Types of Courses for Pre-req

[wrkinhard]

Does it matter, as long as its not a survey course, what kind of science courses we take? For example, there are 2 chemistry courses at the Unversity of Washington..one for bio majors and one for non-engineering. I opted for the non-engineering course because the other one required Calculus which I don't have under my belt yet (college level). Is it case by case with each school, or do ALL the schools require that you take a pre-med caliber science load?

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[Ning]

Hey,

I think most schools would accept the chemistry course w/o calculus. My school also offered two types of chem and physics courses. I took the non-calculus based courses and all the optometry schools I applied to were fine with it.

Ning-Ju

 

[RLK]

Does it matter, as long as its not a survey course, what kind of science courses we take? For example, there are 2 chemistry courses at the Unversity of Washington..one for bio majors and one for non-engineering. I opted for the non-engineering course because the other one required Calculus which I don't have under my belt yet (college level). Is it case by case with each school, or do ALL the schools require that you take a pre-med caliber science load?

Take the ones for bio majors. You don't need any engineering type courses for optometry. Even the physics that is required is the algebra based physics, not calculus based. I imagine you could take the calculus based courses if you really wanted to, but they're not required. I think most schools require 1 semester of calculus though (even though you'll probably never use it).