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Just wondering how far you decided to go in math. I know only a handful of med schools actually require calculus, but wanted to see how many of you chose to devote time to it. Personally, I've taken a finite math(intro to prob/stats), a behavioral statistic psych class, and an upper level stat class.
 
PsychPremed said:
Just wondering how far you decided to go in math. I know only a handful of med schools actually require calculus, but wanted to see how many of you chose to devote time to it. Personally, I've taken a finite math(intro to prob/stats), a behavioral statistic psych class, and an upper level stat class.
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i took first and second semester of calculus freshman year but only b/c its part of my major (kinesiology). i never plan on taking another math course in my life. i almost cried with joy when i turned in my final...haha
 
First year calculus, second year calculus, Computer aided statistics, Bioinformatics, which was mostly math, and second year chemical engineering, which was a science student is just math
 
PsychPremed said:
Just wondering how far you decided to go in math. I know only a handful of med schools actually require calculus, but wanted to see how many of you chose to devote time to it. Personally, I've taken a finite math(intro to prob/stats), a behavioral statistic psych class, and an upper level stat class.
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I was also a psychology major in undergrad. I took Calculus 408C which is the first in a two semester calc series (instead of the normal three semester series). I also took a couple behavioral science statistics courses.
 
Elementary Differential Equations
 
Differential Equations 🙁
 
Multi I. I will either take multi II or linear algebra spring quarter. I love math 😍
 
Diff Eq. or Linear Algebra. Depending on what your definition of highest is.
 
First semester calculus so far, and I need to do one more semester of it. I'm only doing it because my major requires it; if I was given the option, statistics would be as far as I went. It's not like I do poorly in math...gotten A's in pre-calc, stats and calc 1, but seriously...screw math. I hate it. 😛
 
zpiff said:
Diff Eq. or Linear Algebra. Depending on what your definition of highest is.
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I suppose the course number ranking(even though that doesn't really mean much). No, by highest I really mean the most difficult that you've taken. The highest math I took in high school was Functions analytical geometry. I think it was the prereq for AP calc, which i didn't have to take 🙂!
 
emttim said:
First semester calculus so far, and I need to do one more semester of it. I'm only doing it because my major requires it; if I was given the option, statistics would be as far as I went. It's not like I do poorly in math...gotten A's in pre-calc, stats and calc 1, but seriously...screw math. I hate it. 😛
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Couldn't agree with you more. I've taken 3 stats classes now and I love it! Stats is the way to go if you want to avoid the other maths. Plus I heard a lot of med schools like to see applicants w/ a firm understanding of stats. In my class we used a lot of doctor/diagnosis examples which I enjoyed
 
So far, Precalculus II (Math 127). In two weeks, I'll be in Calculus (Math 181). A frightening thought. I'll be glad in a few months when I'm (hopefully) done with it..
 
Calc 1 back in High school. Too bad its factored in my college GPA. 🙁
 
katarina90 said:
So far, Precalculus II (Math 127). In two weeks, I'll be in Calculus (Math 181). A frightening thought. I'll be glad in a few months when I'm (hopefully) done with it..
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Did that when I was a junior.
 
Calc I & II. Required for my major. Glad it's over.
 
Linear Algebra and Ordinary Differential Equations. For a large portion of my first year, I was considering majoring in math. I *LOVE* math and wish I could have taken more. I really, really wanted to take Cryptography and Complex Variables, but my other classes would have majorly suffered. I've forgotten almost everything that I learned.... I really miss math.
 
SBBunny said:
Linear Algebra and Ordinary Differential Equations. For a large portion of my first year, I was considering majoring in math. I *LOVE* math and wish I could have taken more. I really, really wanted to take Cryptography and Complex Variables, but my other classes would have majorly suffered. I've forgotten almost everything that I learned.... I really miss math.
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I took all the math courses you took and all the math courses you wish you took. Crypto was fun, all others not so much so.
 
All calculus, Diff EQ, Linear Algebra, Proofs, Probability theory, Advanced stats.

Also, I took a Flower Arrangement course.
 
Highest I took was ODEs, anyone get into analysis?
 
Calc I (I've also taken algebra and trig.)
 
Engineering Math...

I guarantee you it was more painful than any other math course listed here so far. Partial differential equations up the a**
 
PsychPremed said:
Couldn't agree with you more. I've taken 3 stats classes now and I love it! Stats is the way to go if you want to avoid the other maths. Plus I heard a lot of med schools like to see applicants w/ a firm understanding of stats. In my class we used a lot of doctor/diagnosis examples which I enjoyed
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Well, makes sense. Stats actually provides useful information regardless of what field you go into. Calculus and the other stuff...not so useful unless you go into specific fields that require it, and from what I've seen, practicing medicine isn't one of those fields that require or use any sort of advanced math such as calc, diff equations, etc. 🙄
 
Honors MultiVariable-Calc and LinAlg. I also took DiffEq, Partial DiffEq, and Abstract Algebra.
However, the most difficult by far was the first listed.
 
Probably Linear Algebra, I have a minor in math.
 
I think Real Analysis was the most difficult course I took - it was awful @ my school, definitely the weed out class.

BrokenGlass said:
I took all the math courses you took and all the math courses you wish you took. Crypto was fun, all others not so much so.
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+1 Crypto was a really cool class - ours was cross-listed w/ the CS department so we got to do a lot of code breaking.

Vihsadas said:
Oh boy...

Advanced Calculus II
Non-linear dynamics and Chaos
Partial Differential Eqns
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That chaos class sounds cool, +1 for PDE - very useful stuff and interesting class.

pky463 said:
Real, Complex, Numerical 😀
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Eww. I'm so happy I only had to take Real.

I was a math major, so I did all the normal stuff (DiffEq, PDE, Linear/Matrices, Calc, Real, Discrete, etc.). But I was also an actuary so I took complex regression analysis, time series, model creation (splines, estimation), payment models, interest theory, mortality models, etc.

(Math rocks)
 
Multivariate calculus (Calc 3) last one required for my major. Sad thing was, it was the only calculus class I actually liked!

Now the only calculus I care about is the renal type!
 
Calc I, II, II and Differential Eqs b/c my Biochemistry major required it....and intro stats b/c my Sociology major required it...
 
I took College Algebra my freshman year...and thats alll I have taken. It was required for my minor. Do you guys think I need to take more?
 
shiftingmirage said:
Why is it called modern algebra? Is there a classical algebra where the rules of multiplication are different?
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He told you not to ask! It's a fancy term so people won't think you're studying the algebra you studied in high school. 🙂 Modern algebra == abstract algebra for our purposes. Basically, imagine doing algebra with sets instead of actual numbers.
 
I know this is unfair because I was a math major, but the highest class numberwise class I took was I think Analysis, followed by Modern Algebra, and then a class in dynamic systems and chaos theory. 🙂
 
clab1707 said:
All calculus, Diff EQ, Linear Algebra, Proofs, Probability theory, Advanced stats.

Also, I took a Flower Arrangement course.
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Math major?

In all, I took Calc II, Vector Calc (probably Calc III for most people), Linear Algebra and Diffy Q, Modern Algebra, Analysis, Prob and Stats, Advanced Stats, a class in chaos theory, computer programing class in JAVA, and a lame math history class

BTW, taking the calculus based Physics is the way to go. It's easier to understand how everything is derived.
 
I was a math minor, but if I had to do it over again I would major in it. I took multivariable I and II, and audited partial differential equations.
 
Two semesters of calculus mainly because I tend to take the more in-depth path as opposed to just doing what you have to do.
 
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