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[Buckeye1992]

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Is there a big difference between Biology BS and Biology BA. At my UG the difference is a humanities instead of a calculus class. Will adcoms ask about it?

 

[MedPR]

Is there a big difference between Biology BS and Biology BA. At my UG the difference is a humanities instead of a calculus class. Will adcoms ask about it?

no

 

[MedWonk]

Is there a big difference between Biology BS and Biology BA. At my UG the difference is a humanities instead of a calculus class. Will adcoms ask about it?

Long answer: nooooooooooooo

 

[Buckeye1992]

Thanks. I figured it wouldn't matter but thought it might seem a little weird to get a BA in Biology. My school switched to semesters and it made everything weird.

 

[drshark]

i asked deans and they said major in W.E you want and any degree as long as you finish pre reqs 🙂 Im getting a BA as well.

 

[as1212559]

carib

 

[Goro]

No and no.

Chill.

Is there a big difference between Biology BS and Biology BA. At my UG the difference is a humanities instead of a calculus class. Will adcoms ask about it?

 

[HeronsBeak]

Same at my school, but since I started in engineering I already had calc done. I'm getting a BS in international studies, lol

 

[Mehd School]

Some schools require calculus, if I'm not mistaken.

Long answer: nooooooooooooo

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[coolingglasses]

no

Long answer: nooooooooooooo

No and no.

Chill.

carib

all of this

 

[Pqrs]

Thanks. I figured it wouldn't matter but thought it might seem a little weird to get a BA in Biology. My school switched to semesters and it made everything weird.

I mean, if your school offers both a BA and a BS, they're different for a reason. From what I've seen a BS can have significantly more credits, require calc courses and even more upper division bio classes in a specific cluster i.e., 'ecology' or 'neuroscience'... Just so long as you're not taking the easy way for the sake of taking the easy route.

That having been said probably nobody actually cares so long as you do well.

For what it's worth though, where I work (research Institute), not a single person on the laboratory side has a BA. That's probably because BA in Science majors are less common, but I just wanted to mention it.

 

[Buckeye1992]

I have taken a 5 h quarter calculus 1 class (which USUHS said would meet their one semester requirement). I should have just taken a second quarter, but I didn't and now we moved to semesters so for a BS I would actually need to take two semesters (including repeat stuff from the class I did take) when I would have just needed one quarter. The quarter satisfies the BA requirement though. That's the only difference between the two (and I have to take an extra intl issues class). We have three areas we can specialize in for a biology major (pre health for me) that are the same if you are a BA or BS.

 

[Buckeye1992]

My schools med school (Ohio state) actually just dropped their calculus requirement, not sure if that is going to be something more schools will do...

 

[DrEnderW]

Long answer: nooooooooooooo

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