Will my environmental course be counted in my BCPM?

[screwedpremed88]

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I took a course called Human Impact on the Environment. It's a course listed under the biology department at UCLA. Will it count towards my BCPM since it's under the 4 letter coding that codes for the biology department or will they see the whole course title and just count that as my other GPA regardless of whether its under the bio department or not? I know ecology is counted. Are they the same thing?

 

[SiR99]

Your class is probably going to give you units as an elective class for your biology major, but it is not a biology class and will most likely not be listed in your science gpa.

 

[mtnman12]

I actually had a class just like this called "Nature Consciousness" which I listed as biology, and somehow got changed after being processed to HEAL (aka Health Sciences). Uhh what... but I didn't really worry about it. On the AMCAS they say environmental classes should be listed under natural/physical sciences.

Since its Bio on your transcript though I would just list it as such and then see what happens if it will boost your GPA? I think you have the right to do this since that’s how your school identifies it. Then the drones at AMCAS can change it as they please- it probably depends on who looks at your application really....