Biology with Lab

MINIMUM SEMESTER¹ CREDITS : 4

ACCEPTABLE COURSES, INCLUDE:
Biology I or II, with labs. Microbiology + lab. Genetics + lab. Cellular Biology + lab, Immunology + lab. AP Biology² Online courses acceptable, including labs.⁵

Regarding Labs: For certain colleges, a 2-credit lab is provided in lieu of a lab each for Bio 1 and II. The 2-credit lab can be applied towards the two Bio prerequisites.

NOT ACCEPTABLE COURSES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:
Anatomy or physiology. Ecology. Biochemistry. Etymology. Kinesiology. Pathophysiology. Pharmacology. Microbiology (because you will be using it for the Microbiology prerequisite). "Testing out" credits.

Chemistry with Lab

MINIMUM SEMESTER¹ CREDITS: 4

ACCEPTABLE COURSES, INCLUDE:
General or Organic Chemistry (I or II), with Labs. AP Chemistry² . Online courses acceptable, including labs⁵

NOT ACCEPTABLE COURSES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:
Biochemistry. "Testing out" credits.

Organic Chemistry

MINIMUM SEMESTER¹ CREDITS: 3

ACCEPTABLE COURSES, INCLUDE:
Organic Chemistry 1 or above. Online courses acceptable.⁵

NOT ACCEPTABLE COURSES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:
Biochemistry. Bio-Organic Chemistry. Any course combining Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry that is is less than 6 lecture credits.

Microbiology

MINIMUM SEMESTER¹ CREDITS: 3

ACCEPTABLE COURSES, INCLUDE:
Microbiology, offered by any academic department or major. Medical Microbiology. Online courses acceptable.⁵

NOT ACCEPTABLE COURSES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:
All other biology courses (i.e. there are no substitutions).

Human Physiology

MINIMUM SEMESTER¹ CREDITS: 3

ACCEPTABLE COURSES, INCLUDE:
Only acceptable substitution: a 6-lecture credit (minimum) combination of A&P I AND A&P II (see footnote #3). When completing your CASPA application, please match A&P I to Human Anatomy, then A&P II to Human Physiology. Online courses acceptable.⁵

NOT ACCEPTABLE COURSES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:|
Non-human physiology. Courses that are only partially human in emphasis.

A&P I without A&P II. A&P II without A&P I.

Statistics

MINIMUM SEMESTER¹ CREDITS: 3

ACCEPTABLE COURSES, INCLUDE:
Statistics, Business Statistics, Statistics for Psychology & Biostatistics are acceptable. Online courses acceptable.⁵ AP Statistics²

NOT ACCEPTABLE COURSES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:
Physics. Specialty math. Non-statistical math. "Testing out" credits.

FOOTNOTES

¹ If your college provides quarter credits, enter it exactly as your transcript lists it, when inputting the information in your CASPA application (as outlined here). To calculate whether your quarter hours will satisfy our minimum semester credit requirements, divide your quarter credits by 1.5. The course will still be acceptable if there is a deficiency of less than 0.5 credits from the published requirement.

² AP credits are acceptable only if the following criteria are met (regardless of whether they were accepted as transfer credits at your college):

• the credits were completed within 10 years of the year of intended matriculation in our program,

• a minimum score of of 4 or 5 was received, and

• an unofficial College Board transcript or report must be uploaded to the Program Materials section of CASPA.

³ A&P I can only be combined with A&P II in order to get a full semester of Human Physiology and Human Anatomy. A standalone Human Anatomy can only be combined with a standalone Human Physiology.

⁴Algebra is not mentioned on our prerequisite list on CASPA, but we do accept it.

⁵Online courses, including labs, are acceptable for the 2020-2021 and subsequent application cycles, in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

IMPORTANT TO KNOW

• All prerequisites must be taken at a regionally accredited institution in the US or Canada within the last 10 years. For example, if applying for entry in Fall 2024, courses taken in or after 2014 are acceptable. About regional accreditation: https://sites.google.com/a/nyit.edu/prerequisites/home/regional-accreditation

• College level courses completed in high school are only acceptable if a transcript from the original college is provided, indicating the minimum grade. The transcript, with the letter grades, must be forwarded to CASPA. The 10-year limit is still applicable.

• Prerequisites do not have to be taken at the same college as your degree.

• If a lab is not mentioned for the prerequisite, it is not required.

• Summer/Winter/Intersession courses are acceptable, if they carry the same number of credits as Fall or Spring courses.

• The following cannot be applied towards, or used to waive, any of the prerequisites:

  • Clinical work experience or experiential learning

  • Placement tests

  • CLEP

  • Transfer credits unless a transcript with the original grade is provided to CASPA.

• Each course can only applied towards one prerequisite.

• PENDING PREREQUISITES: Applicants must have at least 8 out of the 12 prerequisite courses completed by our application deadline. The remaining four must be listed as pending or planned on your CASPA application, and only two of them can be pending as late as the spring of the intended year of entry.

GETTING COURSE APPROVAL

First, check if your course is listed in the 'acceptable' or 'not acceptable' lists above.

Only if it's not already listed, you may inquire whether it fulfills our prerequisite. To do so, please email pa@nyit.edu and include the following information in the body of the email (not as an attachment):

Which prerequisite:
Course Number:
Course Name:
Credits:
Grade:
Semester & Year Taken:
Name of Institution/College/Country:
Full Course Description (cut & pasted from your college catalog):
Link to the course in the college catalog:

Please feel free to also attach the course syllabi (but not letters from instructors). Only official course descriptions from a college catalog can be used in our evaluation of a course. The syllabus will be used merely for further information.