So what's the deal with English and math requirements?

[PsychStudent]

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I've noticed that a lot of pre-bacc programs don't offer English or calc classes even though these are generally required to matriculate at med schools, right? Is that because these are more of recommendations than actual requirements at most schools? For which schools are these absolute requirements?

For example, I've taken: one semester of college English (placed out of freshman English), one semester of college-level stats (it was in a psych department), one year of high school calc (got a 4 on the AP test if it matters), and by the time I finish my current program I'll have taken three quarters of grad level statistics (also in a psych department). If I eventually try the med school thing once I'm done with my PhD, would I have to take another semester of English and a whole year of calc? I honestly wouldn't mind it because I think I'm better at math and English than most of the hard sciences, but it also seems like a bit of a pain to take additional classes. Does calculus come into play at med school? Sorry for all the questions, and thank in advance for your help!

 

[Law2Doc]

I've noticed that a lot of pre-bacc programs don't offer English or calc classes even though these are generally required to matriculate at med schools, right? Is that because these are more of recommendations than actual requirements at most schools? For which schools are these absolute requirements?

For example, I've taken: one semester of college English (placed out of freshman English), one semester of college-level stats (it was in a psych department), one year of high school calc (got a 4 on the AP test if it matters), and by the time I finish my current program I'll have taken three quarters of grad level statistics (also in a psych department). If I eventually try the med school thing once I'm done with my PhD, would I have to take another semester of English and a whole year of calc? I honestly wouldn't mind it because I think I'm better at math and English than most of the hard sciences, but it also seems like a bit of a pain to take additional classes. Does calculus come into play at med school? Sorry for all the questions, and thank in advance for your help!

I know that for most of the schools I've communicated with, the English and Calculus are hard and fast requirements, not recommendations. Some schools also require biochem in addition to the usual bio, chem and physics core. You probably will want to check with the schools you would be interested in.

 

[Aladdin Sane]

most schools will accept one semester of calculus along with say one semester of statistics, but for top schools, you need two semesters of calculus or it's highly recommended you take Calc II 🙂 and english, i think the only way you can get out of taking a formal english class is by taking another course that is paper intensive, like a humanities class, i remember that's what my premed advisor in college told me but that was about 3-4 years ago so 🙂

and you can get out of biochem for some schools if your intro bio course was more biochem than bio, you can submit the syllabus and some medical schools will accept that for the biochem requirement.

 

[junebuguf]

I have two semesters of English: English Comp I and Technical Writing. Is tech writing considered English in terms of fulfilling the 6 semester hours requirement?

 

[Aladdin Sane]

I have two semesters of English: English Comp I and Technical Writing. Is tech writing considered English in terms of fulfilling the 6 semester hours requirement?

i would definitely ask your advisor about technical writing, but yeah if it was a class offered by the english department and was paper intensive, it should definitely count as an english class.