Pre-Med Tuition and Schedules

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>So I’ve been taking alot of my basic prereq’s at a community college (finance reasons) and plan on applying to a University after this year. Here are my questions… (and I know an advisor can answer there and I will go more in-depth on this topic with one soon)</p>

<li><p>At the CC, courses and tuition are broken up into Quarters. 3 months each for Fall, Winter and Spring… 2 months for summer. You pay depending on how many credits you take. So… at a 4-year state college, are there “semesters”? I keep seeing this term (yes, I know what a semester is). But how long is it? Do you only have 2 semesters/year? </p></li>
<li><p>Someone posted this link in another thread I saw… for the tuition columns… what is that based on? Quarterly, Semesterly (how long is a semester), or Yearly? </p></li>
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<p>Thank you if you can offer any help!</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.kiplinger.com/personalfinance/tools/colleges/pubcollege.php?sortby=INRANK04&orderby=flip&states%5B%5D=CA&myschool%5B%5D=none&outputby=table%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.kiplinger.com/personalfinance/tools/colleges/pubcollege.php?sortby=INRANK04&orderby=flip&states%5B%5D=CA&myschool%5B%5D=none&outputby=table&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Here is the link to the page I mentioned... sorry for leaving it out the first time!</p>

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<p>It varies from school to school. Stanford, UCLA, UChicago all use quarters, as you described. Many other schools (UCB, Duke, Ivies, etc.) use four-month semesters, with two per academic year. Tuition is usually charged per semester and varies considerably from school to school. The numbers you see are annual - i.e. per year.</p>