Math Courses...Which ones should I take

bluemath
Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:18:03 +0000

So much of med school admission is GPA and MCAT driven. So your goal is to get the highest GPA that you can in all your undergraduate classes. ALso many med schools will not acccept AP credit for the required pre-med courses. You will be best served by repeating Calc I and Calc II; take the easy A…build your GPA for med school admissions, while focusing on aceing your other classes and activities.
It is NOT LIKE COLLEGE ADMISSIONS…Medical Schools care little about the rigor of your college curriculum. You just need to complete the required premed classes: 2 bio, 4 chem, 2 physics, 1-2 english, 0-2 math (calc/stats). For medical school admissions, you will be working working towards two different GPAs: 1. overall GPA 2. GPA in all math/science classes.
Humanities majors (with their higher GPAs) have a higher acceptance rate to med school than science majors (lower GPAs).
The time you would have spent on higher level math classes, use towards meaningful extracurricular activities that will demonstrate your fit for medicine (shadowing a physician, volunteering in a health related capacity, etc.).