another BCMP question... Behavioral Neuroscience

[luv2sd]

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Would "Behavioral Neuroscience" be considered as BCMP?

the course description is "Intensive survey of the morphological, neurochemical, and physiological aspects of behavior."

and what about psychology? I'm guessing psychology is not considered as BCMP am I correct?

 

[leopanther]

Would "Behavioral Neuroscience" be considered as BCMP?

the course description is "Intensive survey of the morphological, neurochemical, and physiological aspects of behavior."

and what about psychology? I'm guessing psychology is not considered as BCMP am I correct?

Behavioral Neuro should be. Psychology is not BCMP.

 

[Jaded03]

Would "Behavioral Neuroscience" be considered as BCMP?

I can vouch for this. I was verified with no corrections listing this as BCMP. GL!

 

[shantster]

If you read their accompanying manual, they list neuroscience under biological sciences.

 

[PreMed4Dummies]

as a neuroscience major, my understanding is that classes listed under Neuroscience depts are counted towards BCPM and classes under psych are not (at least this is what the pre-health dept told me).

 

[postbacker]

as a neuroscience major, my understanding is that classes listed under Neuroscience depts are counted towards BCPM and classes under psych are not (at least this is what the pre-health dept told me).

You got incorrect, or at least incomplete, advice.

Course content, not dept title, determines BCMP status. If you think a class should be BCMP, submit it to AMCAS - they make the final call anyway - let them decide.

 

[luv2sd]

You got incorrect, or at least incomplete, advice.

Course content, not dept title, determines BCMP status. If you think a class should be BCMP, submit it to AMCAS - they make the final call anyway - let them decide.

yeah this class was listed under psychology department lol
I knew psychology didn't count as BCMP and that's why I asked

 

[chickenlittle84]

I had a Behavioral Neurobiology course listed as Biology and AMCAS changed it to BESS. However, this course was certainly biology and required a year of biology and chemistry as pre-requisites, so I submitted an academic change request and am still waiting...I think it just depends who your verifier is...Behavioral seems to be a trigger word for BESS.

 

[postbacker]

I had a Behavioral Neurobiology course listed as Biology and AMCAS changed it to BESS. However, this course was certainly biology and required a year of biology and chemistry as pre-requisites, so I submitted an academic change request and am still waiting...I think it just depends who your verifier is...Behavioral seems to be a trigger word for BESS.

How long have you been waiting? That is one of my concerns, getting into some sort of pissin' match with AMCAS over something like a BCPM course.

I have a couple of classes that fall into the grey area, and I intend to submit them as BCPM, but unless they hose me with something like you mentioned, I doubt if I will fight them over it...

 

[EyeballLove]

Would "Behavioral Neuroscience" be considered as BCMP?

the course description is "Intensive survey of the morphological, neurochemical, and physiological aspects of behavior."

and what about psychology? I'm guessing psychology is not considered as BCMP am I correct?

I submitted as BCMP and was verified as BCMP

 

[riverwoman1040]

You got incorrect, or at least incomplete, advice.

Course content, not dept title, determines BCMP status. If you think a class should be BCMP, submit it to AMCAS - they make the final call anyway - let them decide.

Unfortunately AMCAS doesn't really know what the course content is. I took a Psychobiology class that was largely biological in nature and it was changed from BCMP, presumably because it was a psych class.

 

[chickenlittle84]

How long have you been waiting? That is one of my concerns, getting into some sort of pissin' match with AMCAS over something like a BCPM course.

I have a couple of classes that fall into the grey area, and I intend to submit them as BCPM, but unless they hose me with something like you mentioned, I doubt if I will fight them over it...

I submitted the academic change request the same day I was verified, the 27th, and haven't heard anything back. I just explained that it requires a year of intro bio, is a core course for the neurobiology major, and that professors consider it a bio course and cut and pasted the course description into the box. I also called AMCAS to find out if there is anything else I can do to ensure this mistake is corrected, but they were pretty unhelpful and not at all sensitive. I think I overreacted when I saw it, but I got really upset because it makes a big difference to my very borderline BCPM GPA, and I never would have taken that class if it didn't count, etc. In any case, they say it can take up to 15 days, but it will probably take more like a week. At least I hope it won't take more than a week!