Classify towards AMCAS science gpa?

[effectedtag]

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The AMCAS class classification is pretty vague.

Would a Cognitive neuroscience class count towards science GPA if it listed in the psychology department?

Additionally, there is a statistics course for behavioral sciences once again in the psychology department.

Would these two courses count toward the science GPA?

 

[Wahkoon]

Short answer: yes

The applicant guide states to "Please select course classifications based on the primary content of the course"

So the Cognitive Neuroscience would likely fall under the Neuroscience classification in the Biology category, and the statistics course under Statistics/Biostatistics within the Mathematics category. Evaluate based on content, not on department.

 

[Catalystik]

The AMCAS class classification is pretty vague.

Would a Cognitive neuroscience class count towards science GPA if it listed in the psychology department?

It depends on the description of the class in the online course catalog and whether the descriptive words are weighted at least 50% toward hard science. If you classify it as BIO and AMCAS changes it to PSY, then you have the recourse of appealing the decision by providing the link to the course catalog entry.

 

[effectedtag]

It depends on the description of the class in the online course catalog and whether the descriptive words are weighted at least 50% toward hard science. If you classify it as BIO and AMCAS changes it to PSY, then you have the recourse of appealing the decision by providing the link to the course catalog entry.

The neuroscience course has the following description "Survey of neural basis of cognitive processes; perceptual and motor systems, attention, memory, symbolic representation, executive control of behavior".

And the statistical method class in behavioral science has the following description "Introduction to statistical inference, probability distributions, sampling, hypothesis testing, correlation and analysis of variance".

 

[Catalystik]

The neuroscience course has the following description "Survey of neural basis of cognitive processes; perceptual and motor systems, attention, memory, symbolic representation, executive control of behavior".

And the statistical method class in behavioral science has the following description "Introduction to statistical inference, probability distributions, sampling, hypothesis testing, correlation and analysis of variance".

The Stats class will surely pass muster. The Neuroscience class description, I'm not confident of. Better if it had included words like anatomical, biochemical, biocellular, histologic, embryological, etc.

Perhaps current applicants will post their recent experiences with neuroscience coursework classification outcomes.

 

[Doc_Ock]

When you input it to the AMCAS system is PSY or NSC? Basically what's the prefix

 

[Doc_Ock]

The prefix and listing of courses in the applicant guide is just that a guide. Department codes do not, repeat, do not dictate classification. course classification is based on solely on content as in the official college course catalog for the term the course is taken

ehhhhhhh they kinda do, or at least they're a factor. Point is if it starts with NSC it wouldn't be much of an issue, it would be accepted as a science course without any fuss. If it's listed as PSY that's what they're gonna see. It can certainly be done but it will be uphill.
This always has been and always will be an issue with psych courses.

 

[Catalystik]

When you input it to the AMCAS system is PSY or NSC? Basically what's the prefix

If it's greater than 50% hard science, you'd classify it as BIOL under Course Class, regardless of the course number (which you will also provide). For the Stats class, if the course number starts with PSY, you'd call it MATH.