Thank you so much - we will look into it!
Just make sure the Honors is TAP certified, those are the only ones that qualify for UCLA/UCI priority admission.
Essentially, if your daughter takes premed classes at the CC, she will be considered a less competitive candidate by some med schools and won’t be considered at all at other med schools.
So, if her goal is med school, she’d be better off not taking her premed core classes there. I would imagine that taking sociology and psychology over the summer would be okay, plus “regular” gen eds, but she’d waste a lot of time since UCs only take upper-level transfers who have completed all their major prereqs at the CC and she wouldn’t be able to take her “premed core classes” at the UC at all. 
It’s better to avoid that, except for one or two classes here and there, in complement to other classes taken at a 4-year college and where clearly academic performance is not in doubt.
In short, if your daughter is serious about med school, the current plan isn’t a good one: she’ll save a year… and be stuck afterwards.
Would it be better for her to try to complete courses that satisfy UC’s general education requirements as well as any prerequisites for her major before transferring?
Can’t she just do only lower division science?
Ok. I finally found this PDF. You might want to review it: https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/sites/dsa/files/handbooks/Medical%20School%20Requirements%20FINAL.pdf. Basically, the issue is that those lower division science courses are recommended at more difficult colleges to show that she has gone through the rigor etc.
These recommended courses are especially recommended to be taken at the college she transfers to. If you look carefully, many colleges have qualms about accepting AP credit courses (such as Bio etc.) for medical school requirements. Hopkins, for example, mentions that “If using AP or IB credit, an additional semester in advanced biology, such as cell biology, genetics, physiology, molecular biology, etc., is required” (http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/som/admissions/md/application_process/prerequisites_requirements.html). Thus, if she doesn’t retake the courses, it may close some doors for her in medical school applications, which is never good (since medical is already so competitive).
There may be other routes other than community college → transfer. Have you looked into scholarships and colleges that offer them (like automatic full ride, or competitive full rides, financial aid)? As was mentioned earlier, if going through community to transfer, she may need 5 years due to retaking courses, or perhaps she could take a couple extra. There is a credit cap in the UC transfer system though!
The problem is that the premed core IS lower division science, humanities, and social science. And medical schools do not like for these classes to be taken at a community college.
I’ll reiterate post 13:
“Note that the premed core includes the following:
2 semesters each of Biology, Chemistry, English, Physics+ 1 semester each of organic chemistry, biochemistry, calculus, statistics, sociology, psychology, a diversity-focused class, perhaps neuroscience, and preferably a foreign language spoken by immigrants (can be Spanish, French Creole, Russian, Arabic, Urdu…)”
That’s 1st year biology, 1st year physics, 1st year chemistry, 1st year English/Composition/Communication, 1st semester calculus, 1st semester statistics, 1st- year sociology, 1st year psychology, 1st and 2nd year foreign language (1st year level can be skipped if the appropriate level has been reached in HS).
Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry are 2nd year classes.
Typically, students take biology, chemistry, English/Composition, calculus1, and foreign language, during their first year. They take the rest during their second year (Physics, Orgo, socio, psych, stats, diversity-focused, Foreign Language 3&4 if not taken before).
All of this should be taken at a UC or at a private 4-year college (Scripps, Occidental, URedlands, St Mary’s of CA… there’s plenty of choice in CA… and even more if you look at Privates and 4-year colleges outside of CA!) in order to maximize med school odds.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t…She is way to young to move away to a 4-year college.Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems that if she is done with all her core courses at CC, then moves on to take more difficult courses on top of what is required at the UC and gets very good grades she should be fine, especially being 2 years younger than most. I also can’t help, but think about MCAT, which must be taken no later than Junior year. How can one even hope to pass it without taking the premed core?e
If what you are saying about preferably not doing community college at all is the best choice, how is it possible then for someone from CC/UC combo to be accepted into Med school?I am sure there are many people who’ve done it. I also know that some graduated with other majors and then went to CC to get their pre-med requirements.
P.S.I am not trying to undermine anyone’s opinion here^, just trying to make the best possible decision for my D
“The School of Medicine accepts prerequisites completed at the community college level. In order to be competitive in the selection process, we encourage prospective applicants with community college prerequisites to supplement these courses by taking advanced courses in related subjects at their four year institution. A holistic review process is used to select applicants to interview at Hopkins and many factors are considered in this review. These factors include the rigor of the applicant’s course of studies, grades, MCAT scores, clinical and research exposure, letters of recommendation, personal statement and the applicant’s understanding of medicine. In addition, we consider the path the applicants have taken which led to their desire to apply to medical school and become a physician.”
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