Psychology/Neuroscience BCPM on AMCAS?

[Relz.]

Hey all! I saw this thread already: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/counting-psychology-courses-towards-amcas-bcpm-gpa.587112/

But it's a bit old and I was kind of hoping for some clarification on my courses. The majority of my courses are cross listed with neuroscience (which was my major until this coming year) but I noticed it doesn't count as science. A few people said that you can try and get AMCAS to count it as a science (biology or chemistry) and I was hoping for your opinion. These are some classes I was thinking would count:

Abnormal Behaviour/Intro to Clinical Psych
Psychoneuroimmunology
Behavioural Neuroscience Lab (Animal handling, ethics, mRNA level tests, brain protein slides, etc.)
Principles and Methods in Neuroscience (lab/stats/ethics class)
Cellular Neuroscience (protein channels, action potential detail, basically brain at the cellular level)
Hormones and Behaviour (lots of overlap with MCAT hormones that's why its on here)
Systems Neuroscience (the ear, the eye, muscles, nerves, basically a physiology class)
Clinical Psychology

Also, this might be a stupid question but I just wanted to clarify, does anatomy count as a biology class? Or is it its own category and therefore not part of BCPM?

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[CitrusJ]

I think they can go either way. The clinical psychology ones would probably be not BCPM, but the rest probably will be. They only go off the course names since there's no comments section etc. on the AMCAS, but the rest of the names sound close enough to biochem/bio to count!

 

[Relz.]

If they said no to a few of those courses would I be able to get a professor to try and change it? Or best left alone?

 

[WillburCobb]

If they said no to a few of those courses would I be able to get a professor to try and change it? Or best left alone?

Psych major, Neuro minor here. AMCAS will count those as science with the exception of abnormal and clinical. If AMCAS changes them you can challenge but for one or two classes I don't know that it's worth it.

 

[Relz.]

Psych major, Neuro minor here. AMCAS will count those as science with the exception of abnormal and clinical. If AMCAS changes them you can challenge but for one or two classes I don't know that it's worth it.

Okay thanks a bunch!

 

[Time Table]

If it helps your BCPM GPA, then mark it as BCPM. Otherwise delegate them otherwise. It's best to boost that BCPM GPA as much as you can.

 

[ace12345]

If they said no to a few of those courses would I be able to get a professor to try and change it? Or best left alone?

As mentioned above, all neuroscience courses should count. If you disagree with a change made by AMCAS, don't fight it. At this point it would be more advantageous to get your application in then deal with the hoops of challenging course verifications.

 

[Relz.]

As mentioned above, all neuroscience courses should count. If you disagree with a change made by AMCAS, don't fight it. At this point it would be more advantageous to get your application in then deal with the hoops of challenging course verifications.

Okay sounds good! So would anatomy count as a biology type class? or is in in the other section (non-BCMP)?

 

[Lamel]

Anatomy is part of B in BCPM.

 

[Relz.]

Hello! Quick update, I have calculated the GPA with and without the neuroscience classes and my science GPA is better if I exclude all of the courses listed above except anatomy and immunology. I'm just slightly worried they will frown upon my decision to include the immunology but exclude all others labelled psych/neuro. The only reason I wanted to try this was because the immunology is a bit separate from neuroscience and seems to fall more in the biology section. Any thoughts?

 

[j306c954]

I graduated this past year with a degree in behavioral neuroscience. One of my neuro electives that counted as a biology course was Brain Diseases and Neurological Disorders. I bet cellular neuroscience would count as a science course.

 

[Relz.]

I graduated this past year with a degree in behavioral neuroscience. One of my neuro electives that counted as a biology course was Brain Diseases and Neurological Disorders. I bet cellular neuroscience would count as a science course.

Oh for sure! I just don't want it to because I hated that class and didn't do well in it 😛 My question is more like, how obvious is it that I'm picking and choosing which ones count as science?