<p>can you go to a community college for a semester or a year and transfer to a university and still get into a medical school ? Or at the least into a DO school like Midwestern University in downersgrove , IL ?</p>
<p>I have a classmate who went to a community college for two years and transferred to a well-respected four-year institution for his last two years. However, his community college had a relationship with the four-year institution that funneled the best students into the four-year institution. In addition, he's also a "non-traditional student" - he went to college later in life than the vast majority of people.</p>
<p>So yes, it's doable, but you'll need to be a good student in both places and you'll probably need to explain why you attended college in this way.</p>
<p>Yeah, need to have a good reason. One of my really good friends went to a CC and his now a second year med student. He went to the CC because they gave him a scholarship to run track and he ended up being a JUCO All-American in the Decathalon - that's a good reason. </p>
<p>The near automatic assumption is that CC is easier gradewise, so there's a fear/belief that some people may be trying to circumvent the system by going to a CC. Thus you need to show that you're capable of doing well in tough science classes at the 4 year school you end up at. My friend took a number of upper level bio courses as well as Organic, Biochem, and physics at our 4 year university. Plus he still ran track and had a partial athletic scholarship (though he got hurt and never was the same after his surgery).</p>
<p>There are many students in med school who completed most or all of their pre-reqs at a Junior College. Science is science, just make sure you get A's and ace the MCAT.</p>
<p>Yes. A "good reason" for going to a CC can be simply financial - you save a tremendous amount of money by going to a CC for two years, money that you need to go to medical school.</p>
<p>It is possible.</p>
<p>One of our former posters (a CC student himself) looked into it and told us that he discovered that some medical schools would not accept any prerequisite coursework done at a community college. More important, you can imagine that others are not particularly fond of it. (One other poster, offended at this notion, inadvertently confirmed this on some medical school website as well.)</p>
<p>I would not attend a CC for financial reasons, and regardless I would not take prerequisite courses there.</p>
<p>Is it possible? Sure -- provided the rest of your application is strong enough. But it's not something I can recommend.</p>
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<p>Realistically, most people that go to a CC do so because thats the best they can get. Is this a stereotype? Yes. But it does reinforce the stigma. But it shouldn't hurt in the long run. Because if you can do just a well as any other competitive medschool applicant at the 4yr after you transfer, you shouldn't have a problem. After all, doing so would demonstrate conclusively that your abilities are on par with competitive applicants. </p>
<p>anyways. heres an example; MDapplicants.com</a> - View Profile</p>
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Yes. A "good reason" for going to a CC can be simply financial - you save a tremendous amount of money by going to a CC for two years, money that you need to go to medical school.
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<p>Realistically, most people that go to a CC do so because thats the best they can get. Is this a stereotype? Yes. But it does reinforce the stigma. But it shouldn't hurt in the long run. Because if you can do just a well as any other competitive medschool applicant at the 4yr after you transfer, you shouldn't have a problem. After all, doing so would demonstrate conclusively that your abilities are on par with competitive applicants. </p>
<p>anyways. heres an example; MDapplicants.com</a> - View Profile</p>