I'm confused

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>So I'm at a community college right now, and hopefully transferring to UCLA or UC Berkeley, but I'm so confused about my course selection!</p>

<p>I keep hearing that a lot of medical schools won't consider a student if they took a lot of pre-med courses at a community college. I guess they look down upon it or something, I'm not really sure (can some one explain this?)</p>

<p>But on the other hand, in order to transfer to UCLA and UC Berkeley, you are required to take ALL the important pre-med courses, including 1 year of inorganic chem, 1 year of organic chem, 1 years of physics, 1 year of calc, JUST to transfer to UCLA or UC Berkeley. </p>

<p>So what should I do, should I go ahead and take all the courses needed to transfer to the colleges? Is there any way around this, like taking just general ed classes at a community college, and taking the major pre-reqs at UCLA or UCB, in that case i doubt they would consider you for transferring.</p>

<p>I'm so confused, answers please.</p>

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I keep hearing that a lot of medical schools won't consider a student if they took a lot of pre-med courses at a community college. I guess they look down upon it or something, I'm not really sure (can some one explain this?)

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<p>Not true at all, especially given that you went to community college first for two years before transferring and the pre-reqs are part of those requirements. Take the classes, transfer, and apply - you'll be fine. The one potential problem is having long-standing volunteerism and medical experience since you'll be transferring (presumably far away?) in the middle of your undergrad career, but as long as you have good ECs that you stuck to as long as you could, you shouldn't have a big problem.</p>