Community College to UCSD major question

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So Iv got one more year left at my Community College, it will take me 3 years when all is said and done to transfer to UCSD(my first year out of high school I only took a few units and worked on an ambulance, this is when I decided I wanted to pursue medicine) Iv taken the first Bio and Chemistry class, and I was thinking of majoring in Biology as that is what interests me. BUT, if I want to major in Bio I need to finish up my Biology and Chem lower division next year (along with my last calc class) to graduate in a decent amount of time, which would mean the bulk of my science prereqs for med school would have been taken at a community college. I would still have Ochem, Physics, Biochem, etc at UCSD though, and Im planning on trying to get into the summer anatomy program next year at Johns Hopkins.
So my question is..should I major in something else (only other topic I like is BioAnthro or maybe CogScience) and therefore have most of my chem, bio, and physics done at UCSD, but at the same time have to take a bunch of stuff that doesnt interest me? Or stick with Biology and do really well (honors) at community college and take some harder upper division biology at ucsd to show I can handle it?

 

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the latter

 

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So Iv got one more year left at my Community College, it will take me 3 years when all is said and done to transfer to UCSD(my first year out of high school I only took a few units and worked on an ambulance, this is when I decided I wanted to pursue medicine) Iv taken the first Bio and Chemistry class, and I was thinking of majoring in Biology as that is what interests me. BUT, if I want to major in Bio I need to finish up my Biology and Chem lower division next year (along with my last calc class) to graduate in a decent amount of time, which would mean the bulk of my science prereqs for med school would have been taken at a community college. I would still have Ochem, Physics, Biochem, etc at UCSD though, and Im planning on trying to get into the summer anatomy program next year at Johns Hopkins.
So my question is..should I major in something else (only other topic I like is BioAnthro or maybe CogScience) and therefore have most of my chem, bio, and physics done at UCSD, but at the same time have to take a bunch of stuff that doesnt interest me? Or stick with Biology and do really well (honors) at community college and take some harder upper division biology at ucsd to show I can handle it?

I went to UCSD. I actually switched my major to something more hard science... biochem. If you are dead set on medical right after college then you should definitely study what you want and focus heavily on your GPA. Depends on how set you are for medical school, if you wanted to work for a few years off before going into med school (like me) it's probably better to major in life sciences (i did biochemistry) to get a job at the many biotech labs in the UCSD area. I don't want to spend my early 20s in medical school, so I chose biochem so I could work in somewhere health research related for a while and apply later when im like 26.

 

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study what you are interested in. taking 1 year of bio and gchem isnt going to kill your med school dreams. At UCSD you would have physics and ochem in addition to the many many upper div bio classes and labs you will need to take to graduate. You have plenty of time to show that you can handle it. Majoring in something you hate will only make your life miserable and possibly lower your gpa. If you get As in ochem, physics, and your bio classes at UCSD, trust me that taking any pre med reqs at a CC will not matter. The main reason I think people say the no pre reqs at a CC is its safe advice that applies to everyone as not everyone is a bio major. If you ace genetics, biochem, cell bio, and neurobio or something similar to that at UCSD, I think it would be obvious that your grades in basic bio 101 at a CC were not a fluke😉.