Is this course BCPM?

[Jack-Kennedy35]

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Title: [Future Impact of Nano in New Technologies]

Description: Examination, for general audience, of science behind nanotechnology and way in which nano can potentially influence medical care, environment, energy issues, military, government, and economics. Demonstration of how nano, like current technology, cannot be separated from ethical, cultural, political, and social issues.

This course is part of the honors department and has so specific sub category (bio, chem e.t.c)

@gyngyn @Catalystik @gonnif

Thanks

 

[907914]

Title: [Future Impact of Nano in New Technologies]

Description: Examination, for general audience, of science behind nanotechnology and way in which nano can potentially influence medical care, environment, energy issues, military, government, and economics. Demonstration of how nano, like current technology, cannot be separated from ethical, cultural, political, and social issues.

This course is part of the honors department and has so specific sub category (bio, chem e.t.c)

@gyngyn @Catalystik @gonnif

Thanks

It is BCPM if you get an A. It is not if you get lower than an A.

 

[dr_kateb]

Sounds closer to a social science class than a natural science (BCPM) class to me.

 

[Catalystik]

Title: [Future Impact of Nano in New Technologies]

Description: Examination, for general audience, of science behind nanotechnology and way in which nano can potentially influence medical care, environment, energy issues, military, government, and economics. Demonstration of how nano, like current technology, cannot be separated from ethical, cultural, political, and social issues.

This course is part of the honors department and has so specific sub category (bio, chem e.t.c)

@gyngyn @Catalystik @gonnif

Thanks

The hard science component appears to be in the minority among all the other topics, so I'd opine that it will not be considered BCPM by verifiers.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

It is BCPM if you get an A. It is not if you get lower than an A.

You might be joking, but just in case you’re not, you don’t get to determine whether it’s BCPM or not. You can list it as not if you want, but amcas will change it if they disagree.

 

[chemdoctor]

You might be joking, but just in case you’re not, you don’t get to determine whether it’s BCPM or not. You can list it as not if you want, but amcas will change it if they disagree.

Do you know if AMCAS ever changes what your school lists the course as?

 

[907914]

You might be joking, but just in case you’re not, you don’t get to determine whether it’s BCPM or not. You can list it as not if you want, but amcas will change it if they disagree.

Yes, I was joking. However, it is commonly known that AMCAS doesn’t really change BCPM classification very much on those fuzzy classes.

 

[ciestar]

Do you know if AMCAS ever changes what your school lists the course as?

They can.
One of my nursing courses got switched to BCPM my AMCAS

 

[themightyquinn]

This course is part of the honors department and has so specific sub category (bio, chem e.t.c)

Do you want it to be BCMP? Unless you push for it, and even then it would likely not be considered as such. Having it listed under a science course code BIO, CHM, etc usually goes a long way towards pushing something through. Since this doesn't, and the description makes it as others have said make it more social science/anthro which isn't BCMP. It'll likely be a very uphill battle to get it counted as such.

Do you know if AMCAS ever changes what your school lists the course as?

They do, but if you're trying to force something into BCMP if its course prefix already has it under a BCMP science that's (more than) half the battle and will get the benefit of the doubt over something officially under another department counted as BCMP even if it has more hard science content than the other. In the above case if it was say BIO 315 on his transcript, he'd could probably list it as BCMP and it wouldn't be flagged, and it might even get reclassified as BCMP if he didn't, even though the content was the same.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

Do you know if AMCAS ever changes what your school lists the course as?

As has already been said, yes. They will determine whether it falls under BCPM or not. I know people who have had stuff changed to BCPM and stuff change to non-BCPM. I’m talking like onesie twosie classes here, not a lot.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

Yes, I was joking. However, it is commonly known that AMCAS doesn’t really change BCPM classification very much on those fuzzy classes.

Common or not, it happens. Not something to stress out about because you can’t really control it once you classify it and submit.

 

[chemdoctor]

As has already been said, yes. They will determine whether it falls under BCPM or not. I know people who have had stuff changed to BCPM and stuff change to non-BCPM. I’m talking like onesie twosie classes here, not a lot.

Yeah I was wondering. I took a stats course but it’s listed as PSY and is in the Psych department at my school. Does it count? I got a B+ in it haha

I think if I classified it as Psych, AMCAS wouldn’t really change it since that’s what it goes at my school

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

If the title is stats, they will almost certainly reclass it as BCPM.

Yeah I was wondering. I took a stats course but it’s listed as PSY and is in the Psych department at my school. Does it count? I got a B+ in it haha

I think if I classified it as Psych, AMCAS wouldn’t really change it since that’s what it goes at my school

 

[chemdoctor]

If the title is stats, they will almost certainly reclass it as BCPM.

*Statistical inference*

 

[907914]

If the title is stats, they will almost certainly reclass it as BCPM.

What do you think with this: I have lower division courses all titled “Clinical...” chemistry, immunology, microbiology etc. and I intend on labeling those as HEAL. That should fly, right?

Edit: They are numbered under the CLS department, I guess (meaning Clinical Laboratory sciences)

 

[premedprepa]

Yeah I was wondering. I took a stats course but it’s listed as PSY and is in the Psych department at my school. Does it count? I got a B+ in it haha

I think if I classified it as Psych, AMCAS wouldn’t really change it since that’s what it goes at my school

I took a business stats class and have been told it will go under my BCPM

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

What do you think with this: I have lower division courses all titled “Clinical...” chemistry, immunology, microbiology etc. and I intend on labeling those as HEAL. That should fly, right?

Edit: They are numbered under the CLS department, I guess (meaning Clinical Laboratory sciences)

You could label them as heal, but those courses are usually more vocational in nature. I know a couple clinical lab science majors, so I can ask. But I’m betting they’ll get reclassed to BCPM if they don’t seem vocational.

You could always call and ask amcas to be sure.

 

[907914]

You could label them as heal, but those courses are usually more vocational in nature. I know a couple clinical lab science majors, so I can ask. But I’m betting they’ll get reclassed to BCPM if they don’t seem vocational.

You could always call and ask amcas to be sure.

They definitely felt vocational and were all part of an Associates for Health/Laboratory Sciences. I will definitely call AMCAS about it when the time comes.

 

[907914]

You could label them as heal, but those courses are usually more vocational in nature. I know a couple clinical lab science majors, so I can ask. But I’m betting they’ll get reclassed to BCPM if they don’t seem vocational.

You could always call and ask amcas to be sure.

I was under the impression they all fell under “Allied health”

 

[Jack-Kennedy35]

I took a class called PHYSCI 167- Physiology of Nutrition.

This class is under the physiological sciences department; however, the class itself entailed predominantly nutrition material and no real science at all. I want to list it as NUTRITION, what do you think- @gonnif @Catalystik

Should I list as bcpm or no? I don’t really mind either way.

 

[907914]

I took a class called PHYSCI 167- Physiology of Nutrition.

This class is under the physiological sciences department; however, the class itself entailed predominantly nutrition material and no real science at all. I want to list it as NUTRITION, what do you think- @gonnif @Catalystik

Should I list as bcpm or no? I don’t really mind either way.

No you should not.

 

[Jack-Kennedy35]

No you should not.

So I shouldn’t list it as bcpm right? Should I just list it as HEAL?

 

[907914]

So I shouldn’t list it as bcpm right? Should I just list it as HEAL?

Nutrition is under the category of HEAL, this is very clearly a nutrition class, so yes HEAL.

 

[Catalystik]

I took a class called PHYSCI 167- Physiology of Nutrition.

This class is under the physiological sciences department; however, the class itself entailed predominantly nutrition material and no real science at all. I want to list it as NUTRITION, what do you think- @gonnif @Catalystik

Should I list as bcpm or no? I don’t really mind either way.

List it as HEAL.

 

[Lampy]

I took a class that is classified as ANT 3333- Intro Bio Anthro, so it was a Biological Anthropology course, the class mostly consisted of studying bones of various primates (extinct and extant) and understanding how the evolution of primates eventually lead to the human body (including knowing how to differentiate between bones of several species)

Could this be BCPM? Is there really a downside to just classifying everything you want as BCPM and if AMCAS changes it so be it?

 

[notsobabydoc]

It is BCPM if you get an A. It is not if you get lower than an A.

LOL! it's so true!