<p>Sorry if this is not the right place for my post.</p>
<p>I have recently gone back to school and am strongly considering med school, the problem is I do not necessarily want to major in a hard science. As a community college transfer my time at a full 4 year is very limited so I would not be able to take to required course for med school there and would have to take them at my CC. How bad is this? Will this be something that will really poison my md app?</p>
<p>Taking your sciences and math at a CC without any higher level science grades at a 4 year won’t poison your application, but it will be a huge red flag which will cause your application to receive extra intense scrutiny should it get as far as human reviewers. Everything else on your app would need to be outstanding, including your GPA and your MCAT score.</p>
<p>It would be a better idea to take your sciences and math classes at a 4 year college as a non-degree seeking student. Or to enroll in a career changer past-baccalaurate program.</p>
<p>AMCAS has a searchable database of post-bacc programs here:</p>
<p><a href=“https://services.aamc.org/postbac/[/url]”>https://services.aamc.org/postbac/</a></p>
<p>Select “career changer” as the program type.</p>
<p>It would be even better to extend your time at the juco, and take as many transferable GE courses as you can, along with any major prereqs. That way, when you do transfer to the 4-year, you can squeeze in some science classes along with your upper division major requirements.</p>
<p>I would like that, but I need to complete 60 upper division semester units in 4 semesters. Anything after that I would have to petition stay long. And I will have only 2 more GE classes after this upcoming spring. All my major prereqs will be completed by this spring as well.</p>
<p>Many majors’ upper division course requirements cover about half or slightly more than half of your upper division schedule space (e.g. they may require 30 to 40 units of upper division courses, out of the approximately 60 units that you will take in your four semesters after transfer to a 4-year school).</p>
<p>Assuming that the above is true for your major, while cramming the entire pre-med course list into the remaining 20 to 30 units of space at the 4-year school may not be realistic, it should be possible to take some pre-med courses and/or more advanced BCPM courses within that schedule space at the 4-year school, after having taken some or all of the pre-med courses at the CC. That may avoid the need for an expensive post-bacc program (that many students who started at CC for cost reasons cannot afford).</p>
<p>Of course, as noted in #3, it is best to make sure that you maximize coverage of your major and breadth requirements at CC before transfer, so that you have the most schedule space to take BCPM courses alongside your upper division major requirements (rather than having to use up that schedule space for “catch up” lower division or breadth course work).</p>
<p>(BCPM = biology, chemistry, physics, math)</p>
<p>Ok cool, thank you guys for the helpful info.</p>