Computer Science count as Math course?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>I know you need 1 year of college math so does Intro to Computer Science count as a math course?</p>

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<p>Is it in the Math Department and given a Math course number? If not, then no.</p>

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<p>Doesn’t have to be in the math department. Depends on the course content and the course content has to fall under one of these categories: </p>

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<li>Applied Mathematics</li>
<li>Mathematics</li>
<li>Statistics</li>
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<p>I.e. my statistics course was offered in our stats department (EXST) and it counted towards my BCPM. Additionally, people have gotten psychology classes classified under BCPM due to the course content leaning heavily on biology.</p>

<p>But the answer to the OP’s question is still no. Computer Science classes are non-BCPM.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.aamc.org/students/amcas/amcas2010instructions080409.pdf[/url]”>http://www.aamc.org/students/amcas/amcas2010instructions080409.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>On page 52, you’ll see a listing of how they classify BCPM and non-BCPM courses.</p>

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<ol>
<li>Applied Mathematics</li>
<li>Mathematics</li>
<li>Statistics</li>
</ol>

<p>:confused: Those all look like math to me. :wink: CS? Not so much. That’s why I asked.</p>

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<p>To be more clear (or less un-clear anyway) in some schools the departments are not as clear cut as they are at your school, blieux. At some schools, some computer science courses are taught with Math numbers. This may be an example [Macalester</a> College Catalog: Mathematics Course Descriptions](<a href=“http://www.macalester.edu/academic/catalog/program/mat_c.html]Macalester”>http://www.macalester.edu/academic/catalog/program/mat_c.html). Obviously at a school that has 3 separate math departments AND a CS departments that won’t happen. I know, for example, that Stats is problematic for many pre-med students at many schools because a non-Math department claims a particular course.</p>

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<p>curm, if a non-Math department (e.g., the biology department) claims a particular stats course, will Texas medical schools accept it?</p>

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<p>From the TMDSAS website

I’d think stats from the bio department would be better than stats from the b-school but…</p>

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<p>Thanks. The course DS took is actually claimed by 3 departments: Molecular biology/Evolution and Ecology Biology/Statistics. There is supposedly a way to select the Statistics department only as a part of the course name, but he could not figure out how.</p>

<p>I just notice that MSAR says BCM requires neither Calculus nor any other math. I am surprised. I thought it could be much more picky than that as it is one of the two “top dogs” in Texas!</p>

<p>Since you mention USC Keck, I look it up. USC Keck requires 30 semester hours of humanity/social sciences, in addition to the usual pre-reqs (and including Biochemistry, just like UT-SA.)</p>