Post-Bacc or premed at 4year?

[nocturnalbear]

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Hello🙂

I graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor's in Psychology and was planning on doing my masters in clinical if not for medical issues that delayed me for a while. At the least this extra time gave me a chance to reconsider my future and I've decided to give Medical School a try, I've just recently learned about post-bacc programs and even after reading everything i could come across online I still have many questions left unanswered. So far the only premed classes I have taken are Biology 101 and 102 but time is not the biggest issue for me and I live 10 minutes away from the college I graduated from. So my main questions are
1. Would going back to my 4 year and taking the premed classes equal taking them in a post-bacc program as long as the grades are the same?
2. Does taking them post-bacc improve my chances of admission to medical school?
3. If so are there any possibilities of taking classes at 4 year and transferring credits to the post-bacc? (trying to lower the expense at any possibility)

Also the main schools I'm looking at right now are Georgetown and American University since I live close to DC but also considering VCU and UVA so if anybody has any comments about them I would love to hear them.

Any help I can get will be greatly appreciated
Thanks

 

[deleted248403]

1) Yes
2) No unless you go to a school with a high linkage
3) why are you transferring credits? The post-bac is just classes after you finish your undergrad, you are most likely not going to earn a degree from it

 

[nocturnalbear]

The programs for career changers are for people with few or no premed courses at all. I'm trying to find out if you have a few classes do they still make you retake those classes? If not maybe it's possible to learn exactly how many classes qualify as "few" and take them in a 4 year before starting the post-bacc. At $1k+ per credit any way to cut the cost would be useful

 

[medicii]

In my experience applying to post baccs and talking to advisors so far each student gets a semi-customized curriculum (except for the most formal structured programs like Goucher/Brynn Mawr/Scripps/Temple where they make you take/retake all the classes) so if you've taken a few courses (generally less than half of the core Bio/Chem/OChem/Physics) they may waive those depending on if they think the course is suitable.

I'd say your best course of action would be to call up the school's admissions counselors or send an email and they'll tell you what courses can be waived so you can save money and time.

 

[deleted248403]

i'd say your best course of action would be to call up the school's admissions counselors or send an email and they'll tell you what courses can be waived so you can save money and time.

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