PS I’m not sure if I’m going to community college but this is just a precautionary question.
I meant how many hours is ideal for a pre-med student to study. You said all the time so I guess 24 hours.
Really? I’ve heard of some people who got into Med School after going to community college for two years.
Right. Most Premeds at competitive schools are short of sleep. The reason is that 1.8’s keep you in the major, 2.0’s keep you on the team, 3.0’s keep your scholarships and a 3.5 makes you a smartie, but it doesn’t get you in med school.
Sometimes people who already have a degree go back to school to get the required premedical classes (primarily biology, chemistry and physics) so they can apply. It would be nearly impossible to get everything in just two years of community college.
Doing your general courses at a Community College works if you do really well for the last 2-3 years in your sciences AND you score well on the MCAT. It is a bigger risk but it does save you $.
I know but if I go to community college I’m going for two years and then transferring to a four year university.
It won’t be 24/7 all the time. A rule of thumb that I learned at my college freshman orientation is to plan for at least 2 hours of studying for every hour of class time. So, if you are taking 15 credits, that is 30 hours of studying/per week. Obviously, you’ve been in school long enough to know that some weeks will required fewer hours and some will require more. If you consider that there are 168 hours in a week, if you subtract 49 hours for sleeping an average of 7 hours a night plus 45 hours of class time and studying, you still have 74 hours per week to do other things (eat, shower, have a job, participate in a club, whatever). This kind of strategy worked for me and I maintained a near 4.0 in undergraduate school and in my PhD program.
You are going to college to learn and work hard–that is the whole point.
Alright thanks that was very helpful!
The typical full time course load nominally requires 45-48 hours of work per week (including both in-class and out-of-class time). However, actual workload is probably less for most majors. But lab courses tend to be higher workload than non-lab courses.
In terms of community college, some medical schools frown on taking all of your pre-med courses at community colleges. The usual recommendation is to include some upper division courses in the pre-med science subjects (biology, chemistry, physics, and/or math) after you transfer to a four year school in order to show that you can do well at a four year school. If your undergraduate major is such a subject, that will happen automatically. If it is some other subject, you would want to take some such advanced science courses as electives along with your major courses after transfer.
If I go to community college I only plan on doing my basics thats it. I will do all my required degree/ pre-med work at the four year university. I do not plan on doing Advanced Science classes at community college, only entry level sciences if I go
Most of the pre-med course work is frosh/soph level science courses. If you do CC for two years, then you will have to take most or all of it at CC, so that you can take the more advanced science courses at the four year school that you transfer to.
Alright thanks that’s helpful I looked into it and this med school said going to CC is fine as long as you don’t take those advanced courses there