<p>My parents STRONGLY encourage me to go to our local JC before college to save money. There i would get this thing called the Doyle Scholarship which would pay for EVERYTHING. SO basically I would be going to college for free. Pretty cool huh? Then after two years I could transfer to a UC (im in CA by the way, our JC-UC transfer system is very good). I have concerns though, is going to the JC and taking some of my pre-med required classes going to work out well? Will I still have a chance at medical school if I keep my GPA high at the JC and at the university i transfer to? </p>
<p>Also, I've been taking classes at that same JC since my freshman year of high school (and I'm a junior now). My GPA is a 3.80, but some of the classes were PE and/or Dance classes I took for fun or PE credit in school that I got C's and D's in. There aren't many classes like that, I only have one C in a karate class i took the summer before freshman year, a W in a tennis class I took over the summer and had to drop, and probably will be getting a D in a dance class this semester because I never come. Will grades like these I earned during my high school time in college affect my med school admissions? </p>
<p>All the grades go on my JC transcript and will ultimately be transferred to my UC transcript as well, then will be seen by med school's. Will the grades I earned in this physical ed classes matter? They are pretty bad.... </p>
<p>well, any advice please :) that would be helpful</p>
<p>try looking up PSedrishMD's old posts that talked about the negative stigma associated with JC's. i talked to some of the med school students when i visited ucsf (i was visiting my aunt and uncles who lived in san fran) and they said that med schools frown upon jc courses (i also pondered about saving money at a jc but after my discussion, i'm going to go to uci and then apply to med school unless i get into cal). i would advise against trying to transfer from a jc if you have aspirations of med schools because they would choose just about any other university students over some jc transfer student in a heart beat who completed some of the basic pre med courses in a community college. competition is rough as is for a university students and going to a jc first will only make the hill an even steeper uphill climb.</p>
<p>JC-Junior College
masha...do you live in SR too? The SRJC has something called the doyle scholarship also. I thought about going to the JC since I didn't get into any of the UC's I wanted to go to, but I'm going to Cal Poly SLO instead. I don't want to live with my parents, and the guarenteed transfer option isn't always...guarenteed.</p>
<p>I wanna know this too, which one is better for med school: 4 years at lower tier UCs(UCI, UCSB, UCD), or 2 years at community college then transfer to top tier UCs(berkeley, UCLA)?</p>
<p>I don't know if any of you are going to major in biology, but UCI has about 75% of its biology graduates going on to med or grad school. There's also a lot reseach opportunies. You could also volunteer at UCI's med center. If I hadn't been accepted at UCLA, I would've picked UCI over all the other lower tier schools I got accepted to.</p>
<p>California, i guess you can call it another country. We're forming an uprising, with plans of resurrecting the Bear Flag Republic once again! but ssssh. its a secret.</p>
<p>SRJC= Santa Rosa Junior College. Supposedly, one of the BEST junior colleges in the state. hells ya. lol. When I went to Berkeley for a campus visit and talked to an admissions officer, they totally knew what SRJC</p>