What psych courses can count towards science GPA?

[eggyolk4826]

Hello, I’m a current psychology and neuroscience major who recently switched into pre-med. I’m a little late switching into this, and I was recently shocked to learn that some psych courses can be used towards the science GPA for AMCAS. I had always thought it was pretty much solely based on what the actual course code meant (such as it being listed under ‘PSY’), and that psych is not ever able to be used for the sGPA. From my understanding, if a course is highly applicable to medicine or one of the other actual science categories, it can be counted to the sGPA, but I’ve heard very mixed things about what actually gets counted and the rules for everything. I was curious if anyone had any input on whether or not these psych courses could be used. My university doesn’t actually have a neuroscience department, it’s split between our psych and bio courses, so I have a lot of classes through the psych department that are used for my neuro degree.
Here are my classes that I think could MAYBE be used
- Intro to biopsych
- advanced biopsych
- cognitive neuroscience
- capstone in neuroscience
- psychopharmacology (studies major neurotransmitter systems and what drugs target them)
- psychological statistics
I also have classes in writing & research methods, intro to psychopath, and adult psychopath. These ones I think would be a little bit more iffy than the other ones, especially since I’ve heard very mixed things about whether or not psychopathology counts to sGPA (personally I don’t think it should lol), but I was just curious to see if anyone had any input on any of these courses

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[polymerization]

Yeah, I majored in neuroscience and I'm definitely planning on categorizing many of my neuroscience requirements as BCPM, even if they have PSY prefixes. At my school, we had course titles like "Biological Basis of Behavior," "Human Psychophysiology," "Computer Lab in Psychobiology," "Experimental Design & Statistical Inference" etc. I'm also considering adding courses like "Comparative Animal Behavior," "Comparative Animal Physiology," "Research Methods in Psychology," "Cognition," and "Psychology of Human Development" because they all have a major biological or math component.

From what I've read on the AMCAS Applicant Guide, they won't return your primary to you until they've reached 10 corrections; and from what I was reading they also generally do not correct the categories you list unless they are obviously wrong.

I'm sure the real answer is more nuanced...but this feels very above-board to me. My university was trying very hard to present as a neuro-centric kind of school, but like yours, it's more of a dual-effort from the biology and psychology departments than it is a pure neuroscience program.