<p>I don’t have an A I have a C. Yes an A at the home school would be best I understand that but there is a chance I may not get a grade in the A or even the B range.</p>
<p>…are you taking physics at your university now? If not, then how can you know that you don’t have an A or a B? I thought this was all hypothetical…</p>
<p>It is. I’m just saying what if I get a C. And no I’m not</p>
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<p>Because Columbia doesn’t like Physics and the Professor is horrid. Therefore, no matter what modalities are used, no matter what study techniques are employed, no matter the effort, a C is the best grade that can be imagined. Haven’t you been paying attention? My gosh, Kristin. Students shouldn’t be expected to learn pre-req material they don’t like. What are they, identured servants?</p>
<p>I mean, think about it. There won’t be courses you dislike in medical school, am I right? I mean , my kid can’t stand the thought of the Psychiatry rotation, so she’s just not gonna do it. ;)</p>
<p>I can do without the sarcasm curm thank you. Again people pick one, a C at the home school or an A in a summer class. One or the other.</p>
<p>You are gonna keep getting it. Take the advice or don’t. But stop with the whining.</p>
<p>My question is not answered. I’m guessing you think a C is better.</p>
<p>How about trying? Ever thought of that? You’ve got way too much give up in you for med school. Quit now and save some money.</p>
<p>Why not a B? Why this great chasm between the potential grades? I figure you’d probably be able to get a B at your home school if you put in the effort. And if you couldn’t manage that, there’s no way you’d get an A in the summer class.</p>
<p>Sheesh, am I the only one getting dizzy from all this going round and round?</p>
<p>Okay Columbia, here’s a little secret. You can get into medschool with a C on your transcript. Bluedevilmike said he got a C+ in one of his prereq’s, and he did just fine, actually better than just fine. :)</p>
<p>I will out my daughter, she got a C+ in the same prereq that BDM did, and she did okay too. </p>
<p>There, you happy now? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I guess but if there’s anything that’s going to prevent me from med school it’s the MCAT. Standardize tests haven’t been that nice to me.</p>
<p>Not to speak on Mike’s behalf or anything, but it’s not like he (or your D, GAMOM) were your “average” applicant. If there was such thing as a ding on those apps, it was that one grade. I doubt that’s the case for most applicants. </p>
<p>And to the OP, I do have one more set of thoughts for you. First, you’ve already decided that you’re not going to take the class at your university because you’d rather take it at the CC. Second, none of us knows you or your situation or your school or your motivation or your odds at med school, so why are you agonizing over what we think of what you do? If you’re going to take physics at the CC, fine, do it, be my (our?) guest–but for your sanity’s sake, try not to pick apart and agonize over every single decision!</p>
<p>You’ve been given lots of information about this decision, and you presumably are an adult who can understand the consequences of your actions. At this point, the decision is really up to you. </p>
<p>To reiterate my original point from an earlier post, if you are going to be a savvy applicant and maximize your chances at admission, one of the ways to do that is to minimize the red flags and dings against your application. It has been demonstrated by common sense and common experience that taking premed prereqs at a community college is not advised by admissions committees and therefore represents a ding or a red flag. Why give them opportunities to reject you?</p>
<p>What you need to weigh is this: is it more important for you to get an A in a class, or is it more important for you to make your application to med schools the strongest it possibly can be? Your strongest application requires that all important classes (including physics) be taken at your university. </p>
<p>Seriously, the choice is yours. We are a group of strangers!</p>
<p>Well before I knew about this I took calc 1 and 2 over the summer. I got a A in calc 1 and a B in calc 2. This was at a private school btw. Is this a red flag? I was told that math classes are okay to take over the summer.</p>
<p>You were also told in another thread that taking calc over the summer was a bad idea. I’d ask if you really want to add another red flag to that, but you seem determined to take physics over the summer, so take it. 
5 more pages of posts won’t change your mind.</p>
<p>C in orgo from my home institution freshman year here. Definitely was better to have done that than say on my application, “Brown is too difficult for me, I will take the class at a community college.”</p>
<p>Private vs. public doesn’t matter, but if money is such a concern, why did you take it at a private school? How does the school’s reputation compare to Penn State? I took a stats class at Columbia because Brown didn’t offer a basic intro stats class (they only offer department specific ones). I don’t think that was a red flag but I didn’t clear it with my advisor. To be honest, I did it because I had nothing better to do, and as plumazul said earlier, that was the only negative to it. NYU probably wouldn’t have been a red flag either. Hunter probably would have been.</p>
<p>Red flags are not automatic rejects so don’t freak out if you have one, all it means is it’s something unusual and a cause for concern. Your application is a story. What story do you want it to tell? A student who has nothing better to do during the summer and takes prerequisites at easier institutions or something else? As someone said, it is better for a doctor to struggle a little in physics or orgo than to be someone who doesn’t like an academic challenge.</p>
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<p>@ I want to be brown</p>
<p>Yea i see what you mean. I only took calc over the summer so penn state could admit me as a bio major</p>
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<p>If you would get a C in your home school, a more realistic expectation is a C+ at a community college in the summer.</p>
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<p>(From here: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/1375523-getting-calc-1-but-b-clac-2-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/1375523-getting-calc-1-but-b-clac-2-a.html</a>)</p>
<p>Note that the last part assumes you’ll do more than the minimum prerequisites. Adding another summer prerequisite that you won’t follow up with a higher level course probably won’t help matters.</p>
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<p>Can’t we all ‘just get along’ and tell Columbia exactly what s/he wants to hear: Take the course during summer. (Heck, take 'em all during summer since they are easier.)</p>
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<p>Actually, I’m not sure that finances much matters to med school adcoms. Med school can costs $300k…do you really think they care about saving you, the applicant, $25k and one semester’s worth of undergrad tuition?</p>
<p>OP,
Do not take summer physics class at CC.
If you are looking for advice here, mine is very rigid, no flexibility at all.<br>
Again, if you are looking for more input to your dicesion making, seek advice from your pre-med advisor. At D’s school pre-med advisor and committe were very very helpful and very knowledgeabel with great experiences. In addition, they knew about various changes well before others and were able to warn my D. They are the first who you should listen to.</p>