How you classify courses on your AMCAS application is important. All courses that you classify as Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Math will count toward your BCPM GPA. AMCAS will provide your BCPM GPA (as well as your non-BCPM GPA, total undergraduate GPA, and graduate GPA if relevant) to medical schools.
Computer engineering and computer science have a lot of overlapping characteristics, but the major difference is found in how the obtained skills are used. While computer engineering focuses more on hardware and electronics, computer science focuses on computer programming and software design. Both areas involve the study of advanced mathematics, physics and programming, but computer engineers are more likely to use those skills to build hardware than to build programs.
Computer science is often difficult to define. This is probably due to the unfortunate use of the word âcomputerâ in the name. As you are perhaps aware, computer science is not simply the study of computers. Although computers play an important supporting role as a tool in the discipline, they are just thatâtools. Computer science is the study of problems, problem-solving, and the solutions that come out of the problem-solving process. Given a problem, a computer scientistâs goal is to develop an algorithm, a step-by-step list of instructions for solving any instance of the problem that might arise.