<p>Hey everyone i am a 2nd year CC student at SMC and have up to this point finished 28 units of mostly humanities and liberal arts. I have a 3.9 GPA and have taken a serious interest in health care and want to go Pre Med. Many competitive med school applicants have a life science major(Psychobiology,Physiological sciences) major with outstanding grades from 4 year schools.</p>
<p>My question is that if i want to make myself the most competitve for med school as possible as a transfer student I know that i need to take my med school pre reqs (I Chem, O-chem, Life science 1,2,3) at the 4 year university i transfer to, sa opposed to a community college. But the problem is that in order to be accepted into a life science major as a transfer to either UCLA, UCI, UCSD, i will have needed to take my pre med requirements before i am even admitted. I fear that this will hurt my chances of getting into top med schools, even if i Ace all my core sciences and have great MCAT scores, i know that med schools will prefer students who take their pre reqs at a 4 year over me. </p>
<p>I want to be a psychobio major or phys sci major, so i is it possible for me to transfer to a good 4 year, and then take my med school pre reqs? or is there some way for me to change to a life science major if i am admitted as another major? Any help or thoughts are welcome I am completely stumped on what to do and it is affecting my class selection currently at my CC.</p>
<p>If you do well at CC and go onto a UC and still do well there. Then it will be fine.
Once you transferred and your GPA drops significantly then that may be a bad sign.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t push back your pre-reqs 2 years just to take them at UC. They would mean pushing back med school for two years. </p>
<p>If you really want to take your pre-reqs, at UC then do it as a different major. Choose one where you can manage the major and the pre-reqs at the same time.</p>
<p>Or you can choose to do some at CC and some at UC. Most people do this. Bio and chem at CC and physics at UC.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry about this too much. Just do WELL. That is most important.</p>
<p>p.s. It does not look bad to take your G.E.'s at CC. Taking your G.E.'s there will allow you to take more advanced classes at UC and that will indeed HELP you get into med school. I believe your thinking cap is on backwards.</p>
<p>You don’t need to be a life science major to get into medical school. 50% of people who apply to med school are non life-science majors. </p>
<p>Pick the major you like and if it’s not a life science major (not sharing the same pre-reqs as pre-med), then continue with your own major requirements from there. You can transfer as your major and finish the pre-med requirements at the UC or after you graduate at the CC.</p>
<p>If the major that you like is life sci and you want to transfer as a life sci major then you have to stay two more years at the cc in order to finish… </p>
<p>The things that you mentioned don’t really matter in your admission. What matters is that you finish all your pre-reqs with a good gpa. It doesn’t matter WHEN or WHERE you take them or where. Just have an overall good gpa. </p>
<p>I know a lot of alumni from my cc who have come back and told us that they have been admitted to med schools (prestigious ones like David Geffen). SO again it doesn’t matter where you take your pre-reqs!</p>
<p>Chill outttttttt</p>
<p>Also, consider majoring in something other than a biological science! Medical schools have become very interested in humanities majors over the past 10 years or so…</p>
<p>That said, I am psychobio at UCLA ;)</p>
<p>From what ive read if you take your premed classes at a cc it is recommended of you to take higher level classes at your four year such as cellular physic, immunology, endocrinology etc. At the respected university you are transferring look at the premed program which assist you in taking specific classes to prepare you for your mcat. I’ve taken only the bio series at cc and I am planning on taking the rest along with other courses at my four year.</p>
<p>Nerd Note:
If by “i-chem” you mean inorganic chemistry, then you should know that is NOT a requirement for medical school. General chemistry is, but that is not the same thing as inorganic. Gen chem is your lower division introduction to all things chemistry, whereas inorganic is an upper division, major-specific course which usually has physical chem as a prereq.</p>