PhD programs probably don’t care about applicants’ CC origins, since upper division (post-transfer) course work and undergraduate research are the main criteria, right?
However, the disdain for CC course work by medical schools does appear to be real, to the extent that a few medical schools completely refused to consider pre-med course work taken at CCs (e.g. JHU before 2015, according to http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/som/admissions/md/application_process/prerequisites_requirements.html ).