<p>I wanted to make sure I’m taking the right courses for pre-med requirements. First is the one year math requirement. I know some schools require one year of calculus, but I was wondering if it was okay to take one semester of calculus and one semester of stats? Secondly, for english, does it have to be a course from the English department, or can it be any other courses that also fulfill the reading and composition requirements?</p>
<p>Usually the math requirement is “one year of calculus to include the study of statistics” or something to that effect. It really varies from school to school, but for the most part you should be taking an actual full year of calculus, so no, your proposal wouldn’t work.</p>
<p>For the English component - yes, any course from the English department would satisfy it, but so would any course that is designated as “writing intensive” and has such a designation on official transcripts. For example, at UCLA, writing intensive courses would just add a “W” to the original course number, which would be notated on the transcript. Anything like that would work.</p>