If I am currently enrolled at one college, do I need to take all the prerequisite courses for dental school in this college, or can I take some prerequisite courses at another college as a nonmatriculated student? Will the dental schools still accept credit for these classes I took at another school? For example, I took Bio, Physics, Chem, Anatomy, and Physiology at my current undergraduate school. However, I want to take Organic Chem next semester, but I'm not allowed to take it at my school (because I'm taking too many credits, the classes are already filled up, etc). So I was thinking that I should take it at another nearby school (this school is NOT a community college) as a non-matriculated student and just pay per credit there. Will this be acceptable to the dental schools I want to apply to (NYU, Stony Brook, Columbia, etc)?
Pre-reqs?
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Call and ask the schools, it will matter differently to each one. Do you already have you degree? If so, then I don't think taking them at a 4-year institution will be a problem, but again it's on a school by school basis.
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I don't see any reason why they would penalize you for that. If you were repeating a course and took it somewhere else, that might raise a red flag. Otherwise, there's probably more people that do what your talking about than you think. I have 5 schools on my transcripts, 3 of which I only took one class at.
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i'm sure thats fine, but remember that when you are applying and working on your aadsas, you have to send in all of the transcripts from all of the colleges that you took classes at (if you want them to consider those classes). having multiple transcripts might make it so that your application takes longer to process.
