I haven't done any pre-reqs at community college, but I have done a calculus course as well as stats and a general chemistry class (like a intro college chemistry back in high school). I have around 28-30 hours of CC credit, I've managed to attain a 4.0 in all my CC course work and it counts towards my GPA (obviously) but heres my concern. I only have a 3.45ish at my university, and I'm not sure how thats going to look to adcoms. I've done pretty well in my pre-reqs at my university (minus one C+ in a chem class) but have gotten a couple dumb B's and stuff in gen ed classes. Anyways I was wondering if I should not take anymore CC courses, because I'm not sure if its frowned upon or not. Thanks for reading
Is my community college course work going to hurt me?
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well it can't help you.
Just DONT do bad.
Just DONT do bad.
It's school dependent. Unless there is a big difference between your CC GPA and University GPA, it won't matter to a lot of schools. I have been saying this in all similar threads: I took ALL my prereq at CC as did 5 other friends and we all got in. One even made it to Havard. The rest got in USC, Loma Linda, UC Davis, Tufts.
Edit: we are all transfer students.
Edit: we are all transfer students.
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FMLLLLL cc to ivy transfer with downward trend...
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Wow, thats awesome. When I contacted UC Davis, they told me that they would need higher courses at a university taken with very good grades to be considered competitive.
But either way, good work, and its great you all got into MD.
BTW, are you from a Cali CC?
Yes we are all from Cali CC. It's weird that UCD said that. I am pretty sure I read it somewhere that all UCs accept CC credits for prereq. I guess the person you talked to just wanted to tell you how you can impress the adcom.
They all do, just CA and IL are known for having good CCs and aren't looked down as much as a lot of other states. All of that said, if you're getting mostly/all As in a CC, it's not going to count against you enough to matter.
I didn't know that CA and IL CCs have good rep. Nice to know. I applied to be a chem/phys/math tutor at my UC and once they learned that I took all those courses at a CCs I can so tell they were thinking "oh so that's how he got those As. CC classes are easier so what makes you think you can tutor these UC students." Needless to say I didn't get the job. Maybe I should gather all our acceptance letters, shove them to their faces and tell them to f*cking suck it.
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Yea maybe. But I guess if youre a science major youll end up having the upperdivsion coursework.
Im in a WA state CC and its all accredited so our med school takes the course work as well, and so do some others. And yes i would agree CA has some really good CCs.
Gotta love the stigma that comes from going to a community college. Its really stupid, for example, my communiy college teaches the same material, etc, as the flagship university of my state UW and has teachers that went to Ivy, Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, and these professors like to make the classes tier 1 so to speak, and it puts us on par with university students i think. So there shouldnt be this oh, easy way out thinking, its bs in some scenarios.
I had a calculus class taught by a engineer turned teacher, guy went to Harvard, avg was a 68%, no curves on anything, i pulled an A, and I can differentiate like no ones business.
Moral of the story, some ccs are on par with university level.
Ironically, the only place that really seems to discriminate against CA and IL CCs are....CA and IL universities. That has more to do with the faculty in those schools thinking that the faculty in the CCs are just people who couldn't get a job "at a real college" than anything. Which is doubly funny when you talk to CC faculty and they talk about the four year schools they left to come to a CC because of the better money and working conditions 😉 To be fair, though, CCs don't really offer any sort of research track, which can be a sticking point for many PhD types. For those who became professors to TEACH, however, CCs seem to be the superior choice-no TAs and grad students to hand work off to.
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I don't mean to hijack the thread, but I didn't feel that my question warranted a new thread.
My GPA is relatively high and I took all of my pre-reqs at my university, except physics I and II, which I took at a CC. Will this hurt me in any way?
My GPA is relatively high and I took all of my pre-reqs at my university, except physics I and II, which I took at a CC. Will this hurt me in any way?
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Nope...
