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SpinEcho13
Hey guys, I have a quick question:
I am a Biomedical Engineering major, and as such a lot of my classes are within the BME department but are basically the exact same as the comparable class in the Bio or Chem depts.
Therefore, I am wondering what to put on my science GPA and what to exclude, and if there is a commonly accepted strategy. Currently, I have calculated my cumulative GPA and my science GPA with ONLY courses from the B C P and M departments, giving me a 3.77 cumulative and a 3.78 science. 3.76 non science.
I could easily add some classes such as Biostatistics (BME dept, but just a stat class) and Intro to Materials Science (gen chem all over again) that would raise my science GPA, but then my non science would drop. Is this worth it?
What would you guys do? Is it worth getting my science GPA to about a 3.85 while dropping the non-science to a 3.6something? I am a BME major and have only taken a few "humanities" classes so I am worried that a low non science would point me out as being weak in the soft skills areas, but then again, my VR and PS and interviews should all be above average as well.
Finally, I want to minimize delays in AMCAS processing, so I will not claim anything ridiculous, but does AMCAS ever get mad at you for NOT including a class as science GPA? For example, I took Diff. Eqs but it was thru the engineering dept under "Engineering Analysis" so I would have no idea how any school would ever know it was really a math class... is this an issue?
In summary...
1.) is raising science worth lowering non-science?
2.) do these classifications seem appropriate?: (obviously I only want the A classes in, unless I absolutely have to include the others.)
BME Biothermodynamics (B+) (nonscience)
BME Biostatistics (A) (science)
Intro to MatSci (A) (science)
3.) where would you put the following courses:
BME Intro to Medical Imaging (physics of medical imaging)
BME Magnetic Resonance Imaging (spin physics class basically)
ECE Fundamentals of Electromagnetism and Photonics (physics)
Sorry for the novel... :-/ Please help me out.
I am a Biomedical Engineering major, and as such a lot of my classes are within the BME department but are basically the exact same as the comparable class in the Bio or Chem depts.
Therefore, I am wondering what to put on my science GPA and what to exclude, and if there is a commonly accepted strategy. Currently, I have calculated my cumulative GPA and my science GPA with ONLY courses from the B C P and M departments, giving me a 3.77 cumulative and a 3.78 science. 3.76 non science.
I could easily add some classes such as Biostatistics (BME dept, but just a stat class) and Intro to Materials Science (gen chem all over again) that would raise my science GPA, but then my non science would drop. Is this worth it?
What would you guys do? Is it worth getting my science GPA to about a 3.85 while dropping the non-science to a 3.6something? I am a BME major and have only taken a few "humanities" classes so I am worried that a low non science would point me out as being weak in the soft skills areas, but then again, my VR and PS and interviews should all be above average as well.
Finally, I want to minimize delays in AMCAS processing, so I will not claim anything ridiculous, but does AMCAS ever get mad at you for NOT including a class as science GPA? For example, I took Diff. Eqs but it was thru the engineering dept under "Engineering Analysis" so I would have no idea how any school would ever know it was really a math class... is this an issue?
In summary...
1.) is raising science worth lowering non-science?
2.) do these classifications seem appropriate?: (obviously I only want the A classes in, unless I absolutely have to include the others.)
BME Biothermodynamics (B+) (nonscience)
BME Biostatistics (A) (science)
Intro to MatSci (A) (science)
3.) where would you put the following courses:
BME Intro to Medical Imaging (physics of medical imaging)
BME Magnetic Resonance Imaging (spin physics class basically)
ECE Fundamentals of Electromagnetism and Photonics (physics)
Sorry for the novel... :-/ Please help me out.
