<p>I just transferred from a community college to a university. Unfortunately, I transferred from a quarter school to a semester school so I am short .33 units in a lot of classes, and am having to retake them. On top of that, I am a premedical student who took awhile to realize she wanted to become a doctor (figured it out sophomore year) so I still have a lot of premed prereq's. </p>
<p>My choices are to either take approximately 18 credits a semester, along with summer classes, or take an extra year to graduate.
If I do the summer class option, I'd have to take a full schedule both summer semesters, which both my counselors strongly discouraged, and I'd have to take Calc 1 and Calc 2 over summer. I am in university 3000 miles away from home, and wouldn't be able to go home for more than 1-2 weeks over summer. I would really like to do an internship or research or something over summer, but my counselors also said working would be basically impossible with a full summer course load. Taking 18 credits a semester also seems exhausting since it means two science courses each semester, and I also have a job so I'm not sure how great my grades would be without a ton of time to study. Being a premed, I also need to volunteer and I want to continue to be a member of clubs on campus, I am the leader of one club which takes up a bit of time. </p>
<p>I'd prefer to graduate a year later. I was planning on taking a gap year before med school anyway, now I'd just get rid of that gap year and go to school an extra year and still start med school at the same time. However, there is the increased cost of going to school an extra year and all that.</p>
<p>I'd like some advice here, I am not sure what the better option is.. any input?</p>