hey, I posted here before about my problem (that I have no high school diploma even though I did high school).
Right now I am a junior in high school (outside of US, but I am a permanent resident and did one year of high school in America), I planning to drop out of school at the end of the year since I don’t get any certification for the classes I take, and I wont be able to attend college this way. I want to go to college instead of going to 12th grade (in US), but have no idea what to do. I cant find a community college that offers a pre med program for two years - so I can transfer to a four year college and complete there the other two years so I can get a bachelors degree for further education (hopefully, med school). I guess I need to send my records to a community college (but I cant find one the offers what I want, and also I have no records for my high school) I am completely lost and have no guidance consular that can help me, this is why I am asking you. What would you do? Is it even possible to do pre med this way and still get accepted to med school? Should i consider doing 11th grade again (but this time in the US, this is the worst option and I don’t know if I could do that)?
What if I wont get accepted to any college because my English is not good enough? I am lost, thank you for helping me.
Also, if I am doing community college instead on 12th grade will it be free of charge?
This is no pre-med major. You major in anything you want as long as you take the required classes to apply to Medical school. Community college is not free unless you are dual enrolled through your HS. If not, you pay per/unit of credit.
What state to you live in? Here is the list of required classes for Medical School and suggest you post on the Pre-med thread.
http://www.startmedicine.com/app/coursework.asp
Thank you! I lived in Maryland but didn’t like it, I plan to move to California but right now I live in Europe
Also what if I take let’s say 4 classes in 12th grade so I will not have to pay for community college, can it work ?
Community colleges in CA do not offer under grad degree, so you have to go for 2 year and transfer to regular uni/college to get undergrad in premed.
Med schools frown on community college classes. Your best plan is to do 11th grade in the US (it’ll be different from what you did in the country you’re in right now, it’ll give you an opportunity to compete for the PSAT and the scholarships that come with high scores, and it’ll give you time to prepare for college admissions.)
Schools in US are way easier and it would be a waste of time , did you mean SAT? Cause I already took the PSAT on 10th grade. My biggest fear it that after 2 years in a community college I will not get accepted to any four year college and it will hurt my grad school admission.
Your PSAT doesn’t work for the scholarship program. It HAS TO be taken junior year to count for the NMF scholarship competition.
It doesn’t matter whether schools in the US are easier than in your current country. If you’re afraid of being bored, take a lot of APs (like 5!) but the point is that you need time to prepare for college admissions - many public universities only take grades 9-11 into account for admissions, others only take 10-11. In addition, it’ll be good for you socially and it’ll give you time to improve your English as well as your stats and course rigor.
Finally, if you stay for 2 years and graduate, many states (CA, TX, NYS…) will consider you in-state for their universities.
You WILL get into your state’s flagship if you do well at community college in a state where those have transfer agreements (ie., avoid that strategy in PA, where to attend the flagships you’re better off starting at a branch). If your strategy is to get into a top 25 university/LAC, forget it, as most transfers into these universities (and they’re rare) are lateral transfers, ie., you go from a 4 year university to another one. The exceptions are USC (California CCs) and Cornell (for the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.)
However, if you take too many of your premed classes at the community college, your application to med school will eb considered weak. Most of the premed classes can be completed during your first two years. Essentially, going straight to community college may give you the impression you accelerate, but in fact, it’ll end up blocking your path down the road and certainly not accelerating you the way going to high school and going straight to a 4-year would.