<p>Sorry if this has been asked before...</p>
<p>I am currently in a community college and as I am about to transfer, I can not stop worrying about that fact that I am in a community college and will be looked at less competitively by med schools. Does anyone know of anyone that has been accepted into a good med school from a community college? Or perhaps any other useful information about the subject.</p>
<p>I don't personally know any, but I am sure that some medical students are from CC's.</p>
<p>yeah I know this one doctor who came from CC.</p>
<p>The advice I've heard from other people on this site is to hold off on your science classes until you transfer to a four year. Good luck.</p>
<p>This guy made it. </p>
<p>You can see that it's a rare occurrence -- i.e. statistically improbable. But "can you" -- that is, is it possible? Assuredly yes.</p>
<p>what do you mean by rare occurrence? I thought that most premeds take a shot-gun approach and apply to a plethora of medschools just to barely make it to a few.</p>
<p>Among all the students entering their first year at a CC intending to go to medical school, I suspect it is a relatively small percentage who eventually do so.</p>
<p>Remember -- the national percentage is at best 25% for all college students. I suspect it's lower than that among the CC student population.</p>
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<p>It's like baseball. Minor leaguers in general have a very low chance of making the majors -- but the odds are even lower for the undrafted ones. Still, some of them make it. Some of them become stars.</p>
<p>Well, you have to account for the fact that most cc students don't make it to good 4yr school to begin with. But even for those that do, most will have a lower gpa at the 4yr then what they had at the cc due to the fact that the 4yr is just more difficult. Thus, indicating a downward trend. And no med-school likes downward trends. But if there is an upward trend(which is rare), as shown is the aforementioned applicant, I don't see a problem. Unless med-schools discount the first 2 yrs. But I don't see why this has to be the case. Correlation does not nessicarily mean causation.</p>
<p>I'm agreeing with you:
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you have to account for the fact that most cc students don't make it to good 4yr school to begin with.
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<p>The problem isn't that the CC hurts them per se, although I do think that's part of it. The problem is that simply at baseline, they're the kids who were unlikely to get drafted in the first place.</p>
<p>Wow, that profile was pretty interesting. Anyone else got any other detailed information like that. That particular student seems to be in a similar situation as myself. </p>
<p>On another note, I wonder if upward trend would be a 3.75 at cc and then a 3.65-3.7 at a top university? Opinions?</p>
<p>With a VR 8, I'm surprised he got in anywhere. I wonder what his full story is?</p>
<p>HE APPLIED TO A LOT of schools!!</p>
<p>Thirty. It's not that many.</p>
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That particular student seems to be in a similar situation as myself.
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Not unless you already have a post-transfer 3.9 and a 33.</p>
<p>"With a VR 8, I'm surprised he got in anywhere. I wonder what his full story is?"</p>
<p>Well, I believe that he mentioned on SDN that he saved Ochem and Physics for Cal while taking bio and gen chem at the JC. So by getting 3.9-4.0 at Cal in the harder premed courses, he probably proved himself more than capable of handling science courses. </p>
<p>BTW, why would a score of 8 on VR matter if his overall(33) was still acceptable?</p>
<p>Because not all 33's are equal. 11,11,11 is a much better combination than 13, 12, 8. 8 is pretty much the minimum acceptable subscore. Preferably, you'll want all your subscores to be 10 or higher.</p>
<p>I thought (think?) 8 is below the minimum subscore. Hence my surprise.</p>
<p>I've always considered an 8 to be the minimum acceptable score. Of course, most schools will usually have some student with a 7 or even a 6 but that's in exceptional cases.</p>
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But even for those that do, most will have a lower gpa at the 4yr then what they had at the cc due to the fact that the 4yr is just more difficult.
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<p>I don't know about this. I think this depends from school to school and the programs within the school. There are certain programs at certain schools that I can think of, that shall remain unnamed, whose upper divison coursework is arguably easier in terms of grading (or, at least, are of comparable difficulty) as the community colleges. {Note, again, that doesn't mean that the material of the coursework is easy, just the grading, and it is the grading that matters when it comes to med school.} </p>
<p>Essentially what happens is that these programs cram the most harshly graded courses into their lower division weeders. Yet these are precisely the courses that the community college transfers get to skip. The upshot is that the transfers get to take all of the relatively easily graded upper division courses without having to have survived the excruciating weeders.</p>