<p>I am currently a junior in college right now and I will be applying to medical school within the next year. I am in the process of volunteering at a hospital and am looking around for a doctor to shadow. I love the idea of being a doctor and being able to help everyone. I currently have a 3.85 at my university and a 3.41 at my community college. And i was wondering what the medical school outlook on community college courses were?
My pre-req grades currently stand as:
General biology: A (community)
Organismal bio: A
A&P I:A
A&P II: A
Microbiology:A
Physics 1: B (community college)
Gen Chem I: A
Gen Chem II: B
Organic Chem: A
Calculus: C (community college)
and English I & II: A</p>
<p>I still have many more classes to take but these are the important ones as of now. I've been paranoid since i got the low calculus grade and have taken the other ones at a community college. I really need someone's advice and opinion on my stance to getting into medical school as of this point?</p>
<p>Thank you very much,
A very paranoid college student</p>
<p>If you do fine on MCAT and you are considered as a Texas resident, I think you should be fine. After all, Texas has many Texas-sized med schools, and many of them (except for the two research med schools) have a strong in-state love.</p>
<p>It appears to me that, if a Texas applicant has a trouble in his/her application, more likely than not it is because of lower-than-desirable MCAT scores rather than the GPA. Kill the MCAT and you will not have a problem in getting into an IS med school (likely with the exception of the two research med schools in Texas.)</p>
<p>I think if your overall science (BCPM in AMCAS’s term) GPA is good enough, one C (especially in M, not in the other 3) will not kill your chance.</p>
<p>I think you have just received an award of being a neurotic premed, LOL. Only a premed would be so annal about getting a near-perfect GPA!</p>
<p>Back to my original point: If you are good at science but not particular good at reading (e.g., your high school SAT CR happened to be not very high), it may be worth paying attention to the reading aspect of MCAT test early on (e.g., read a lot of difficult passages frequently, in science journal, the Economics, etc. At some colleges, many students are likely asked by professors to read widely in many non-science courses, but this may not be the case at some other colleges where AP credits are accepted.) Many CCers posted here in the past that MCAT is mostly a reading test rather than a science achievement test that most students are used to in the school setting, even though the reading material on the test happen to be science related. A good reader who is not necessarily good at science has more potential in getting a good MCAT grade than a poor reader who is good at science.</p>