Science GPA factors

[mahalopele]

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Do classes like medical terminology, psychology, and health care ethics get factored into your overall science GPA? At my college, these classes aren't labeled as being under biology, but I was wondering if they would still count. Thanks!

 

[The Knife & Gun Club]

^agree with gonnif above, however in filling out amcas you can still list them as science and see if they correct them. There's no harm and it wont slow down how long it takes to verify.

I did this with a couple classes (an interdisciplinary studies class, a psych class, and an anthro class) and all three ended up counting into my BCPM.

 

[The Knife & Gun Club]

just dont have 10 or more that might be questionable and reclassified. Then they kick it back to you for review and that puts you back at bottom of queue,

Was unaware of that!

 

[Petrichor1]

if you are asking these questions, you may benefit from applying to DO schools where a larger cohort of class divisions are counted as sgpa. Go to the AACOMAS website (don't even know if I spelt that correctly) and see what they think is science specific.

 

[Cookiess]

Based on the topic of the classes you mentioned, those three don't sound like they would fall under the BCPM classification. However, when inputting your classes into your primary AMCAS application, you self classify your classes. If you feel that any of your classes has a significant science component, then you can designate it as BCPM.

During the verification process, AMCAS will either accept or reject your classification.

 

[whatever5]

Depends on how the course is listed/what its called. I got away with listing some classes cross-listed as bio/psych as bio to factor them into BCPM, and also took a psych stats class that i listed as math (course name was just "statistics"). Basically if you have a good reason for listing something as BCPM it should be fine.

 

[deleted446889]

No, for the most part (see link below). Courses are classified by content and not by department or title.
The issue that confuses students here is that BCPM is not science, though everyone uses the term.
Perhaps a few psych classes such as Neuropsychology and Statistics.
Medical and Health related classes are not
https://www.aamc.org/students/download/181694/data/amcas_course_classification_guide.pdf

Hi gonnif, I have

-Neuropsychology
-Physiological Psychology
-Cognitive Psychology
-Perception

Which would be life-saving if they counted in my sGPA. I'm hopeful about the first two counting but not sure about the bottom two...is it worth it to try to pass them as sGPA? The course code is EXP for them, not PSY. I don't want to try to pass off too many and have them all taken away.