Bio Class

[Illinidoc3]

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Hey, I know this has been talked about before, but I have a question on whether this class (BIO 154) counts towards science GPA. i KNOW that it's a biology class and should count but it's specifically for non majors and i'm just taking it over the summer for something to do and it's free (long story on that). The actual class is called general human biology and I didn't know whether just because it says biology in the course name (BIO 154) it counts a science GPA even though its spec. for non-pre med people.


Thanks for your help

 

[ERDOtobe11]

is calculus in the science gpa? i doubt that bio class is counted in the science gpa if its for non majors

 

[swamprat]

It is called BIO my money is yes it is counted in your sGPA

 

[MLT2MT2DO]

Hey, I know this has been talked about before, but I have a question on whether this class (BIO 154) counts towards science GPA. i KNOW that it's a biology class and should count but it's specifically for non majors and i'm just taking it over the summer for something to do and it's free (long story on that). The actual class is called general human biology and I didn't know whether just because it says biology in the course name (BIO 154) it counts a science GPA even though its spec. for non-pre med people.


Thanks for your help

"yes", the credits can also count as part of your pre-req

 

[engineeredout]

If offered by the bio department, and especially if you did well, its science.

 

[The Poet Sings]

what about a physics course that is intended as an introduction to physics without calculus? it is in the physics department, but it is lower level than the pre-req physics. thoughts?

 

[infomercialscam]

Hi,

The ostensibly calculus-based introductory physics book by Knight is not really a calculus-based book. Sure, integrals and derivatives pop up here and there, but the vast majority of the problems can be solved without them, and calculus is hardly emphasized at all in most of the text and examples. The few problems that do use calculus are generally the hard ones near the end of the problem set, and with very little in the text to prepare them for these problems it's hard to assign them.

 

[Revilla]

Hey, I know this has been talked about before, but I have a question on whether this class (BIO 154) counts towards science GPA. i KNOW that it's a biology class and should count but it's specifically for non majors and i'm just taking it over the summer for something to do and it's free (long story on that). The actual class is called general human biology and I didn't know whether just because it says biology in the course name (BIO 154) it counts a science GPA even though its spec. for non-pre med people.


Thanks for your help

Yes, it counts in your science GPA. I'm a non-traditional student and when I was in undergrad the first time, I was a journalism major. I took a non-majors Bio class to meet the science requirement for my Bachelor's. When I filled out my AACOMAS, that non-majors class was counted as part of my science GPA.

Science is science. It doesn't matter if it's for majors or non-majors. Even astronomy counts as part of your science GPA and I would guess most Intro to Astronomy classes are for non-majors.

 

[MLT2MT2DO]

what about a physics course that is intended as an introduction to physics without calculus? it is in the physics department, but it is lower level than the pre-req physics. thoughts?

You're fine...a matter of fact the MCAT goes off of Trig Based Physics

 

[211519]

Anything with "BIO" in the course name/number counts as a Biological Science and will be part of your sGPA.

I had a Core class (which at my school means a lit/reading/essay class) called Science and Human Nature: Biological Sciences. It wasn't even really science at all, but it counted in AACOMAS.