<p>More clarification–no community college offers a bachelor’s degree. At most, they offer an associate’s two year degree and some other programs and degrees. Some also have agreements with 4-year colleges and universities to help you move on to get your bachelor’s degree.</p>
<p>At many healthcare fields (especially those you’ve mentioned), you need to have high grades and test scores to proceed. Community colleges are one low cost way for you to test out some of these health fields to see how they might work for you and if you can handle the significant science work. This will allow you to change your mind if it doesn’t work out and not have huge debt to deal with.</p>
<p>*And I know premed is not a major, it is a course. And yes I know that I will have to go to grad school for physical therapy, I have stated that in the previous post. I told by my state college that I needed to be in the top 10% and have a very high SAT score, which I do not have. Once they told me now, I moved on to other colleges. *</p>
<p>???</p>
<p>Premed is not a “course”</p>
<p>And, what do you mean when you say that your state school says that you have to be in the top 10% to be pre-med? That makes no sense. They can’t stop you from taking Bio, Chem, and Orgo classes.</p>
<p>Most students who enroll at universities enroll as undeclared in terms of major. They then take courses that satisfy core distribution requirements AND courses that might apply to their future major. You could do the same…do NOT declare a major when you apply…and then take the courses that would satisfy the requirements for medical school admissions in addition to whatever courses you choose for your EVENTUAL major.</p>
<p>I think the student is either misunderstanding or was thinking that he needed to be accepted into some kind of guaranteed undergrad/grad program.</p>
<p>I will be taking the premed track which will include all the courses required to go to medical school. I will be majoring in either biochemistry, biology, or possibly psychobiology, and plan on going to medical school after college. </p>
<p>The reason I created this thread was about debt. Now what is a reasonable amount of debt to incur coming out of college. I will be working in the summer this summer and every summer after that making roughly $5,000 each summer, with .25 cents an hour increase each year. I also will be participating in the work study program for $2,000 per year(If i go to the private, still waiting on financial aid info back from the state school) and will try my hardest to find a job for the weekends to get even more money.</p>
<p>Since you want to go to med school, you need to borrow as little as possible for undergrad…like about 2-5 thousand per year in federal student loans.</p>