econ and stats toward 'math' in bcpm?

[sunset823]

I am taking calculus-based economics, as well as a statistics class, for a policy degree. Though these are obviously not explicitly 'science', they are both quite math heavy, so I was wondering if they would count toward bcpm on amcas.

In undergrad my stats class counted as a 'Bachelor of Science' class, as well as calc-based intermediate econ (which is basically the same as the class I'm taking)

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[Robizzle]

stats definitely, i'll let someone else answer bout econ

 

[Depakote]

Stats definately. I believe Econ falls under the category of a "Social Science" and would not be considered in BCPM calculations.

 

[CaramelDlite]

As an Econ major let me say I was very tempted to count some of my Economics classes as math, particularly my financial investments and game theory class which were almost completely numbers based. I called AMCAS and they said I could count whatever I wanted towards my BCPM. In the end I didnt because I didnt want it to appear as if my manner of counting classes as math was inconsistent and favorable to my BCPM gpa, ultimately however, its your call.

 

[63768]

as someone else said, econ is considered social science. despite the fact that econometrics and mathematical economics were the most difficult, math-intensive courses i've ever taken (10x harder than vector calc and linear alg combined), i don't think those would be considered mathematics courses.

so stats will probably be considered BCPM, but not econ. too much of a grey area there.

 

[as06]

I agree with the other posters -- I counted my econ courses, even the calc based ones, as social science.

 

[Dr.Acula]

statistics for sure

 

[Jennyollio]

What about psychological statistics? I'm a psych major so I had to take that. Also, what about physiological psychology? It was tons of biology.

 

[TakingBakSunday]

as long as you can defend it during an interview then you can add it to your BCPM average. engineers can typically pick and choose since their classes might involve a lot of calculus or biological information (for BMEs). computer science could count if you're doing mathematical modeling in a particular class. A for-loop is not math though.

 

[sentry]

I counted econometrics and mathematical economics as bcpm -- everything else I didn't. I too had several econ classes where the professor seriously walked in the door the first day, started writing equations, and didn't stop until the last day of class -- but I didn't want someone to think I was trying to cheat, so I just left it as a social science.

 

[sunset823]

Thanks for the advice - I will do stats, but not econ - I figured that econ would be hard to get away with, and the advice from the econ majors has proved that.

As for computer science, I took AP C++ programming in high school; the most complex math we got on there was basic algebra, haha, so I doubt that it would count unless you're dealing with complex systems that might have some biological relevance. I just feel that for the level of math needed for game theory and advanced econ, it's unfair to not count that and count comp-sci.