<p>does taking calc I and II in my freshman year look any worse than taking calc II and III instead? thanks a lot</p>
<p>They probably won’t get that picky; I think the stipulation is just one year of calculus.</p>
<p>doesn’t matter at all, even the full year of calc isn’t required at most schools; you can take a semester of stat instead (and probably should even if you take 2 semesters of calc)</p>
<p>But I strongly recommend at least Calc II - for physics, and just because it’s … well, it matters. (Heck, while I’m at it I recommend Calc III and at least three semesters of stats. But I don’t think people are going to do that.)</p>
<p>bluedevilmike, why do you think calc is so important (besides its being a requirement at many med schools)? I thought the MCAT physics questions were non-calc based?</p>
<p>I do agree w/ you on the stats thing though, since medical journals are filled w/ complicated statistics.</p>
<p>Nothing at all to do with medicine. Just that it’s nice to know - it’s a really useful way of conceptualizing anything that varies quantitatively.</p>
<p>Oh - I recommend Calc II because while the MCAT doesn’t require it, your school just might.</p>
<p>bdm, and others, do most med schools accept AP credit for a BC 5 as sufficient for calculus, or do they want to see an actual college class, not just credit? D plans to use her AP credit and just take statistics and so far that appears to fly with the schools he is looking at now.</p>
<p>no, by and large med schools will not accept any AP credit of any sort</p>
<p>curmudgeon, as phillySASer said AP credit isn’t accepted, however the lack of calculus in college is okay w/ most of the med schools because most med schools don’t require calculus (only 16 require it, but an additional 27 recommend it)–that being said, those 16 med schools include Harvard, Johns Hopkins, WUSTL’s med school, Duke, and Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Here’s the complete list of the 16 med schools that require Calculus:
~UC Irvine
~U of Louisville
~Johns Hopkins
~Uniformed Services
~Harvard
~U of Minnesota
~Washington University (WUSTL)
~U of Nebraska
~Dartmouth
~Duke
~Brown
~Texas A & M
~Texas Tech
~U of Texas at Galveston
~U of Texas at San Antonio
~U of Texas Southwestern</p>
<p>Of those, only Harvard, WUSTL, and Johns Hopkins require more than one semester. (Johns Hopkins requires 6 credit hours, Harvard and WUSTL require 2 semesters.)</p>
<p>And these schools may well be some of the few that accept AP credit. So it’s tricky.</p>
<p>One sem. of calc and one sem. of stats should cover it just fine.</p>
<p>bdm,
aaargghh. That’s just goofy. Well, she just received her copy of the MSAR , SMSAR, e-i-o whatever. I guess it’s time for her to crack the seal, huh? (As some of those schools are on her short list.)</p>
<p>In terms of looking at which schools that require calculus will take AP credit instead, I would recommend looking at the medical schools’ websites, because the MSAR book doesn’t cover AP credit. And if all else fails, call the medical school.</p>
<p>bluedevilmike, when you recommend three semesters of statistics what kind of classes does that include? </p>
<p>My school has a couple 200 level 1 semester classes for stats & probablity and then there are two 300 level stats courses and the first is primarily probability while the second covers statistics. Should I take an intro stats course, then the more rigorous classes or should I take numerical analysis and the upper level stats classes?</p>
<p>I know you can’t really tell which specific courses to take, but if you could tell me which topics I should know and in what depth, I could piece it together.</p>
<p>1.) Basic statistics. (Would be covered by AP Stats.)</p>
<p>2.) “Econometrics”.</p>
<p>3.) Clinical studies - often called “biostatistics”.</p>