Vanderbilt Premed Weed Out

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Wed, 21 Oct 2015 14:22:10 +0000

@Suffer

Yes, that will be fine. Looking at Harvard med’s admission page: https://hms.harvard.edu/departments/admissions/applying/requirements-admission
They accept the AP calc credit + stats (“Advanced placement calculus credits may satisfy the calculus component of this requirement (Calculus AB and/or Calculus BC).”).

They also seem very flexible about the mathematics requirement in general, writing that: " Rather than increasing the one year devoted to mathematics preparation, the one-year effort should be more relevant to biology and medicine than the formerly required, traditional, one-year calculus course. Flexibility will be welcome in meeting these requirements (e.g., a semester course in calculus that covers derivatives and integration and a semester course in statistics; a calculus-based physics course and another science course that includes a firm grounding in biostatistics; or, preferably, a unified two-semester course that covers important, biologically relevant concepts in calculus and statistics)."

Harvard’s math requirements have been known to be more demanding than those of other schools, so they are a reasonable benchmark.