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[TheGrand]

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I'm currently a nursing major at a Community College in our area and will be officially on their program next year. I will probably be graduating from it within two years.

I have a 3.92 GPA and a 4.0 science GPA. My only B is in English 102. My plan would be to finish the 2 year ADN nursing program and get a Bachelor's from North Arizona University (I'm in Arizona btw). I'm also planning to spend another year doing the majority of my premed courses at the University of Arizona before going to their college of medicine, this would be (Orgo, Phy, Gen. Chem). I'm done doing my Bio and Eng requirements.

I'm currently in the honor's program in our college and doing a first hand psychology research. I'm also planning to finish it with the honor's seminar, a kind of a higher honor course. My question is, does a 1 year and 4 months of doing honor research projects counts as a research experience in the eyes of medical school?

Also, for those who have an experience in this. If I'm going to do all of my remaining requirements immediately next year after my bachelor's at a university, would this plan delay me for 1 year? I'm thinking of this because after doing the requirements, I would take the MCAT and then I would have to wait another year for an application, or is it? Is medical school applications always available per semester?

Last one: Does doing Bio and Eng at a CC hurt my application? I know one nursing student here in my CC who did all of her prereqs at the same CC with only a couple or so of University credits. She got accepted into the Phx campus (U of A) with only a 3.5 GPA. She even said someone got in with only a 3.0!

 

[JennaQ]

As far as GPA goes, if you manage to maintain that awesome GPA @ Arizona then I don't see why Adcoms would be highly judgmental on it. You have to keep in mind that some schools might discriminate if they see a downward trend after community college. And I personally think your first year in transitioning will be your toughest year since you have to substantiate that your community college success has nothing to do with it being an easy institution.

 

[Mobius1985]

I'm currently in the honor's program in our college and doing a first hand psychology research. I'm also planning to finish it with the honor's seminar, a kind of a higher honor course. My question is, does a 1 year and 4 months of doing honor research projects counts as a research experience in the eyes of medical school?

Yes, provided the project involves adding to human knowledge in a scholarly manner.

 

[Stratego]

Does doing Bio and Eng at a CC hurt my application?

The English is no problem. If you take upper-level Bio at the 4-year school and do well it helps dilute the impression that a CC course might have been easier. Most of all, kill the MCAT to prove your CC classes were sufficiently difficult to prepare you well for medicine.