Engineering Course BCPM

[metallicsponge]

Can I count a Bioengineering Course as BCPM?? Its a stock biophysics course, but my school doesn't have a Biophys dept.

I would also like to add that the prefix of the course is Bioengineering--one of two Bioengineering courses I took. However, I would only include the one I got an A in and not the one I got a B in (the B was in a computational bioinformatics course that basically studied the application of various programming algorithms to biological problems)

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[236116]

try it.

 

[RySerr21]

hmmmm, not really sure what theyll do on that one. Technically you can categorize any course any way youd like. There isnt a punishment for incorrectly classifying it. If you want a course to categorized a certain way (but you know its kind of iffy), then just label it that way and if AMCAS disagrees they will change it.

 

[Sleipnir]

Sort of related, what exactly defines a BCPM class? Does this include physical sciences, such as engineering computer science courses?

 

[jetspeeder]

i studied engineering and some class u can classify as BPCM, if AMCAS doesn't agree they'll change it. classes such as such as 'probability' i classified as BPCM although it was offered by the engr dept and other classes with titles 'engineering physics' also offered by the engr dept. good luk, pm me if u have ne questions.

 

[236116]

Sort of related, what exactly defines a BCPM class? Does this include physical sciences, such as engineering computer science courses?

No.

On page 40-something of the AMCAS application guide, there is a list of course classifications. It's also been c&p'd to SDN.

Engineering is NOT BCMP... but since the OP's class is biophysics he might be able to get away with it being taught in engineering, as biophysics is considered biology.

 

[Day man]

Mark the classes you earned high grades in as BCPM, and if they disagree they'll change it. That's what I did, and my undergrad major was biomedical engineering. Best of luck.

 

[236116]

Mark the classes you earned high grades in as BCPM, and if they disagree they'll change it. That's what I did, and my undergrad major was biomedical engineering. Best of luck.

That doesn't sound sketchy at all.

 

[Bacchus]

Might as well try. I had some 1-semester courses that where designated CHemistry but really had nothing to do with chemistry and they were counted. Try, they can always change it.

 

[WeAreNotRobots]

That doesn't sound sketchy at all.

ha! they will re-categorize anything they need to...and you will NOT be able to pull a fast one on them. i would try to list them all correctly, as it may cause a brief delay in verifying your app.

start on pg 52:
http://www.aamc.org/students/amcas/a...nual072808.pdf

 

[Fp02c]

If it helps your BCMP just go ahead and mark it as such. Assume they will change it and if they dont well... good for you. I set a few of my engineering classes as BCMP and they did not change anything.

For example I got away with putting my hydrodynamics and circuit classes as physics. I consider alot of the intruductory engineering classes as upperlevel physics and chemistry. I also got away with setting my engineering differential equations class as Engineering and not BCMP (Got a C+). This has not come up at all throughout my interviews.