What classes count towards your science GPA?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>Of course not. You can’t just cherry pick classes. Any classes offered by the biology, chemistry, physics, and math departments are counted in the science GPA.</p>

<p>Stats and biochemistry might be counted even if they’re not offered by those other departments.</p>

<p>Most other applied sciences (like engineering type courses or applied biology like anatomy) won’t count in the science GPA unless they are offered by the physics, biology, chemistry, or math departments. If anatomy was offered by the biology department, it counts. If not, then it doesn’t count.</p>

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<p>How about Biology research? It’s counted as Biology 499 and you get a grade just like any other class. Does that count BCPM?</p>

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<p>what about a psych research course? it’s offered by the psych department.</p>

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<p>No, it won’t be.</p>

<p>Biology
Chemistry
Physics
Math.</p>

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<p>Since med schools don’t care what you major in as long as you do the pre-med pre-reqs, why not major in something rather moderate in difficulty to keep a perfect GPA?</p>

<p>It does seem rather unfair and actually kind of crazy not to be more “GPA forgiving” to a pre-med Chemistry student vs a history student - since the Chem major has to take a lot more classes that affect his/her BCPM GPA. </p>

<p>However, I guess Engineering classes don’t count in BCPM, so while the major is very hard, for some reason Eng’g courses aren’t considered “science” courses.</p>

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<p>While I can understand the concept that you can’t “cherry pick” your BCPM classes for your science GPA, I can understand why someone who has taken BCPM classes “over and above” the req’ts might not want a “stray B” to count against his GPA.</p>

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<p>Re #25: This is largely the point of BCPM, is to override some of that difference. In practice, whatever medical schools are doing, it seems to work – chemistry, history, etc. majors all tend to get into medical school at very similar rates.</p>

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<p>* chemistry, history, etc. majors all tend to get into medical school at very similar rates*</p>

<p>What are the rates for each major?</p>

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<p>You can see that the pools for applicants and acceptances are pretty uniform here:
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