Bcpm Gpa

[godofwine]

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Hola,

Any idea if O. Chem counts for the BCPM? Also how about labs that are separate from the lecture? For example I know microbiology (3hrs) goes towards BCPM, but how about my corequisite microlab that is a separate 2 hr course? Lastly, would the pre-cal I took before Cal I and II count for the math portion of the BCPM?

Muchas gracias,

-godofwine

 

[kovalchuk]

Hola,

Any idea if O. Chem counts for the BCPM? Also how about labs that are separate from the lecture? For example I know microbiology (3hrs) goes towards BCPM, but how about my corequisite microlab that is a separate 2 hr course? Lastly, would the pre-cal I took before Cal I and II count for the math portion of the BCPM?

Muchas gracias,

-godofwine

If anything counts, it's OChem with its little laboratory friend (and all science courses' little friends for that matter).

Pre-calc - good question. I would think it would still count because it's under math.

 

[ashabee4]

If you took pre-calc in college, I'm pretty sure it'll count towards your bcpm gpa. All math courses taken in college (and ALL science courses as well, including labs) count towards the bcpm gpa. If you are talking about a high school pre-calc course in which you got college credit for, it may be different. Some schools don't take that kind of credit.

 

[relentless11]

If lower-division statistics counts as math, pre-calc will. BCPM GPA is pretty generalized, so be liberal about it. When you start getting into like Nutrition classes, then it gets weird. I remember asking my advisor this, but don't remember what the reply was. I think depended on the course description rather than the subject area.

 

[DrBowtie]

All the listed courses count.

 

[happydays]

BCMP= Biology, Chemistry, math and physics.

Is Ochem chemistry? Is chem lab Chemistry? Is precalc Math? There you go.

 

[dbhvt]

If you took pre-calc in college, I'm pretty sure it'll count towards your bcpm gpa. All math courses taken in college (and ALL science courses as well, including labs) count towards the bcpm gpa. If you are talking about a high school pre-calc course in which you got college credit for, it may be different. Some schools don't take that kind of credit.

Even if the school doesn't take the credit, it still counts in your AMCAS GPA. Any class you ever took at any post-secondary institution counts toward your AMCAS GPA. If you took a spanish class at the community college when you were 5, it counts. And as happydays said, if it's biology, chemistry, physics or math, it counts towards bcpm.

 

[87138]

What about a Human Functional Anatomy class/lab (complete with two cadavers), but it was offered under the Kinesiology department and not Biology. Would that count towards BCPM?

 

[relentless11]

What about a Human Functional Anatomy class/lab (complete with two cadavers), but it was offered under the Kinesiology department and not Biology. Would that count towards BCPM?

Thats probably bio. Some schools call it kinesiology, others (like here) call it exercise biology.

 

[87138]

Thats probably bio. Some schools call it kinesiology, others (like here) call it exercise biology.

Good, I hope so, because I aced that class, and then TA'd it (and got to play with the cadavers).

 

[Zoom-Zoom]

Good, I hope so, because I aced that class, and then TA'd it (and got to play with the cadavers).

Yeah that one should count. My understanding is that it is kind of up to your interpretation. When you list the classes there are other classifications, so if your class falls better into the BCPM classes than like a social science, I wouldn't hesitate to put it as BCPM. Like everything else on your application, though, you want to use good judgement so as to not look like your trying to pull a fast one.

I havn't filled out an AMCAS yet though so don't take my word for it.

 

[chandelantern]

Yeah that one should count. My understanding is that it is kind of up to your interpretation. When you list the classes there are other classifications, so if your class falls better into the BCPM classes than like a social science, I wouldn't hesitate to put it as BCPM. Like everything else on your application, though, you want to use good judgement so as to not look like your trying to pull a fast one.

I havn't filled out an AMCAS yet though so don't take my word for it.

That's pretty much it. It's a subjective thing, but be consistant and ready to back it up. My advisor said to count a class as biology, no matter what department it was in, at least 50% of the course content should be biology (so several of our psych classes for example, like comparative neuroanatomy) would be classified as biology.) AMCAS instructions list nutrition courses as "health sciences" so that does NOT count in your BCPM gpa. the AMCAS instructions also give category classifications for other courses, so follow that as best you can (because they verify and will change it anyway.)