<p>Even if your a premed? This will be the only class I take at a CC. And all my upper div will be science/bio related. I just don't want to murder my GPA.</p>
<p>The unit translation shouldn’t be a problem. Assist.org covers it quite adequately.</p>
<p>And sorry to double post, but to clarify I am not a transfer. I will be a Sophomore next year, and I am just making a few decisions ahead of time.</p>
<p>Probably Santiago Canyon College or something.</p>
<p>haha yeah that’s the exact same link I was looking at. </p>
<p>Why shouldn’t it be doable? Taking 2 bio classes at a CC level over a summer doesn’t seem very daunting to me, especially since I do have a decent background in it. It should be much more manageable then a summer bio 1a/1aL session to be honest.</p>
<p>Interesting. Thanks for the heads up Leftist! If I do get into the class, does the grade show up for medical school apps, or is it just a check toward the requirement?</p>
<p>Medical school applications look at every college class you took, anywhere, and calculate their GPA from those. This is the vast majority of US med schools that use a common processing application (AMCAS - [AMCAS®</a> - The American Medical College Application Service](<a href=“http://www.aamc.org/audienceamcas.htm]AMCAS®”>http://www.aamc.org/audienceamcas.htm) ). They have their own method, which gives them two GPAs - overall and ‘science’ (bio, chem, phys and math courses), further reported by freshman, soph, junior and senior year.
At Cal, if you fail a course and retake it, the passing grade is all that figures into the GPA, but the med school application system will count both grades - thus a D followed by an A retake is a 4.0 to Cal but a 2.5 to the med school adcoms.</p>
<p>Thats interesting. So if I was to ONLY CC Bio 1a/1aL they would look at that particular CC grade and still accumulate it in the AMCA GPA. Is this correct?</p>
<p>Also just curiously, if a friend of mine gets a NP in math 1b, but decides to take math 16b over the summer, will his grade from math 16b only count for medical school gpa?</p>
<p>Yes, AMCAS gpa takes all grades into account whether retakes or at whatever school. The fact is that you can take classes anywhere you want as a premed but taking an important prereq like Bio at a CC will definitely be looked down upon. My advice would be to take it at berkeley for that reason, and that you’ll get a MUCH better education with Bio 1A/L at Cal (especially lab). I’m very glad I took it here, and to be honest, it isn’t nearly hard as everyone makes it out to be.</p>
<p>For your friend, ALL grades are counted. P/NP aren’t included in gpa calculations but unfortunately, he will still have to report the no pass.</p>
<p>I see, that’s interesting. I’ll consider that.</p>
<p>For my friend, though he has to report the np, he can still pull off an A in 16b and that will be counted in gpa, and looked nicely at, for the very least it sounds like.</p>