biochemistry, statistics, engineering etc --all of whom will have taken more math than you.)</p>