epidemiology as a science course for AMCAS?

[spi11edpaint]

Hi all,

I was just wondering if epidemiology counted as a science course for AMCAS...I know you self-report your GPA, and my premed advisors have said that you have some leeway with that course, but I was just wondering if anyone had any concrete experience (because our premed advisors arent all that helpful in general). I would prefer not to count it as science (I had a very bad second half of the semester and my grades tanked, and as I was taking mostly science courses, that area took a bad hit). However, I am counting stats as science (this is all for next year, btw). Any advice?

Thanks!

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[Droopy Snoopy]

Epidemiology is a public health course, not a science. FYI, even if it happens to be at your undergrad, nobody's going over the 100+ course hours of all 5000+ applicants at medical schools making sure you're all listing things properly. You'll run through hundreds of thousands of dollars and jump through almost as many hoops to get your MD, so don't feel bad about fudging this one a little.

 

[ncbabyblue717]

It can definitely count as a math course, which is what I did this cycle. However, it seems to me that AMCAS cares more about whether all the courses you listed as BCPM courses are indeed BCPM rather than whether your other courses should count as BCPM. I took a class called Vaccine Development and Application which was basically an immunology course with a bit of health policy thrown in, but chose to count it as a Health Sciences instead because it would pull down my science GPA. This being said, I agree with the previous poster that you can count it as something else instead.

 

[Papillon11]

Hi all,

I was just wondering if epidemiology counted as a science course for AMCAS...I know you self-report your GPA, and my premed advisors have said that you have some leeway with that course, but I was just wondering if anyone had any concrete experience (because our premed advisors arent all that helpful in general). I would prefer not to count it as science (I had a very bad second half of the semester and my grades tanked, and as I was taking mostly science courses, that area took a bad hit). However, I am counting stats as science (this is all for next year, btw). Any advice?

Thanks!

Epidemiology is under Health Science.

 

[juls811]

...depends if your school counts it as a bio course or not....

 

[63768]

Epidemiology is under Health Science.

wrd

unless it's listed under bios, chem, phys, or math, it should go under health science.

 

[MedicineNutt]

At my school, epidemiology is listed as an upper-division biology course. So check your school's course schedule, etc.

 

[Papillon11]

At my school, epidemiology is listed as an upper-division biology course. So check your school's course schedule, etc.

The school listed as a Bio course, it doesn't mean that AAMC will count as a Bio course. Plus it depends on the contents of the course. For example, Biology of HIV with Epidemiology may be counted as a Bio course, but not an Epi methodology course.

 

[Sarak510]

I have firsthand experience on this (did my master's in epi). anyways I listed a few epi courses as bio: Infectious disease epi, biology of parasites epi, cancer epi, and genetic epi. But my epi methods courses were listed as other, and I had no corrections on all this. So use your best judgement

 

[Papillon11]

I have firsthand experience on this (did my master's in epi). anyways I listed a few epi courses as bio: Infectious disease epi, biology of parasites epi, cancer epi, and genetic epi. But my epi methods courses were listed as other, and I had no corrections on all this. So use your best judgement

I did the same.

 

[Chuckwalla]

Epi is definetly a science and math class. You should get double for taking it.

 

[Sondra]

Mine was counted as a health science class on the AMCAS. At my school, it was under the college of public health.