Is calculus (or any math) necessary for med school?

llewis999
Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:10:44 +0000

Hi I’m a pre-med student at Penn and I got a 5 on the Calc BC exam. I got placed into MATH 114, which is Calculus II—vectors, three-dimensional coordinate systems, partial derivatives, multiple integrals. You said a year of calculus is good. I’m decent at math and I’m wondering whether or not I should take MATH 240, which is Calculus III. Cause I’m in what for most people is the third semester of calculus, but it would be only my second semester. Would stopping at Calc II be equivalent to what you call “2 semesters” of math?