Community College to Med School: Is it doable?

[Solomon]

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My plan is to go to CC, transfer into a 4 year and then go to Med school. It seems like a good plan, but I know that a lot of schools look down on CC. So what i'm wondering is: What should i do to still be a strong candidate? I've been told things like take all my prerequisites at the 4 year rather than the 2 year. is this a good idea? and Is there anything else i can do?

 

[sinombre]

You don't have to do anything especially different than any other successful applicant. Do as well as you can at your CC, do as well as you can at the school you transfer to, work on solid ECs/clinical experience/gaining strong rapports with potential letter-writers, and do as well as you can on the MCAT.

Also, you don't have to take all of the prerequisites at the school you transfer to--as long as you take some of them there as well as upper division science courses and do well in them, you'll be fine.

 

[Temperature101]

My plan is to go to CC, transfer into a 4 year and then go to Med school. It seems like a good plan, but I know that a lot of schools look down on CC. So what i'm wondering is: What should i do to still be a strong candidate? I've been told things like take all my prerequisites at the 4 year rather than the 2 year. is this a good idea? and Is there anything else i can do?

This subject has been discussed many times here. Use the search function!...That might an issue for some schools. I have a friend who did his first two years at a CC and has no trouble getting multiple acceptances to med school. Try not to take all the prereqs at the CC. If you get 3.6+ GPAs after graduation and can score 30+ with all the other run of the mills stuff (ECs, LORs, etc..).You will have no problem getting into med school as long as you dont have an antisocial personality.

 

[Mavii]

You don't have to do anything especially different than any other successful applicant. Do as well as you can at your CC, do as well as you can at the school you transfer to, work on solid ECs/clinical experience/gaining strong rapports with potential letter-writers, and do as well as you can on the MCAT.

Also, you don't have to take all of the prerequisites at the school you transfer to--as long as you take some of them there as well as upper division science courses and do well in them, you'll be fine.

👍 I nominate this to be the default response to future CC threads 👍

 

[acslater99]

This subject has been discussed many times here. Use the search function!...That might an issue for some schools. I have a friend who did his first two years at a CC and has no trouble getting multiple acceptances to med school. Try not to take all the prereqs at the CC. If you get 3.6+ GPAs after graduation and can score 30+ with all the other run of the mills stuff (ECs, LORs, etc..).You will have no problem getting into med school as long as you dont have an antisocial personality.

👍

 

[Solomon]

Thanks to everyone that responded. I know this is an overused post, but the ones that I had read were less to the point. But thanks anyway. 🙂

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[987439759]

My plan is to go to CC, transfer into a 4 year and then go to Med school. It seems like a good plan, but I know that a lot of schools look down on CC. So what i'm wondering is: What should i do to still be a strong candidate? I've been told things like take all my prerequisites at the 4 year rather than the 2 year. is this a good idea? and Is there anything else i can do?

I finished my first two years at a CC, and just was accepted to a US MD school. It is possible.

 

[CaliGirl14]

oh my god. Did they disable the search function?

 

[Xenops]

I finished my first two years at a CC, and just was accepted to a US MD school. It is possible.

My friend did ALL his sciences at a community college, got his bachelors (psychology and nutrition) through an extension campus, and got accepted into the WWAMI school. 😀

 

[Solomon]

oh my god. Did they disable the search function?

I think they did 😛

Seriously though, the answers on the other CC posts didnt answer my question. I needed more info, which has been given here.

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