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Physics Preprequisite
Started by PharmDGal
http://www.usc.edu/schools/pharmacy/pharmd/admission/equivalencies.html
Try to find your school on there and look at what courses transfer.
Try to find your school on there and look at what courses transfer.
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PharmDGal said:
I heard calculus physics is actually easier than non-calculus based...if you are good at calculus.
I don't think they care too much about what physics class you took in comparison to the many other much more important things in your application.
Be careful and call the school to ask specifically. UCSF and UNC didn't list it on their pharmcas but, when I called UNC they said calcl based only. When I interviewed at UCSF they told us calc based only and many people had to fight to get their non-calc accepted because it wasn't listed which they wanted. Good luck! 
Falokis said:
hahah - Physics is always calculus based. In Physics w/o calculus, they give you a boatload of equations (like velocity-acceleration-displacement). In Physics w/ Calc - they actually make you know that if you take velocity and integrate it - you get acceleration, and if you integrate acceleration - you get displacement.
Trust me when I tell you - you cover the exact same info - you do calc - they just dont call it derivatives/integrals.
I think it takes more effort to avoid using calculus then it does to just explain why it is important...
def contact the school in question and get their opinion - its the one that counts.
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Everybody knows that.
insipid1979 said:
well then I guess your special... dork
aboveliquidice said:
I'm not special. It is common sense.
Did you think that calculus physics is some kind of mysterious thing that covers completely different things than non-calculus physics? Of course it all covers the same stuff. Were you amazed when you first realized this or something? Who would have thought that non-calculus physics would be physics without using calculus...
I think you might be the "special" kind of special.
RachGator said:Be careful and call the school to ask specifically. UCSF and UNC didn't list it on their pharmcas but, when I called UNC they said calcl based only. When I interviewed at UCSF they told us calc based only and many people had to fight to get their non-calc accepted because it wasn't listed which they wanted. Good luck!
Seriously? I honestly can't believe they wouldn't except non-calc physics. There is no other health science program that I've heard of, medical, pharmacy or otherwise, that mandates only physics w/ calculus.
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Russell7
Calculus based physics is harder in the sense that the curve will screw you over more. In algebra physics, the entire class is filled with people that hate physics. In calculus based physics, the class if filled with people that like physics, and do well in it.
Neither is easier or harder than the other (there's a bit more material to calc based, but it's minimal), but like I said, take the class where the class is filled with idiots.
Neither is easier or harder than the other (there's a bit more material to calc based, but it's minimal), but like I said, take the class where the class is filled with idiots.
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