<p>Hey. I am starting community college this fall and will be attending untill I finish out the two years. I want to go into the medical profession and want to get into a really good four year university. For a transfer do I send in my applications to four year universities a year before I go? Can I send them out for early exceptance or is that for non transfer students? I just don't want to spend a year floating here after I finish community college. I want to go straight off to a larger school. Also, does anyone know if you can take most of your pre med reqs at the community college or do most need to be done at a larger school. I've been searching colleges and I know that there is no such thing as a pre med major, but I was wondering if anyone could give suggestions for a school with great pre med support. You know like advising, clubs, etc. Thanks for all the help in advance.</p>
<p>Two things need to be defined:</p>
<p>1) What do you mean by a "great school"? Are you talking about Top 100 ranked schools? Ivy League? Top-tier UCs? Stanford? MIT? which one is it?</p>
<p>2) Are you asking is it possible or talking in terms of probability?</p>
<p>By great school I mean a school with great pre med support. I have been searching and some stick out to me. Like MIT, Harvard, UCLA, and Berkeley. These are only a few of the ones that I researched. I have never done this before and am a little lost. I'm just trying to find a school that has great pre med support programs. And I am confused by the transfering process. Like I said in my earlier post, do I put in for early acceptance or is that only for non transfer students? I am not asking for the possiblity or probability of my acceptance to these schools, I'm asking for the info on the transfering process.</p>
<p>Every school has different policy on transfers. Some schools accept early acception, some doesn't.</p>
<p>You are in a UC transfer forum, so I can only help with those. Other schools, you may have to research on your own.</p>
<p>Yes, it is very possible to transfer to Berkeley and UCLA from a community college. As a matter of fact, majority of people who post in this board gets accepted to either UCLA/Berkeley as transfer from a community college.</p>
<p>If you live in California, find a community college that has a transfer alliance program with UCLA. It's basically an honors program for prospective transfer students that gets priority in admission process when being reviewed by UCLA admissions committee. Most people who complete the honors program tend to be admitted to UCLA (around 90% do). Berkeley doesn't have such program.</p>
<p>The transfer admission rate for UCLA is ~40% while Berkeley tend to be ~30%. But then this is an overall average; the admission rate varies according to your major since UCLA and Berkeley review applications based on major/department. Impacted majors such as Economics and Business tend to have admission rate below 20% (For Berkeley's Business, it's as low as 8%) while nonimpacted majors tend to have significantly higher admission rate (as high as up to 80%). So it really depends on what your major is.</p>
<p>Yes, you apply the fall before transfer. So if you plan to transfer on Fall of 2010, you'll have to submit your application to UCs on November of 2009. You get your result during Spring (April-May), and if you are accepted, you get to transfer and attend your new school starting next fall. So you don't have to wait a year doing nothing. </p>
<p>This is the starter for UCs. if you have any question, do ask.</p>
<p>Thanks sooo much! You gave me most of the info I was looking for. Thank you again, you helped me out a bunch dhl3!</p>
<p>You seem to not know very much about the transfer process. I suggest you at least have a meeting with your school's transfer counselor about basic requirements and such and then come here to ask additional questions. I know I learned a ton about the whole confusing transfer process just by lurking around these boards and asking questions here and there.</p>
<p>Anyway, good luck! If you have any questions about transferring to the UCs, feel free to PM me and I will be happy to help.</p>
<p>There is no such thing as a pre-med major. In fact, you don't even have to be a science major to get into medical school. </p>
<p>Don't be too hasty, it's not essential to go to a "top" school anyways. Medical schools look for your completion of the pre-med course sequences, and this can be done even entirely at a community college. It is advisable to take 1 or 2 upper division science courses, but you can essentially finish your pre-med prereqs at CC. </p>
<p>You're GPA is very important in the amcas process.</p>
<p>Bio-chem is generally referred as pre-med major and it is a good major for medical school preparation.</p>
<p>Taking courses at CCs is not enough to apply for medical school. You need at least a BS/BA degree + completion of pre-reg+ field experience (for higher chance of acceptance) + MCAT to apply. </p>
<p>If it can be done at CCs level, everyone is doing it already. It is not that easy to enter medical school, the acceptance rate is extremely low.</p>
<p>Most people here don't know much about what it takes to get into med schools. You're better off going here:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.studentdoctor.net%5B/url%5D">www.studentdoctor.net</a></p>
<p>It's a site for pre-professionals-- pre-dental, pre-med, pre-pharm, pre-opt, etc.</p>
<p>my friend went to our local community college for two years and this fall he's attending NYU.</p>
<p>wow tastybeef, I've actually come across some of your posts from SDN. heh, I wonder how many people are members of both forums. This forum isn't as active as sdn though.</p>
<p>I think you're asking two questions: 1.) Which schools have good pre-med programs</p>
<p>and 2.) Which schools are good to transfer into from a community college</p>
<p>We can only answer your second question here. Your best might be to find out which 4-year universities you are interested in applying to and then coming back here and asking for specifics on transfering to those from a Community College.</p>
<p>Like tastybeef said, this forum is not really about discussing pre-med programs and you'll probably find more help on that somewhere else.</p>