<p>Will taking cc classes be suggestive for someone going into med? The reason why i want to is because it can save me 6000 from a potentially boring class.</p>
<p>Yes, they count in your AMCAS GPA. But I wouldn’t be taking pre-req science courses at CC if it is avoidable.</p>
<p>i dont understand why it should, 
do dual credit at high school also count? and its english credit</p>
<p>Yes. Dual credit counts. Why? Because they say so. And they make the rules.</p>
<p>oh okay as long as its said somewhere on amcas im cool with it.</p>
<p>But would you take english credit at a cc, curmdgeon?</p>
<p>Do you think taking the english pre-req at a CC will look bad?</p>
<p>Yes - conventional wisdom is that you shouldn’t take any pre-reqs at a CC. You should take them at your home institution or during summer at another 4-year university.</p>
<p>The idea is that it makes it look like you’re trying to have an easier time of the pre-reqs and inflate your grades by taking them at a CC instead of your home institution.</p>
<p>what if you GO to a community college? Won’t they count?</p>
<p>Would there be less weight placed on the fact that it’s not a science pre-req, and therefore won’t look as bad. I always felt the conventional wisdom was more emphasized on science pre-reqs, as curmudgeon pointed out.</p>
<p>Allylunes, there is far less chance you’d be viewed as attempting to game the system. </p>
<p>And yeah. IMO bio, chem, and physics are in group to be avoided , followed by other pre-reqs, then everything else. But again, IMO , this would not be viewed as harshly ( or even negatively at all) for a student who was attending CC full-time.</p>
<p>And Allylunes, they all count. It’s just that a student enrolled at a 4 year who is taking CC classes is potentially dinged for attempting to artificially inflate their GPA.</p>
<p>yeah i agree with the artificial grade inflation. and im thought med schools will look down on that but that made me wonder what they would think if a student attended a hs that offered more duals than aps. But nevertheless, im considering ‘clepping’ out since it satisfies what i what: flexible time to study and sign up, no grade, cheap and saves me 6k. At Baylor, were required to take 12 hours of english and 6 hours comes from english and world literature.</p>
<p>Is English really looked down upon if taken at a Community College? I am planning to take English this summer, English 1A, to complete one quarter out of three for the pre-requisite requirement. After that, I plan to continue to take them over the next few years over the summer.</p>
<p>Indianjatt, why would you do that? What’s wrong with UC Davis for English?</p>
<p>I go to an engineering university where I will be taking more math and science courses than someone at a liberal arts college could even think about, and I will be taking an english class at a 4 year university’s alternative campus near my home next summer.</p>
<p>I don’t think med schools care about the English pre-reqs… they just isn’t important.</p>
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<p>lol nice…</p>
<p>Thanks for catching me on that, at first I had “pre-req” and wrote it just isn’t, then changed to plural and forgot to change the second part. That’s what you get from a tech school I guess.</p>
<p>I hold my opinion because the english requirement is completed with literally ANY writing intensive course, there is no centralized curriculum that all students are tested on. I believe the main point of the requirement is to ensure that applicants are able to communicate effectively by writing, however I see nothing to indicate anything beyond that.</p>
<p>^ not necessarily. some med schools specify that it needs to be in the english department while others will even take humanities/social science classes that are writing-intensive. some will take 2 semesters of writing seminars. it varies.</p>