Stay with me as I make a short story long.
I've been attending CC for entirely too long. In HS I was an AP student, super overachiever, and thought I was going straight to 4yr. Senior year, I decided I wanted to work and only took the minimum to graduate (which, by then, was 2 classes per semester). I thought I might like to pursue a degree in business management (as I guess is common among slacker college students). I got two years into that and decided I hated it. I didn't pay any tuition, luckily, since my dad works for the CC. "How incredibly boring." Business was a "common sense" degree in my opinion. So, I started considering my options. I played around in a little bit of pre-nursing... and then I recalled my A&P class I took as a jr. in HS. One of my friends, who happens to be a nurse, gave me the great advice that if I liked the science so much more, I should be a doctor. So here I am. I have 31 credits that are virtually useless to me that I have taken through the CC. Due to my lack of interest, I didn't work very hard on any of my classes the first couple of years. I ended up with a C in Rock and Roll history... and an A in US history. My passion is definitely in science. Last semester, I took a communications class as well as revisiting A&P. All of the classes, with the exception of a dual enrollment pre-calc that I took in HS, were taken online, including A&P (which was NOT easy, yet I still did very well).
I am at the point now that I can transfer to the University pretty easily. There are only a couple of issues I have.
1) I don't want to transfer my crappy grades in crappy classes that mean absolutely nothing to me. I've decided I want to start fresh, but can I really do that? Do med schools look at everything??
2) I can take many of the same classes through CC for way cheaper and with smaller classes. Since I've been going to the online CC here for a while, class size doesn't really bother me since I have been doing all of the learning on my own anyway. But, I do like the idea of the prof. being more accessible.
3) I work full time. I plan to stop working full time once I get to the university, but I have this house and these bills to pay... you know? Maybe you don't.
I planned on taking 4 classes next semester through one of the real CCs nearby while still working full time. I would go M&W from 7am-6pm or so and take Calc, Physics, Bio or Chem, and English. I already know I won't have a life. I think once I got married I gave up on that idea anyway. I COULD go to the university but tuition $1000 CC vs $3000 University.
I guess it was just a long winded way of asking if continuing on at the CC for one more semester going to kill my chances. Is it worth the extra 2k in tuition, plus who knows how much in books?
Anyone know where I can find a money tree?
I've been attending CC for entirely too long. In HS I was an AP student, super overachiever, and thought I was going straight to 4yr. Senior year, I decided I wanted to work and only took the minimum to graduate (which, by then, was 2 classes per semester). I thought I might like to pursue a degree in business management (as I guess is common among slacker college students). I got two years into that and decided I hated it. I didn't pay any tuition, luckily, since my dad works for the CC. "How incredibly boring." Business was a "common sense" degree in my opinion. So, I started considering my options. I played around in a little bit of pre-nursing... and then I recalled my A&P class I took as a jr. in HS. One of my friends, who happens to be a nurse, gave me the great advice that if I liked the science so much more, I should be a doctor. So here I am. I have 31 credits that are virtually useless to me that I have taken through the CC. Due to my lack of interest, I didn't work very hard on any of my classes the first couple of years. I ended up with a C in Rock and Roll history... and an A in US history. My passion is definitely in science. Last semester, I took a communications class as well as revisiting A&P. All of the classes, with the exception of a dual enrollment pre-calc that I took in HS, were taken online, including A&P (which was NOT easy, yet I still did very well).
I am at the point now that I can transfer to the University pretty easily. There are only a couple of issues I have.
1) I don't want to transfer my crappy grades in crappy classes that mean absolutely nothing to me. I've decided I want to start fresh, but can I really do that? Do med schools look at everything??
2) I can take many of the same classes through CC for way cheaper and with smaller classes. Since I've been going to the online CC here for a while, class size doesn't really bother me since I have been doing all of the learning on my own anyway. But, I do like the idea of the prof. being more accessible.
3) I work full time. I plan to stop working full time once I get to the university, but I have this house and these bills to pay... you know? Maybe you don't.
I planned on taking 4 classes next semester through one of the real CCs nearby while still working full time. I would go M&W from 7am-6pm or so and take Calc, Physics, Bio or Chem, and English. I already know I won't have a life. I think once I got married I gave up on that idea anyway. I COULD go to the university but tuition $1000 CC vs $3000 University.
I guess it was just a long winded way of asking if continuing on at the CC for one more semester going to kill my chances. Is it worth the extra 2k in tuition, plus who knows how much in books?
Anyone know where I can find a money tree?
