Science gpa question

[Symmetry11]

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Does your science gpa refer to just bcpm courses or all science courses?

 

[theseeker4]

For AMCAS, BCPM is what is included in the "science" GPA. If a course is not under the biology, chemistry, physics, or mathematics departments, but the course is substantially focused on one of those areas, you can choose to designate that course as such. AMCAS may or may not accept your designation, and if they choose to change it, you can appeal that decision by providing evidence that the course really falls under BCPM despite the name of the course/department.

 

[SN12357]

Does your science gpa refer to just bcpm courses or all science courses?

Best to go look in the AMCAS guide. There is a page that details exactly what courses go where.

There are some very counterintuitive designations. For example Astronomy is BCPM but Pharmacology is not.

 

[sinombre]

Orange box on the left:

https://www.aamc.org/students/download/181694/data/

 

[listener23]

Orange box on the left:

https://www.aamc.org/students/download/181694/data/

Wait so evolution doesn't count towards your science GPA????

 

[listener23]

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[sinombre]

Wait so evolution doesn't count towards your science GPA????

It might... that list isn't all-inclusive, and "evolution" as an individual course/subject isn't listed anywhere on that PDF.

 

[nedsybedsy]

Wait so evolution doesn't count towards your science GPA????

I took an evolution and ecology course and that counted as biology for BCPM.

 

[Symmetry11]

Orange box on the left:

https://www.aamc.org/students/download/181694/data/

So OCHEM is not apart of your BCPM gpa? Will trig count under Mathematics?

 

[SN12357]

So OCHEM is not apart of your BCPM gpa? Will trig count under Mathematics?

Organic chemistry is chemistry. Trig is mathematics.

Is it really that hard to figure this out?

 

[sinombre]

So OCHEM is not apart of your BCPM gpa? Will trig count under Mathematics?

Yeah the list isn't absolute. They both count. Some schools won't count trig towards their math requirement though (I remember several schools only count statistics and calculus).