Prerequisite courses towards a degree?

[djz23]

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Hi,

I am currently finishing up my 4th year of a science undergraduate degree. However, I still need to take a some of the necessary prerequisite courses (physics, chem and english). I don't want to do them at my current school because they are killer. My plan is to do it at another university after I graduate. Does it matter that these prerequisite courses won't be towards a degree? Can I still use them for US medschools?

Any advice would be helpful. Thanks.

 

[theseeker4]

Hi,

I am currently finishing up my 4th year of a science undergraduate degree. However, I still need to take a some of the necessary prerequisite courses (physics, chem and english). I don't want to do them at my current school because they are killer. My plan is to do it at another university after I graduate. Does it matter that these prerequisite courses won't be towards a degree? Can I still use them for US medschools?

Any advice would be helpful. Thanks.

Yes, taking them after you graduate at another school will be acceptable. Med schools might care if it is obvious you are "dodging" difficult courses at your university, but that is usually only obvious if you take the hardest weed-out classes at an easier school while still attending your degree-granting institution (i.e., before graduation). Taking the missing pre reqs as a post-bac after graduation won't likely hurt you, provided you do well in them and have done well in the classes, especially any sciences, you took at your current school.

ETA: You said you want to take them at a university, so this is probably not needed, but you shouldn't take them at a community college. Med schools are more critical of pre-reqs taken at a CC than they are of pre reqs taken at a different university, so avoid a CC if at all possible.

 

[djz23]

Thanks!

I'm from Canada so I use "university" for "college". What do you mean by it's not necessary to take it at a university though?