Mom, CC graduate, trying to transfer, almost no relevant coursework

[mynameaintearl]

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Hi all,
this is my first time posting here.
I am currently attending a CC. I am going to be graduating with exactly 90 credits in December with my AAS. I have done a lot of floundering around in finding what I want to do. In addition, many of my classes were completed while I was still in high school. I was young and had no idea what I was doing.

Now I'm 23, a mom, and trying to get into an undergrad program at a university that will lead to me going into med school. My college level cumulative is 3.31. However, if you were to take out all the classes I took before I graduated high school it would be 3.85. Almost all of my electives are in the humanities. The only science classes I have taken include a 4 credit intro to bio w/ lab, an environmental science class I got a C in, an interdisciplinary class that somehow counts towards my sci credits even though it was mostly gender studies, and the intro to chem class I am currently taking that is not even part of a series.

So basically, I have no idea how I'm going to make this work/if I can make this work in the two years I have left to get my Bachelors. What would my options be if I graduate with a degree in Psychology (for example) and took most of the prereqs in grad school? Is that even a thing?
Ideas?

Thanks

 

[wholeheartedly]

Hi all,
this is my first time posting here.
I am currently attending a CC. I am going to be graduating with exactly 90 credits in December with my AAS. I have done a lot of floundering around in finding what I want to do. In addition, many of my classes were completed while I was still in high school. I was young and had no idea what I was doing.

Now I'm 23, a mom, and trying to get into an undergrad program at a university that will lead to me going into med school. My college level cumulative is 3.31. However, if you were to take out all the classes I took before I graduated high school it would be 3.85. Almost all of my electives are in the humanities. The only science classes I have taken include a 4 credit intro to bio w/ lab, an environmental science class I got a C in, an interdisciplinary class that somehow counts towards my sci credits even though it was mostly gender studies, and the intro to chem class I am currently taking that is not even part of a series.

So basically, I have no idea how I'm going to make this work/if I can make this work in the two years I have left to get my Bachelors. What would my options be if I graduate with a degree in Psychology (for example) and took most of the prereqs in grad school? Is that even a thing?
Ideas?

Thanks

You don't have to graduate in 2 years if its going to take longer to finish your degree or pre reqs.

Just a note that any college courses you took in high school will be counted towards the GPA med schools look at.

 

[cabinbuilder]

You can have a bachelor's in any degree as long as you take the pre-req's too for medical school admission. You don't have to finish it in 4 years. There is nothing wrong with having to extend in order to fit it all in and do well in the classes that count.

 

[deleted480308]

I would recommend taking the prereqs in undergrad....cheaper and easier. Get a degree in literally anything that says bachelors (you'll find a liberal arts or interdisciplinary studies is basically a whole degree of electives)

 

[precisiongraphic]

You don't have to graduate in 2 years if its going to take longer to finish your degree or pre reqs.

Just a note that any college courses you took in high school will be counted towards the GPA med schools look at.

Both of these are good points but with the caveat that I've been told that adcom members take into account "Upward trends." So as long as you're above 3.5 sGPA or so, you won't be screened out initially and they'll note that years 3+ have a lot higher GPA than, for example, year 1 (HS) and year 2 (CC).

I agree that you don't have to take only four years to finish your degree and you don't necessarily have to go to a post-baccalaureate program or a graduate program. (Note that many schools don't take graduate level grades as a way to make up for low undergrad grades either.) For another thing, post-bacc and grad programs are expensive and time consuming, much more so than taking 5 or even 6 years to finish pre-reqs.

My advice would be to stop, do not pass go and do not take any other classes that are going to be part of your BCPM sGPA until and unless you are ready to ace them: Get As on all your remaining science pre-reqs. This will be the best way to put concerns about your High School courses to rest. Get a tutor if you need one for Ochem or Physics.

Second piece of advice is to talk to your CC premed academic advisors. I am a CC instructor and most have real-world advisors who know what they're talking about. There are often pre-med fairs where the four-year transfer schools come to the CC for transfer day and give seminars etc. and you can talk to admissions counselors. Plan out the classes to take before you transfer and target a transfer school or two and plan out the rest of the pre-reqs there.

Also start thinking about volunteering and clinical exposure. Better to do it 5 hours a month over two years than cramming it in your last year, especially when you are a parent and have other responsibilities.[/QUOTE]