Any medical students out there know?? One of the advisors at my cc said that med-school don’t look at community college grades and that i should transfer soon. I talked with this one girl, who has the same major as I do, and her advisor never said anything about med-schools not looking at community college grades. I am really confused. Who is right??? Please answer??
Your advisor is wrong.
When you apply to medical school, you are required to report and send a transcript for every single college level class you took no matter where you took it. This mean all your CC classes and grades must be reported and will be included in your GPA calculations.
Agreeing that your advisor is wrong. AMCAS (see link below) is the portal through which you apply to med school (Texas has its own portal). According to AMCAS instructions all community college courses/grades must be reported and get calculated in your GPAs. S took community college course in high school, a transcript was required, and grade was factored into his GPAs.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=amcas+instructions
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When entering coursework, **you must include information and corresponding grades for every course in which you have ever enrolled at any U.S., U.S. Territorial, or Canadian post-secondary institution, regardless of whether credit was earned./b
This includes, but is not limited to
• All attempts at courses that have been repeated, which includes any courses removed from your transcript or GPA as a result of academic bankruptcy or institutional forgiveness policies.
• Courses removed from your transcripts or GPA as a result of academic bankruptcy, forgiveness, or similar institutional policies.
• Courses from which you withdrew.
• Courses for which you received a grade of “Incomplete” and for which no final grade has been assigned.
• Courses that you failed, regardless of whether they have been repeated.
• Remedial/developmental courses.
• College-level courses you took while in middle or high school even if they were not counted toward a degree by any college.
• Courses taken at an American college overseas.
• Physical Education and Music courses
• M.D. and Foreign M.D. Courses (D.O. courses should be listed under regular coursework)
OK, so i went to a different advisor and she told me to take my pre-ques through the MARYLAND TRANSFER ADVANTAGE PROGRAM(MTAP). I will take classes at UMD while taking classes at Montgomery college and somehow my credits will transfer over. I am very worried that after doing all this,WHAT IF I DON’T GET INTO MED-SCHOOL!!! i am so stressed out it makes me want to cry…
Too early to worry about it.
Take a deep breath and step away from the ledge.
The journey to med school is long and fraught with pitfalls and this is just the first of many, many stressful moments you’ll have along the way. Learn some ways to manage your anxiety–meditation, mindfulness and exercise are all good places to start–or the process will eat you alive.
And while I in general agree with 4kidsdad that is’s too soon to start seriously worrying about whether or not you’ll get accepted to med school, it’s always wise for every pre-med to have Plan B because admission is highly competitive and most freshman pre-meds don’t make it even to the point of applying to med school. This is not a knock on you, but the very same advice I gave to my own kids.
What you really should worry now is that your grades, make sure EVER\Y class you take has a target of an A, an B is not what med school like to see.
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Every premed should have a Plan B. What is your major? What other career interests you?