<p>As I am preparing to return to college as a non-traditional student. I must say that working and studying for all year long is inevitable at least for my situation. Because I'll still be operating a business around where I live and attend college, there is no point of discountinuing taking classes even in summer-time. Even though there are some cases, not everyone take summer classes to get an esay grade. I also meant to say that I want to take "all four summer sessions" in the "my current school", not a community college. And, it is hard to belive that the required classes for premed students taken in cc are looked that negatively. As far as I know, there are a lot of students who are taking general courses in cc for about 2 years and transfer to a 4-year university and still get into decent top state/private medical schools.</p>
<p>1.) If you're working mostly full-time all year round, I guess lighter courseloads during the school year would make sense? I'm not familiar enough with non-trad scenarios to speak intelligently on the subject.</p>
<p>2.) Yeah, the CC reference was in discussion referring to Marny's post #19.</p>
<p>3.) Generally a student who starts off at a CC should avoid taking premed courses there -- the "core" sciences like chemistry, biology, physics, etc. If they do, they should take higher-level courses at their eventual university in order to fulfill requirements. The bottom line is that they need to take the equivalent of their premedical requirements in university. But of course we're getting off track.</p>
<p>marny- I think it is crap when people say...it doesnt matter where you go before law school. I was at a ****y state school with no academic focus whatsover, now i transfered to a top50 usnews undergrad. There is a clear difference in many things. I get more out of my classes, I am surrounded by likeminded people who are very self motivated. I have awesome professors with incredible resources for internships and networking. </p>
<p>It is all about the experience you have at your school and if it will be better for you in the long run. Sure I can get into a t14 from my first state school. But instead, I transfered, enriched myself in an awesome learning environment. And now if I plan on a t14 it will be sweeter because of the work and effort to get there.</p>
<p>I personally would rather work damn hard for 4 years and be rewarded with a T14 then sit in inferior classes and curriculum and still stumble to a t14. </p>
<p>Most people on this board only care about anyway to get into the T14. I really don't care. You go where you are meant to go and you can and WILL succeed regardless of your undergrad, grad, or law school</p>
<p>Aztec- you are absolutely correct. You go where you are meant to go and you will succeed based on your abilities and desire to do so.<br>
my point is that the kid who gets a 170 LSAT at SUNY Oswego has (almost) as good a chance of getting into a top law school as the kid who goes to an elite university. and as I said earlier, the kid from Harvard or Yale who gets a 161 LSAT, (which is a very good score) may not get into a T-14 either, even though they have the HYP pedigree. </p>
<p>Good or bad, the LSAT score is the great equalizer. There are way too many kids on these boards who feel that if they don't get into a top UG school, they can't get into a good law school and that is not true.<br>
The "trick" is to get a great LSAT score, regardless of what college you go to. Will more kids from elite schools score in the top 5 % of LSAT test takers? Most probably, and that is the main reason that the kids from the top UG schools go to top law schools. That is just the reality. But the 170 LSAT from a Temple student, Rider or SUNY Oswego kid will get them there too. </p>
<p>and Blue- you're gonna tell me that pre-meds do not have to take any english, social sciences, or other general ed requirements??
many kids take the basic sociology 101 or english lit class during the summer, so they can concentrate their efforts on their major back at their home school!!
and yes- I know a Duke engineering student who took a course at SUNY Stony Brook so he could lighten his load at Duke. Kids also take basic general ed classes at Nassau Community college as it is about 15 minutes from my neighborhood. Kids will very often take a course or two there to help lighten their semester load.<br>
It's done very frequently.</p>
<p>Aztec- the most important thing is to concentrate on getting the best education you can.<br>
but much of your education is what you make of it and to take advantage of every opportunity that comes your way.
with pride- I mention Oswego's most famous alum- Al Roker. He took advantage of every opportunity Oswego had to offer him, and he began working at the Syracuse TV station while he was a student at SUNY Oswego.
Those who take risks, are adventourous and make the most of their UG experiences WILL succeed in life, regardless of what UG school they attended.</p>
<p>The point of the premedical discussion was simply to comment that I recognize that law school admissions (mostly a numbers game) and medical school admissions (where science courses should not be taken at CC's) are different.</p>