Applying for a 2nd bachelor's and then dropping out...?

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I posted this as a reply in one of the threads here because someone mentioned it, but I figured I'd just start a thread for my question in hopes of getting more replies...... 🙂

The university I take my science pre-req's at recommended that I apply for a second bachelor's so I can transfer my credits from my foreign undergrad institution onto my transcripts (and have medical schools and AMCAS accept them) and then drop out when I'm ready to apply to med school. The math and chem departments in the same university credited my classes just by looking at my foreign transcript and my syllabus for each class, however, those classes won't show on my US transcript unless I apply for a degree program. How will admissions committees look at "dropping out" on a 2nd bachelor's degree program? I'm worried that it might look bad when it's time to apply.

(The classes are mostly the humanities, behavioral sciences, English, and math classes. My degree is equivalent to that of a US degree according to a US evaluating service and I have a Master's degree from a US university)

 

[Jaguar]

I posted this as a reply in one of the threads here because someone mentioned it, but I figured I'd just start a thread for my question in hopes of getting more replies...... 🙂

The university I take my science pre-req's at recommended that I apply for a second bachelor's so I can transfer my credits from my foreign undergrad institution onto my transcripts (and have medical schools and AMCAS accept them) and then drop out when I'm ready to apply to med school. The math and chem departments in the same university credited my classes just by looking at my foreign transcript and my syllabus for each class, however, those classes won't show on my US transcript unless I apply for a degree program. How will admissions committees look at "dropping out" on a 2nd bachelor's degree program? I'm worried that it might look bad when it's time to apply.

(The classes are mostly the humanities, behavioral sciences, English, and math classes. My degree is equivalent to that of a US degree according to a US evaluating service and I have a Master's degree from a US university)

Do you have to "drop out" BEFORE you apply? I am in Canada where there are no real post-bac programs. I entered a BSc to complete my prereqs, my previous degree was a BBA (business) and an MBA (both with good GPAs so that wasn't an issue). I applied to medschool while still attending the BSc program, so "drop out" was not an issue, even though I had NO intention of ever finishing the BSc. I was upfront with the committee that I was in school ONLY to complete the prereqs, and had no intention of "collecting" additional degrees, but wanted to get on with the business of medschool.

So my question is, what is the timing of your application? Will you still be in the program when you apply? Also, if not, can you take a "leave" from the program for a year, without actually withdrawing? As long as you have fulfilled the requirements of the schools you are applying to, I can't imagine that they would care too much about this.