Need some major help/recommendations

[pjyi]

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Before I tell you guys anything, let me give you my background.

I entered University of California, Irvine as a bio major in 2007.
After getting bad grades, (C+, B- in Gen Chem & C, B in Biology & 2.4 sGPA), I was afraid that I will go no where with these grades and switched my major to Economics and graduated with 3.2 oGPA. After I graduated, I retook 3 of prerequisite courses at community colleges and got A on all of them.

My 1st question to you all is:

Will they average the grades? or not count them at all?

Only recently, I spoke with friend of mine who is attending dental school. He told me that I shouldn't take courses at community college because it would look bad on my transcript.

My 2nd question:

Is this really true? Should I apply for post-bacc program instead?
Is there a significant difference in taking classes at post-bacc program rather than in CC? The reason why I'm asking is due to the tuition fee.. I just found out tuition fee for post-bacc program is very costly.....

Thank you for reading my thread and any feedback would help me

 

[misty818]

What a strange comparison...aren't nyu and Colgate pretty comparable schools?? Lolz

 

[GoBlue24]

Lol no colgate is pretty much ivy league

the toothpaste company??

Obviously whatever the admin officer says is probably accurate, but I feel like it wouldn't have much of an impact on your application =\. Especially when you're comparing a really good school (Colgate) to.... still... a pretty good school (NYU).


(Then again, I'm not sure how great of a school colgate is....)

(Then again x2, coming from a school that has the same name as a major toothpaste brand probably automatically gets you into dental school anyways 😀)

 

[misty818]

The people that went to Colgate from my high school were in the top 30-40% of the class. I wouldn't say it's on par with the Ivies 😉

 

[theleatherwalle]

and this is why we have the DAT...since GPA and hardness tend to be pretty subjective.