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what exactly is social/behavorial
Science requirement that some schools have? Like what classes count.
Science requirement that some schools have? Like what classes count.
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sociology and psychology?
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In that case if that just includes sociology and psychology than I would have just 3 credits going into my last semester.
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In general based on last reply would it be smart to take a sociology class or psych class to get that to 6 credits looking and saw that schools do require 6 credits of all that.
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Schools don’t specifically require intro to psych and intro sociology right? Most require 3 or 6 credits social/behavioral sciences? I see what you are saying though
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So do you suggest im fine with 3 credits in social/behavioral sciences or take another psych or sociology class?
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. Took intro to psych and that’s it. Specifically intro to sociology is not offered Spring 2018 and only offered in the Fall semesters I am done after this Spring. If intro to sociology not offered specifically in Spring 2018 should I look into taking another SOC or SOCSCI rather than another psych class? So any class I take under my schools SOC or SOCSCI which stands for sociology and social science should Mean it will count towards credit requirement of medical school schools in terms of social/behavioral science?
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In general do vast majority of schools want 3 or 6 credits of “social/behavorial science”?
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3) for the schools, you can take any social or behavioral science class: psych, soc, history, econ, anthropology, poly sci, religion, culture studies, etc but except for soc and psych, they wont help you with MCAT[/QUOTE]. I took Anthropology course called Survery World Prehistory would that count?
To be fair, I believe that only psychology is an absolute requirement for the MCAT. The sociology on the MCAT can be self studied quite easily (Khan Academy videos totaling for ~2 hours, watch at least 3 times each).
I got a perfect on the psych/soc section but only took psych before taking the MCAT.
Also, The Princeton Review has a decent prep book.
For OP: if you have not already, check the MCAT subreddit on reddit. They have a lot of terrific advice, etc.
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What exactly do they want for the sociology portion? I took an upper level sociology course my freshman year and Im not sure if it'll touch on the topics the MCAT covers. The class focused on race issues and disparities. I'm taking intro to psych because honestly I can't imagine self teaching myself all of this content with a full credit load. Is sociology more of an intuitive subject- do I need an intro class for it? That sociology class was literally the easiest class I've taken in college and it was upper level.
For psych--know the intro level stuff and that's it. Watch Khan Academy videos
For sociology--know the different sociology perspectives (macro vs micro) and then the subcomponents of those (feminist theory is macro, rational exchange is micro... and know what all those terms mean).
Also need to know a lot of sociology terms about demographics and demographic disparities. Also stuff about different generations (baby boomers, GI generation, silent generation, generation X, millenials) and which years correspond to each one,
Overall, it's easy stuff but certainly not just intuitive. You have to know them. Just study the Khan videos.
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What about my question about my anthropology class counting?
