Taking math courses in the summer...at a community college.

[jtimmer1]

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Hi, so I am considering taking some classes at a community college this summer while I am away from my university. I think I am going to take some gen ed requirements, but I may take a statistics course also. I am doing a double major, so I really need to get some classes out of the way. My pre-med advisor said "Well, it won't matter much, but you won't get into a Harvard or a Jonhs Hopkins". With that said, I am not particularly aiming for "a Harvard" of sorts, but I still wonder if this may screw me later on in the application cycle.

I would take the classes at my University, but it is pretty far away from my home; the community college is literally ~10 minutes from my house. Also, its not like I am taking two semesters of Biology at this CC, just a math course.

Any opinions?

 

[236116]

It will not matter, not even for Hopkins.

Go for it. If anyone asks, you tell the truth: scheduling issues. You were home, you took the class, you did well, it transfered back, you moved on.

 

[AdmiralChz]

Hi, so I am considering taking some classes at a community college this summer while I am away from my university. I think I am going to take some gen ed requirements, but I may take a statistics course also. I am doing a double major, so I really need to get some classes out of the way. My pre-med advisor said "Well, it won't matter much, but you won't get into a Harvard or a Jonhs Hopkins". With that said, I am not particularly aiming for "a Harvard" of sorts, but I still wonder if this may screw me later on in the application cycle.

I would take the classes at my University, but it is pretty far away from my home; the community college is literally ~10 minutes from my house. Also, its not like I am taking two semesters of Biology at this CC, just a math course.

Any opinions?

Convenience is a good reason for this. As long as your reason isn't to get a "GPA boost" than you're fine.

 

[TehDoc]

Yes son, take the math class at the CC.

 

[Stratego]

Agreed, you'll be fine.