Questions about CC classes and graduating early

[DancingLlama]

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I went to a charter high school where you basically attended a community college for the last two years of high school. When I graduated, I didn't have to take any gen ed classes at my university so that is allowing me to graduate with a bach degree in 3 years. However, I took some of the dental prereqs there as well, like General Chemistry 1, Biology 1 (equivalent to the bio prereq for most biology classes) , writing, and Calculus 1 and 2. So my questions are would dental schools accept or even look down on those classes since they're from a CC and would graduating earlier than a traditional student make me a more competitive applicant? The CC was Salt Lake Community College, if that makes a difference. Thanks in advance for helping me out.

 

[Jungerr]

1. Some schools don't accept CC credits for prerequisites. You'll have to check each individual school.

2. Graduating in 3 years has little to no effect on admissions.

 

[kingenamel]

You can check on the school's website to see if they list anything about not accepting CC credits. I think it is also in the ADEA guide. The only school that comes to mind that says no to CC credits on their website is Tufts. There could be more.


The 3 yr bachelors degree won't give you a significant advantage from what I have heard.

 

[doc toothache]

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[Glimmer1991]

A few schools sort of "look down" on CC prereqs, but I think this can be easily overcome if you've taken upper-level classes at a 4-year college and done well in them. As others have mentioned, only a small few don't accept them at all; just avoid applying to these schools.

Graduating early, in itself, won't make your more competitive. I think it can help in certain circumstances, but I don't know that they necessarily apply to you. For example, if you consistently took 22-credit-hour semesters and graduated in 3 years while keeping a very high GPA, I think that would show that you could handle the rigors of a dental school schedule.

Graduating in 3 years won't hurt, though. I graduated in 3.5 and it wasn't an issue. Schools were just curious about what I was going to do in the meantime.

 

[tbond5]

I went to a charter high school where you basically attended a community college for the last two years of high school. When I graduated, I didn't have to take any gen ed classes at my university so that is allowing me to graduate with a bach degree in 3 years. However, I took some of the dental prereqs there as well, like General Chemistry 1, Biology 1 (equivalent to the bio prereq for most biology classes) , writing, and Calculus 1 and 2. So my questions are would dental schools accept or even look down on those classes since they're from a CC and would graduating earlier than a traditional student make me a more competitive applicant? The CC was Salt Lake Community College, if that makes a difference. Thanks in advance for helping me out.

I have more community college credit (same situation as you 2 years of cc in high school) than university credit and will not be graduating and received 4 acceptances. I'd say it mainly depends on where you apply. All of my math, physics 1 and gen chem 1 was taken at CC and 2 writing/English classes. Just so you know I was asked to interview at Washington, UNLV, Midwestern AZ, Roseman, and Marquette. I would say when you graduate makes no difference unless you take 7 or more years to get a bachelors.

Btw it's always nice to see a Utah Pre dent on SDN.

 

[DancingLlama]

Thanks everyone for the responses. Makes me kind of bummed out that this might end up being more hassle than it was worth.

 

[DancingLlama]

Btw it's always nice to see a Utah Pre dent on SDN.

Thanks, you'd think that there would be more considering everyone and their grandma is a pre dent in utah. What did you think of roseman? I live down the street from there.

 

[tbond5]

Too be honest is wasn't my favorite. I felt like my interviewer didn't care about what I was saying. Also when people say it is super easy I get nervous. Especially when most of my friends there have part time jobs. Dental school shouldn't be easy IMO. Plus it's expensive but I know plenty of people who loved it there and chose there over their state school.

 

[NavyDDS1990]

I've checked if schools accept CC credits, but most schools do accept them. It's just they recommend having pre-req credits from 4 year institution.
As far as I know, schools that don't accept CC credits for pre-req are Tufts, Temple, and BU.

 

[DancingLlama]

Too be honest is wasn't my favorite. I felt like my interviewer didn't care about what I was saying. Also when people say it is super easy I get nervous. Especially when most of my friends there have part time jobs. Dental school shouldn't be easy IMO. Plus it's expensive but I know plenty of people who loved
it there and chose there over their state school.

Sorry you didn't like it. I'm really favoring roseman since its so close to home. And for tuition I'm hoping to try to get an HSPS scholarship.

I've checked if schools accept CC credits, but most schools do accept them. It's just they recommend having pre-req credits from 4 year institution.
As far as I know, schools that don't accept CC credits for pre-req are Tufts, Temple, and BU.

Thanks for checking, looks like I won't be applying to tufts anymore.

 

[tbond5]

Ehh its all good I got the navy scholarship and a Midwestern az (2nd choice) acceptance so I'm pretty stoked,