Did I mess up my med school chances?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>For my first year of college, I went to a community college as a Biology major. Now I am entering my sophomore year, I am going to enter to a good college, Cornell University. Because I took some courses and premed requirement courses at a community college, does this affect my chances and if so, what should I do then? This is the classes in which I took so far..</p>

<p>Community College Fall
English 101
CIS 102 (a simple computer class)
Cal I
Chem I</p>

<p>Community College Spring
Physics w/ Cal I
Cal II
Chem II
Bio I
English research writing</p>

<p>Community College Summer
Bio II</p>

<p>Then this is what I am going to take when I go to Cornell University
Cornell Fall
Oro I
Chinese
Developmental Sciology
Evolutionary biology
Gym</p>

<p>will this affect my chances? I really do want to go to med school.. Any med school will suffice!!</p>

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<p>I don’t know much about med-school but I think as long as u got good grades in the classes u took it shouldn’t affect u at all</p>

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<p>Read this: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/750797-community-college.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/750797-community-college.html&lt;/a&gt; Post #6+ – General idea = you shouldn’t take pre-reqs at a community college. But too late for that.</p>

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<p><a href=“Understanding UC transfer | UC Admissions”>Understanding UC transfer | UC Admissions;

<p>sometime, well… most the time, you need it to transfer, if you’re going to major in biology. that’s only at UC’s though, i don’t know about other universities.</p>

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<p>Well, the mitigating solution is to take lots and lots of science courses at university and crush them.</p>

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<p>no way? You went from a community college to Cornell? That’s like what I’m trying to do, but assumed was not possible. If you don’t mind, what state are you from and what was your GPA?</p>

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<p>RileyJohn = thread-hijacker.</p>

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<p>So what should i do now? Do I take a lot of science courses now? I mean, cornell suggest that we do not take more than 2 science courses per semester. I mean I did get good grades on the pre-req courses.</p>

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<p>I think 2 a semester is a good idea. Explore some other interests perhaps, but otherwise just use the spare time to build your resume…</p>

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<p>Do not ignore me dragonneedspank</p>

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<p>I think that a knifing is in order ;)</p>

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<p>If you are going to be a science major you will take enough other science courses that any questions about the rigor of the CC courses will be answered by your results at Cornell. </p>

<p>If you are not a science major, then I agree with BDM that it would help to take enough science at Cornell to prove your point. How much is this? Ask your premed advisors. This is similar to someone who APs out of the intro science courses and does not major in science. The premed people should be able to help you figure out how much, and what, courses you need to take. It probably does not have to be a huge amount, and I would be surprised if you need 2 per semester for the rest of college. That is enough to get a science degree, and you do not have to do that for med school. </p>

<p>Your score on the MCAT is also going to be important. The higher it is, the less anyone will care that you did a year of CC before Cornell.</p>

<p>If you did CC for financial reasons, and did well at Cornell, then at least some of the people on the admissions committees will love you for “distance travelled.”</p>

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<p>LOL at mmmcdowe^^ hahahaha</p>

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<p>Oh well I am currently a biology major. And I Did go to CC for the first year becuz of financial and personal problems.</p>

<p>But I also got a question, lets say i am not satisfy for a grade I received in Oro chem II, can i retake it to get a higher grade for it? </p>

<p>Im scare about the Oro Chem class that I will have to take.</p>

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<p>You can, but medical school and your transcript wil register both and average them into your GPA. Osteopathic medical schools replace the grade entirely, which is really nice.</p>

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<p>So MD schools will average both of the grades correct? Will that count against you if you do retake the course so you can get a higher grade in that course?</p>

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<p>MD programs do average the grades, but that’s the same thing they do if you take some other class as well.</p>

<p>A retake puts you in a no-win situation: either you get an A, of course, because you’re retaking the same course. No brownie points. Or you STILL can’t get an A despite taking the same course, which is a major negative.</p>

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<p>No brownie points, true, but if you screwed up your pre-reqs bad enough it is probably worth retaking them to prove that you can do it (or taking advanced courses). Plus, if you go DO that’s a GPA blemish that goes away.</p>

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<p>What course is above and more advance than Bio II? I do plan to concentrate on Microbiology. </p>

<p>Right now, I think I might get a B (88) in my Bio II class right now. And I hate how I had to start out the way I started. Should I just take an extra year at Cornell and retake all of the pre-req courses that I took at CC?</p>

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<p>I think an extra year just for that is a bit excessive, and a B isn’t all that bad, you have plenty of time to make up for it.</p>

<p>Genetics, microbio, cell bio, basically anything bio. A&P even I believe.</p>