Math requirement for dental school?

[mostprecious]

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Hi, I'm a new pre-dental student who comes from a pre-pharmacy background, and for pharmacy school it is mostly required to take university level Calculus or Statistics. Do you know if same holds true for dental school? I have AP score of 5 on Calculus BC, which fulfills university Calculus. But statistics is new to me. What college math have you taken - Statistics or calculus - for dental school? And do you know if generally it is required?

Thanks

 

[DaPug]

It depends on the school.

 

[doc toothache]

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=937110
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=942453

 

[NDPitch]

Schools have a mixture of math requirements. Some require none. Some require a semester of calc OR a semester of stats. Some require both, etc. I knocked them all off the list by taking Stats, Calc 1, and Calc 2.

 

[Sal427]

I was fine with just AP credits in Calc AB and BC ( 4's or 5's)

 

[mostprecious]

Dr toothache you are amazing 🙂 Thank you for that.

 

[Glimmer1991]

Well, ECU has a math requirement but says that they will take AP credit. However, they also say that "students should avail themselves to taking higher-lever courses" in the prereqs they fulfilled in high school or something along those lines. I took Calc 1 and Stats in high school and made 100s in both, so I was finished with my math career in the 11th grade. 😀 Math ain't my cup of tea, so I'm hoping it won't come back to bite me that I didn't take any more math classes in college! We had to show we were decent at math in the QR section and physics requires lots of math, anyhow. Best of luck!