<p>Obviously, everything has advantages and disadvantages when it comes to going to a community college. I plan on transferring from my local community college as a math major (maybe engineering) to Cal or LA and eventually to medical school.</p>
<p>So I'm panicking a little:</p>
<p>I know that some medical schools are totally evil about the whole BCPM (?) requirements; they only accept the ones from a four year university. How is that going to work out if I'm obviously going to take classes at my CC for my IGETC? Do I retake them? Or will they be nice about it?</p>
<p>Also, what are medical school's take on cc transfers?</p>
<p>What else could be a disadvantage, and how can I over come them? What kind of research can a math major get for medical school?</p>
<p>Isn't a person transferring from a cc to a four year university going to be overwhelmed with applications and the MCAT as soon as they transfer (as a junior?) Is it going to be hard to get in the hang of things?</p>
<p>I'm quite concerned, and I'm still in high school! I just want to make sure that I have equal opportunity (yeah, like that will happen!), or something very close to it with me trying really hard.</p>
<p>Last but not least, is there a list of acceptance rate by majors? Or just a list of percentages of what kind of majors apply for med school?</p>
<p>Anything else you'd like to add will be appreciated! </p>
<p>It is a bit of a disadvantage coming from a community college, but not too bad. The medical schools DO NOT make you retake the pre req classes. (not sure where you heard that) they still count, even at a CC. However, med school’s do “look down” upon CC classes. So, just get a 4.0 at your CC, and don’t let it drop once you get to your four year. If they see a 4.0 at CC than a 3.0 at your four year, then, and only then, will you have a problem</p>
<p>are you kidding me? it’s not that easy to just get a 4.0 at a cc, especially if you’re a science major. and medical schools don’t look down upon cc classes, they look down upon stupid people. that’s what the MCAT is for. don’t listen to any of these crazy kids…</p>
<p>^^of course med schools look down on cc classes. They are easier and getting a 4.0 at cc is a piece of cake compared to at a UC/private. </p>
<p>Taking prereqs at CC aren’t recommended but it’s not a big deal if you can maintain your performance at the 4-year you transfer to. If you mess up after transferring, you show the med school that you can only hack it in community college level work.</p>
<p>"^^of course med schools look down on cc classes. They are easier and getting a 4.0 at cc is a piece of cake compared to at a UC/private. "</p>
<p>This kind of statement can be easily misunderstood. From what I hear, it is easier to get a 4.0 at CC than at a university, but that in no way reflects the quality of the education received, or the caliber of the student within the class. All it should mean, to med schools at least, is that the capabilities of the 4.0 student at the CC were not thoroughly tested.</p>
<p>P.S.</p>
<p>Forming little hierarchies within hierarchies like this for the sake of social status is pretty stupid ( IE “community college engineering courses aren’t as hard as university engineering courses!”) . Allowing yourself to be compared to CC students doesn’t diminish your own accomplishments.</p>
<p>All I have to say is, if you can say that a CC is as easy as you claim, you went to an easy cc. </p>
<p>I love how people keep saying that taking the courses at CC is not recommended, yet those of us who were at cc didn’t have a choice. there’s no point in discussing this topic any further. </p>
<p>don’t listen to what anyone has to say about anything. just do your own thing. I would really like to see how many of these people who claim to know exactly what medical school adcoms want actually have gotten into medical school.</p>
<p>you could argue that a CC isn’t as competitive as a UC, that’s for sure. everyone at ucla is extremely competitive, but not everyone at my CC was so. </p>
<p>it didn’t matter though. I’ve never had one curved class at CC. At ucla, 2 out of 3 of my current classes are curved.</p>
<p>if someone from a 4 year had a 4.0 for his or her first 2 years and then suddenly had his or her gpa take a big dip into 3.0 land, would they be blamed? no, they would blame the university for being difficult. Yet CC students are personally blamed for a hypothetical lowering of GPA because some socially ■■■■■■■■ people keep reinforcing this CC stigma. </p>
<p>it’s definitely possible that a CC was easier, especially since it seems so many of you have been to easy ones. maybe that situation applies to you. maybe it doesn’t. hence the relativistic nature of the admissions process. </p>
<p>every single part of your medical school application defines you as a person, it’s not about one particular field, such as where you went for undergrad. of course each individual component is important, but together, all the components create a different picture. I’m almost certain that it will be fairly obvious that someone breezed through CC and then couldn’t handle university through many parts of his or her application. maybe for example, parts of personal statements or collective transcripts. whatever. the point is, medical schools won’t reject you on the sole basis of having been to CC. they will reject ******bags that went to CC though, such as RileyJohn.</p>