Do I need to take Calculus 2 for med school?

[bellomiss]

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I am a pre-med student I just took Calculus I and I got an A. I also took statistics and also got an A. But do I need to take Calculus II for med school or can I just stop taking math courses?

 

[protego]

Nope. In my experience I've seen a few schools that ask for a year of math but statistics classes count for that. I only took Calc 1 and have not run into any problems.

 

[TheBiologist]

not at any med school I've seen; the most I've seen is a "year of math to include the study of calculus and statistics" which means calc 1 and stats 1; some schools seem like they let you do calc 1 & 2 OR stats 1 & 2 but first semester of both is pretty safe

 

[treesnm3s]

Most don't even ask for Calc 1, just Stats.

 

[Catalystik]

I am a pre-med student I just took Calculus I and I got an A. I also took statistics and also got an A. But do I need to take Calculus II for med school or can I just stop taking math courses?

Last time I counted, there were only 5 schools wanting Calc II.

 

[takeurmeds02]

Calc II is the biggest waste of time. Research your schools' requirements, otherwise be free.

 

[aldol16]

Calc II is the biggest waste of time. Research your schools' requirements, otherwise be free.

Not to go off topic, but it's pretty hard to appreciate the true beauty of Maxwell's equations without knowing integral calculus. But then again, most pre-meds take algebra-based physics.

 

[takeurmeds02]

Not to go off topic, but it's pretty hard to appreciate the true beauty of Maxwell's equations without knowing integral calculus. But then again, most pre-meds take algebra-based physics.

Get it all away from me. That was actually my hardest class in UG. Not sure why but it was.

 

[Catalystik]

Do you recall which ones?

Schools requiring two semesters of Calculus were Hopkins, WashU, Case Western MSTP, Virginia Tech, and Harvard, but it looks like all of them have allowed a semester of Statistics to substitute, or less. Unless things change again.
http://www.brynmawr.edu/healthpro/documents/USMDSchoolsMathRequirements-May2016.pdf