Class Choice Advice

[carlfusco]

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I am planning to apply broadly June 1st 2013, and will be spending the next 11 months making my application as strong as possible.

Some background:

I am a 24 yr old non-trad student with a bachelors in a non-science field. My GPA for my bachelors was not spectacular, around a 3.2. Since graduation, I have completed all the cores (gen bio, gen chem, ochem, physics) with great success (3.75+) at a 4-year institution. In addition to these 8 classes, I have taken intro genetics and intro cell bio. I've accumulated approximately 30 hours of shadowing, and plan to continue accumulating hours over the next year. I haven't yet taken the DATs, and plan to study and take them mid-fall.

My question is this: Would switching to a community college to take biochem, micro, A+P I,II be a bad idea? The university at which I've taken my cores does not offer micro in the fall and the A+P (I,II) sequence is through the Anthro department. If I switch over to the community college, will Adcoms see this as a downgrade or cop out? From people I've spoken to, the quality of instruction and teacher/student relationships are far better at the community college, despite the class #'s being lower (micro at cc is BIO 205, as opposed to BIO 314 at 4-year)

Some advice would be appreciated! Thanks guys.

 

[parham3]

take as many university courses as you can, as since youve done well in the recent ones there is no reason to take the others at a cc

 

[Hope45]

I personally don't think it will be much of an issue. I have taken classes at both univeristy and cc, and this was never discussed during my interviews. But keep in mind that many of the courses at a cc are lower level compared to the university. For instance, at the university I went to biochem and micro were 3000 level where at my local cc they were 2000 level.