<p>So I'm going to community college as my high school grades were not fantastic. This was mostly due to being sick and going on home bound with teacher who really did nothing and would put in 0's for my assignments. So I am currently on my 3rd semester which starts on the 13th of January. At the end of this semester I will be at 40 credit hours, though i know not all of them will transfer, so really I'm around 31-34 credit hours. I have managed to sustain a 3.1 gpa :( (not great, I know). </p>
<p>My current college is Trident Technical College in Charleston, SC.</p>
<p>Anyways here is what I'm looking for in a college:
4 year
Needs to offer biology(Like this really narrows down the list) or microbiology
Accept transfer students
On campus housing
Prefer coed
I would rather a larger college, than a smaller college.</p>
<p>I would really prefer out of state to in state. I know it will cost more but that's just what i would like. </p>
<p>I also plan to go to medical school after finishing my degree. </p>
<p>If you need any other info, ask me and I will post it, since I most likely forgot something you will want to know!</p>
<p>As this has been said over and over and over… if your plan is to go to medical school, you MUST be seriously concerned about not acquiring undergraduate debt. You should stay in state… I guess, in theory, if your GPA is very high and your SAT/ACT scores are very high, there may be merit scholarship opportunities out there, but it is rare that those opportunities exist for transfer students.</p>
<p>So, get over it [going out of state]. You can go out of state if and when you apply to medical school. Your best bet as a transfer is a public university in your home state.</p>
<p>*I would really prefer out of state to in state. I know it will cost more but that’s just what i would like. *</p>
<p>well, will your parents pay for what you would like? If not, it’s not happening.</p>
<p>A 3.1 GPA and you’re premed? and, you’re going to a CC. You’ve got 2 strikes against you already. </p>
<p>do you understand that you need a HIGH GPA to get into med school? </p>
<p>What premed prereqs have you taken and what grades have you gotten?</p>
<p>What is your home state? How much will your family pay each year?</p>
<p>I have been paying for all of my college, since when is a CC a strike? I have also heard gpa only goes so far in med school. All my sciences are usually around a 95-100 grades its my electives that kinda stump me.</p>
<p>Whoever told you that “gpa only goes so far in med school” was lying to you.</p>
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Mom2CK can fill in the details on med schools acceptance of CC science classes. </p>
<p>Are you paying for CC because your parents can’t/won’t? How will you pay for an OOS school? You are limited to a max of $7500 for a loan as a junior and senior.</p>
<p>Since you said pre med, I will pick up on that. Your current GPA will not support med school apps. I suggest you look into medically related fields. Many require good grades also, but I think you need to come to terms with the fact that med school is not an option. You want to look into nursing, nurse practitioner, physician assistant , physical therapy, maybe biomedical engineering. </p>
<p>Then look for schools that have those programs.</p>
<p>It looks like these respondents are being really mean, but they’re not. They’re frustrated with the advice you’ve been getting, or they’re frustrated that you’ve cherry-picked the advice to suit your purposes. Either way, you’re operating under some ignorance.</p>
<p>Do you know why you want to go to medical school? do you know what your classmates in med school will be like? do you know what a physician spends her days doing? do you have any interest in spending your days around many highly competitive, grind-it-out people? have you shadowed a physician or a med student from sun-up to bedtime? how do you like spending days and nights without sleep while being expected to function at a high level? have you any experience working with other people who are not feeling well? do you know how much in debt you will be after med school and how many years it will be until you can start getting out from under that debt? </p>
<p>This is not a profession you want to enter casually, and your grades and knowledge about med school suggest you have been casual about it. (For instance, you should know by now that what you want in a school hardly matters to your goal; the only thing that matters is a very high GPA and not much debt.) Do some research and if you find you absolutely have to do this for a career then commit yourself totally to the GPA and a research experience. After two and a half years of back-breaking work you’ll know whether or not these CC nay-sayers are right. Until then, you won’t have any reason to think you would survive med school. And by that point the med schools will have told you whether or not they think you can survive it, and the matter will be settled.</p>