<p>I am at home for the summer doing research and volunteering and was also thinking of taking some community college classes because I have free time. How does this sound like an okay plan? Or do you think that med schools will think I am just trying to "pad my GPA?"</p>
<p>No, this is not advised. Summer courses should be done at the same level of rigor as that at your home institution.</p>
<p>I know it will be easier to do well, but that's not worth the impact you take for studying at a CC when you are enrolled in a four-year university.</p>
<p>Notice that I am not speaking against enrolling in a CC. I have no idea what that does to an application - for better or for worse, I simply have no idea.</p>
<p>But if you are enrolled in a four-year college then your coursework needs to be done at that level.</p>
<p>what if you are taking it at a local four-year institution that is below the level of your home institution?</p>
<p>Also not advised, although (clearly) not as strongly advised against. This is what I've always been told.</p>
<p>how about if you take it abroad as in study abroad?</p>
<p>Make sure they're not premed courses, but study abroad is not discouraged for premeds.</p>