Math Requirement Question

[Chocolato]

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Does statistics count as part of the math requirement for med schools? For example, can you take one year of statistics instead of one year of calculus or one semester of calculus or one semester of statistics?

 

[HumidBeing]

You'll have to look at the individual schools' admission requirements. Some require calculus. Others don't. If you do take stats, the grade does go in the GPA for BCMP, even if it has its own department.

 

[Husky85]

Don't you need calculus to take physics?

You definately need physics, and it's better to take some form of calc based physics rather than remedial physics as far as adcoms are concerned.

Just suck it up, calc isn't that hard. I stink at math and i got through it. 😀

 

[MedStudentWanna]

Don't you need calculus to take physics?

You definately need physics, and it's better to take some form of calc based physics rather than remedial physics as far as adcoms are concerned.

Just suck it up, calc isn't that hard. I stink at math and i got through it. 😀

That's not true at all. MANY adcoms have said that algebra-based physics is fine and only a handful of schools require calculus at all. If you don't want to take calc, you just can't apply to those schools (I think there are about 6-10 of them).

 

[mvenus929]

Depends on the school Some will require a full year of calc, some allow you to take stats instead of a semester, and some don't require math at all.

and Husky, my school offers 'Physics for Life Sciences', which is what most pre-meds at my school (not the chem or physics majors, since their major requires calc based) take. I've heard it's a rather difficult class.

 

[Phoenix.]

Ok, this is by no means a complete or perfectly correct list, but here is what I have down (most of the info is from MSAR, but the first couple are from going to the school's web sites):

Georgetown (1 math course)
Albert Einstein (6 hrs college math)
Oregon Health & Science (1 math course (not stat))
Univ of Wisconsin (2 semesters math)
Duke (1 yr calculus)
Univ of Texas (Southwestern) (1 calc or stat course)
All other U of Texas Schools (calc)
Wash U (1 yr calculus)
Medical College of Wisconsin (requires high school algebra only)
Univ of CA (requires math) (but USC & UCSF don't require math)
Brown (1 calc course)
Dartmouth (1 calc course)
Johns Hopkins (1 yr calc/stat)
U of Colorado (2 math courses)
Mount Sinai (math)
Penn State (math)
Virginia Commonwealth (math)
Univ of Wisc (2 math courses)
Harvard (1 yr calc)
Univ of Iowa (math)
Univ of Kansas (math)
Univ of Louisville (math)
Univ of Mississippi (math)
Univ of Missouri (math)
Robert Wood Johnson Med School (Piscataway, NJ) (math)
Univ of North Dakota (math)
Univ of South Dakota (math)
Medical Univ of Ohio (Toledo) (math)
Wright State (math)
Univ of Alabama (math)
Univ of South Alabama (math)
Univ of Arkansas (math)
Morehouse School of Medicine (math)

You can always go to the individual sites of the schools listed above to see what kind of math they require. I have yet to run across one that requires calculus-based physics. Good luck.

 

[Chocolato]

http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/preprofessional/health/forms/additional_math_reqs.pdf

So would this list be a good list to follow? It looks like I'm gonna have to take a full year of calculus anyways then.

 

[Phoenix.]

http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/preprofessional/health/forms/additional_math_reqs.pdf

So would this list be a good list to follow? It looks like I'm gonna have to take a full year of calculus anyways then.

Probably, but I'd double check the schools' web sites that you're most interested in. For example, that list says that MCW requires one semester of college math. But if you go to their web site, it says "algebra at the high school or college level."

http://www.mcw.edu/display/router.asp?docid=1278

 

[stbxTechie]

You'll have to look at the individual schools' admission requirements. Some require calculus. Others don't. If you do take stats, the grade does go in the GPA for BCMP, even if it has its own department.

Any idea if "statistics for the social sciences" will count as BCMP or as a second quarter of math for schools that require it? (I've got one semester of calc, but no second course with integrals.)