Do kinesiology courses count toward your AMCAS/AAMC gpa?

[hawasm]

I'm considering taking a kinesiology course, but I'm not sure whether it'll count toward my recalculated gpa.
It's through the college of health professions, but it requires you to have taken at least Anatomy I. It's name is KNESxxx or whatever.

Does this count as a science class?

Thanks!

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[JRG]

Maybe, depends on the department. I would guess no but it's worth a try. I got two biology courses in the psychology department to count.

Here is a thread that lists all the BCPM courses and a good discussion:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=552026

 

[sector9]

I'm considering taking a kinesiology course, but I'm not sure whether it'll count toward my recalculated gpa.
It's through the college of health professions, but it requires you to have taken at least Anatomy I. It's name is KNESxxx or whatever.

Does this count as a science class?

Thanks!

I think it would go under "Health Sciences" for AMCAS, which wouldn't put it in your BCPM GPA for AMCAS. However, if you felt that over 50% of the class was biology, chemistry, physics, or math, you could try to pass it off as one of those subjects and leave it up to the reviewer to change it

The course is going to be on your AMCAS GPA no matter what (unless the grading is pass/fail), so your thread title is a little misleading

 

[Gnomes]

AMCAS balked at my plant science course being BCPM, so I kinda doubt that kinesiology will fly. But best of luck to you in getting it to count.

 

[hawasm]

thanks for the link!

 

[hawasm]

Maybe, depends on the department. I would guess no but it's worth a try. I got two biology courses in the psychology department to count.

Here is a thread that lists all the BCPM courses and a good discussion:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=552026

thanks for the link!