Summer Pre-Requisite Courses?

[DrMarx]

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I'm still in my first semester at Community College, and I was at a college fair recently. I was talking to the representative from Temple University, and I was told that Dental Schools don't like it if you take your science and math pre-reqs in the Summer semesters. I started Community College with Intermediate Algebra for my math course (Yes I know, that's pretty bad). With my math course being so low, I wasn't able to start taking any of my sciences my first semester at CC, as a result I was interested in taking some sciences in the summer to get caught up. So, I'll get to my question, If I have a 3.6-4.0 for my science GPA and overall GPA, higher end DATs, and great LOR's, would it matter that I took some of my sciences in the summer SOLELY to get caught up? (speaking admission wise)

I know Dental schools think that students take Sciences at community colleges while attending 4yr universities to get an easy course, this is not the reason I am doing it.

 

[carlfusco]

I think the fact that you're taking the pre-reqs at a CC rather than a 4-year would be your biggest detriment. I haven't read anything on here indicating that Summer pre-reqs are lesser in any way. They're certainly not easier, at least at my uni, try packing a semesters worth of orgo into 1 month... Makes for some long study days.