<p>I applaud you for having this ambition. You have to get practical though. </p>
<p>I think you are correct that you probably want to do the premed curriculum at a respected 4-yr college not a community college. However, you are way behind in math. I actually think that taking those easy courses is going to hurt you in the long run. </p>
<p>I think you really have two choices. </p>
<p>Choice number one is to give up medical school and prepare for a career in a allied medical technologies at the CC such as radiology technician or ultrasound technician. This is the quickest path out of poverty. Don’t take ANY premed requirements, and I mean none. You want to take those classes with the students who will be competitive for med school. This will give you a lower middle class career. </p>
<p>The second choice, involves putting full-time community college on hold before you get too many credits that would preclude you from applying to college as a freshman, and really work on getting your math up to where it needs to be. You’ll need college algebra and precalculus. You can take classes or you can just learn the stuff through inexpensive courses through [Online</a> Videos | Online Courses - Math & Science online video courses](<a href=“http://www.thinkwell.com%5DOnline”>http://www.thinkwell.com) and take CLEP exams and SAT II exams. The SAT II exams you will need as credentials to apply to private colleges because you were home schooled. The CLEP exams can actually give you credit at most Florida schools. </p>
<p>Then get an ACT prep guide. I say the ACT rather than the SAT because the ACT measures achievement and you want to verify and demonstrate, both for yourself and colleges, that you can be competitive by being able to get a high ACT score. There is content on the ACT that most people would have learned in high school. </p>
<p>Say all of this takes a year or two. Now you have a good ACT in hand, good SAT IIs, and you have your math up to the point where you’re ready for calculus. Now you can apply to some good colleges as a freshman that will give you good financial aid. At this point, you can begin your premed journey. Basically, I’m saying to fix your high school gaps in math and science before you go too far down a road where having too many mickey-mouse credits will hurt you.</p>