<p>Hi, I just recently got accepted into Wash U. I plan on pursuing a medical career. In the college of arts and sciences, what is the math requirement?, because i hate calculus. How many credits/semesters?</p>
<p>I don’t know about the requirements for Artsci, but I’m pretty sure to be premed you should take a math class. All of my premed friends took Calc 2 Fall of their freshman year, and didn’t think about math ever again 
The distribution requirements have changed since then, so maybe someone more current can help…</p>
<p>I hated Calc in HS, but took Calc 1 this semester and am ending up with an A/A-. I’d recommend taking until Calc 2 at least.</p>
<p>There are a few medical major people in a class I have at a community college, they are all stopping after calc 2.</p>
<p>Gyles, the pre-med math requirement no matter where you are is one year of calculus. At Wash U. Art Sci, that means taking either 1 semester of Calc. 1 and 1 semester of Calc. II, or 1 semester of Calc II and 1 semester of Calc III. Each of these courses is 3 units. Also, at Wash U. Art Sci., the Calc. II class now has a mandatory data analysis lab for an additional 1 unit of credit (that lab used to be optional, but it just became mandatory).<br>
If you aren’t applying to medical schools and just need enough math to meet the distribution requirements at Wash U., then it’s one semester (3 units) of any “quantitative analysis” course, which could be anything quantitative, for example statistics, not just calculus.
Congratulations on your acceptance to Wash U. You’re going to love it there.</p>
<p>P.S. There is no med school advantage to taking Calc. II and III instead of Calc I and II. And you wouldn’t start with Calc. II unless you had scored high enough on an AP Calc exam or on Wash U’s calc placement test. If you hate math but are pre-med, then it would be Calc I and Calc II for a total of 1 year.</p>
<p>P.P.S. Oops, one more thing. Technically, you could skip one or more of these semesters of math with the proper scores on AP Calc AB or AP Calc BC exams or on Wash U.'s placement exams. But some med schools don’t accept AP credits for their science requirements, so you’d still have to take 2 semesters of calc in college to be assured credit by the med schools. Therefore, if you hate math, placing out of the lower level calc but still ending up with 2 semesters of higher level calculus is no advantage.</p>
<p>thank you all, you were very helpful mom555</p>
<p>lol Gyles congrats! hahaha i found you</p>