Adding Behavioral Sciences to BCPM?

[deleted600623]

Does anyone know if ADCOMS will be considering adding behavioral sciences to the BCPM GPA now that it will be on the MCAT? Just curious.

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[litotes]

unlikely, since it's not science in the sense that BCPM are

 

[efle]

I dunno, I've certainly had non-BCPM classes (cognitive Neuroscience and cognitive psych) which focused a lot more on research methods and were more sciencey than some fluffy bio coursework like Evolution.

Probably won't see psych or socio added to BCPM though since at most universities those courses award a lot kinder grade distributions and people would abuse this to inflate their sGPA

 

[Doug Underhill]

No, but at least you have a decisive advantage over others on the MCAT.

 

[altblue]

Social sciences aren't really natural sciences like BCPM.

Then again, neither is mathematics.

Probably won't see psych or socio added to BCPM though since at most universities those courses award a lot kinder grade distributions and people would abuse this to inflate their sGPA

Yeah, true, but people at my school are already inflating their sGPA with eco/evo bio, geophysics and astronomy... lol.

 

[deleted600623]

Well they only recommend basic psych and socio for the MCAT so you would only have to consider intro psych and intro socio classes for BCPM not upper level courses. 2 courses arnt going to inflate sGPA that much.

 

[knv2u]

The AAMC posts an application instruction manual every year. I would follow what it says. I would not consider most "behavioral science" classes to be science in the traditional sense. Possible exceptions include statistics, biopsychology, and cognitive science/neuroscience classes which are heavy in neuroanatomy and the biological aspects of those fields. There are some that exist. I would not count clinical psychology, introductory psychology, learning/cognition, social psychology, etc. in that list.

 

[onceawolverine]

Highly doubt that classes listed from a psychology department will count towards a biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics cumulative gpa.. Statistics always counts for BCPM, psych won't, behavioral science likely won't unless it's cross-listed as a "biology" course.