Hey guys, as I said I didn't get into any schools, but waitlisted at UCLA, Davis, SB and UCSD. Hopefully I get into one but if not I am looking at options. I was thinking on going to my community college even if I did accepted because I want to be able to focus on golfing and they have the best team in California. My other option was to apply to University of Arizona but I just don't want to go anywhere just to go to college. From what I've read that CC route will be ok for my future although I heard some Med schools do not accept credit and therefore you cannot apply. Any advice?
Didn't get in anywhere, only waitlisted.
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ANYWAY....
Go to a CC, get a 4.0 ( Work your ass off), get a good amount of EC's ( Shadowing, clinical volunteering, non-clinical/humanitarian volunteerings, hobbies ((Golf)), etc.) completed, and get accepted to desired 4 year college that transfers credits ( CSU, UC's, etc.).
Go to a CC, get a 4.0 ( Work your ass off), get a good amount of EC's ( Shadowing, clinical volunteering, non-clinical/humanitarian volunteerings, hobbies ((Golf)), etc.) completed, and get accepted to desired 4 year college that transfers credits ( CSU, UC's, etc.).
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Where you go to school doesn't matter nearly as much as some people would like to believe. That said, I don't think a large, well-known school like the University of Arizona qualifies as "just anywhere." That's really sort of an absurd statement, considering that your alternative is community college. If I were you, I'd do my best to get into a 4-year school somewhere you think you'd be happy, be it in California, in Arizona, or wherever. Community college isn't an atrocious plan, but I'd avoid it if you can generate other options for yourself.
I think OP may want to check out Student Golfer Network.
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It's a hobby but I figure I will have to stop for 4 years wherever I go. Anyways, the main thing I feared about a CC especially the local one was the fact that is is extremely difficult for people to graduate in 2 years but I heard there is a guranteed program for classes and if I did play golf well I get priority registration.
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Seriously, do not go to a community college of you are really serious about medical school. I live in Charlotte, NC and they have some pretty good community colleges but I wouldn't even want to risk some credits not being transferred. Even if they are accepted at your four-year college the medical schools may look downwardly upon the fact that your basic classes weren't at a four-year institution. Especially the important ones for the MCATS such as chemistry, biology, and your maths. I just wouldn't take a chance on it. But that's just my opinion.
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Not really, a start at a CC will not impair your journey all that much. In fact it may even enhance it if you leave with a 4.0 as opposed to finishing your first two years with a lower gpa at a 4 year. But obviously in the most ideal case you would want to start at a good 4 year and get good grades from the start. But anyway, I digress, go to a CC if you need to and don't worry too much about it.
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To echo some of the previous posters, these fears aren't grounded in reality. Medical schools will take CC credits without a problem if you do your first two years there. It might raise some eyebrows if you were enrolled at a four year university and kept going back to the CC for pre-reqs courses along those lines, but I'm not so sure about even that. You do need to be aware of if your local universities will take the credits, but at least in my home state, if you went to one of the state CC's, the state universities guaranteed they'd accept 100% of your CC credits.
I did two years at a CC to try to save money, and medical schools didn't seem to have any issue with it. If I had to do it over again, though, I would've just done all four years at the same university. Jumping around makes it more difficult to gather recommendation letters, they typically have fewer resources (worth considering if you're gunning for somewhere prestigious for medical school and want to do research and the like), and I think it delayed my graduation a year, since I wasn't completely sure what I had to do for my BA and didn't have al the courses available to me from the start.
I think the courses there were more difficult than the four year university, strangely enough, but this is obviously school dependant.
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