Taking bio 1 and 2 at another uni

[awasdeq]

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Hello, I had a question on how I should go about this. I have a C- in bio 1 and a W for bio 2. I did pretty badly due to various reasons, but to sum it up I had a terrible prof for bio 1 and a bad study habits. For bio 2 I took too many classes that semester and that was the class I ended up dropping. My gpa stands at barely a 3.0. Within my public college system I am able to take classes at our other 4 year schools. I was wondering if its fine to take these classes over the summer at another school? My school doesn't offer biology over the summer but the other school does. I am just worried as it creates a bad trend on my transcript. This is the only pre reqs I would do this for as every single other class(gen chem, orgo, and physics) all have really good professors.

It is hybrid with the online portion being the lecture and the lab being in person. I wanted to know if its fine if I take bio 1 during the summer at another 4 year uni hybrid. I am doing ok with my other science classes, I have a B in gen chem 1 and gen chem 2 is going ok so far. Really just worried on what I should do because I really do not want to create a bad trend on my transcript.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Welcome to the forums.

We don't have a few important details: what year are you in school, or did you complete your bachelor's degree? Have you talked with your academic affairs office about the bureaucracy you must complete to have courses as the other school be credited towards degree completion? Otherwise, as long as the bio classes are appropriate for science majors, you should be generally okay.

 

[AJS59]

I think it's okay.

 

[Goro]

Hello, I had a question on how I should go about this. I have a C- in bio 1 and a W for bio 2. I did pretty badly due to various reasons, but to sum it up I had a terrible prof for bio 1 and a bad study habits. For bio 2 I took too many classes that semester and that was the class I ended up dropping. My gpa stands at barely a 3.0. Within my public college system I am able to take classes at our other 4 year schools. I was wondering if its fine to take these classes over the summer at another school? My school doesn't offer biology over the summer but the other school does. I am just worried as it creates a bad trend on my transcript. This is the only pre reqs I would do this for as every single other class(gen chem, orgo, and physics) all have really good professors.

It is hybrid with the online portion being the lecture and the lab being in person. I wanted to know if its fine if I take bio 1 during the summer at another 4 year uni hybrid. I am doing ok with my other science classes, I have a B in gen chem 1 and gen chem 2 is going ok so far. Really just worried on what I should do because I really do not want to create a bad trend on my transcript.

It's a common pre-med delusion that one's courses have to be taken in four years straight at the same institution.

You're fine!

 

[awasdeq]

Welcome to the forums.

We don't have a few important details: what year are you in school, or did you complete your bachelor's degree? Have you talked with your academic affairs office about the bureaucracy you must complete to have courses as the other school be credited towards degree completion? Otherwise, as long as the bio classes are appropriate for science majors, you should be generally okay.

Sorry for the late reply. I am currently in my spring semester of sophomore year. As for taking it at another school and making it transfer to my degree, within our public college system, we have an internal portal that allows us to apply to classes at other schools, and our home school will approve them if they're equivalent. So it should be the same as for science majors. I recently applied to some other schools, including one of them being a community college as a lot of the other 4 year schools don't have anything scheduled or are too far. I was able to apply to one 4-year and one community. If I were to be approved only for the community college, would it impact my chances?

 

[awasdeq]

It's a common pre-med delusion that one's courses have to be taken in four years straight at the same institution.

You're fine!

Sorry for the late reply, and thank you very much. Just a quick question: I am applying to other colleges within my public college system for Bio 1 or 2 and I've only been able to apply to one 4-year and another community college. Would it be a bad idea to take it over the summer at the community college if I only get approved for that one? Would it hurt my chances?

 

[awasdeq]

I think it's okay.

Is taking it at a community college fine because I don't have too many other 4 year colleges to take it at. My school has an internal system that shows you course equivalents, and then from there, they will approve it. But I only have 1 four-year and 1 community college available. If I were to only get the community, would taking that course at a community hurt my chances?

 

[wysdoc]

Yes, you can take it at another college or a community college, as long as those schools are accredited.
Take your class in person and for a grade (not Pass/Fail).

Don't worry about whether your 4-year school accepts it as a transfer credit or not, because when you apply to medical schools they will want the official transcript from ALL the schools you attended, and clearly those CC courses are valid for credit at your CC.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

From a different perspective, you should worry if the course credit matters for your degree audit. Otherwise you could have to retake those courses to finish with your degree. (Med/prof schools won't care except perhaps if you don't get your degree... but most schools want 90 credits minimum. Discussion for later.)

I'm not worried if you took Bio 1 or 2 at a different school that your original school has an agreement with (or is part of a consortium, such as the Five College Consortium: About the Five College Consortium | FCI).

 

[LizzyM]

You certainly can't be accused of skipping out on a weed-out course or attempting to protect a 4.0 by going to a different school over the summer. Do check "rate my professor" for the other school's summer instructor. I've heard of students who went out of the pot and into the fire by going elsewhere over the summer only to find the instructor to be a disaster.