What are my options?

[shann74]

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I am about a senior this upcoming fall 2014 at UTSA with a health degree. However I've recently laid out my options of what I wanted to be towards my career and I would like to go to medical school. I took some premed classes in the beginning of my freshman year when I was a chemistry major. Bio 1 and chem 1 along with their labs, however I know still have about 2 years of prereqs I have to do.

I want to know what options I have available in order to get into medicine school. I have no idea what my options are, and I am debating whether or not I am too late. I tried to find a site that I can see what medicine schools can accept community college classes as premed but I haven't really found any according to the AAMC.

Do I have to hold off of graduating and take premed classes? Or graduate and take classes at the four-year institute? (I will have to pay extra money and won't receive tuition because I will be a non-seeking degree student.)

Can I graduate and take premed classes at a community college? (I would like this options since I have no money and will be paying off my loans)

Should I apply for a postbacc or graduate program for medicine school? (What is a postbacc program and how will it help me get into med school?)

I would really appreciate it and definitely need some guidance because I am completely lost on what to do.

 

[theseeker4]

I am about a senior this upcoming fall 2014 at UTSA with a health degree. However I've recently laid out my options of what I wanted to be towards my career and I would like to go to medical school. I took some premed classes in the beginning of my freshman year when I was a chemistry major. Bio 1 and chem 1 along with their labs, however I know still have about 2 years of prereqs I have to do.

I want to know what options I have available in order to get into medicine school. I have no idea what my options are, and I am debating whether or not I am too late. I tried to find a site that I can see what medicine schools can accept community college classes as premed but I haven't really found any according to the AAMC.

Do I have to hold off of graduating and take premed classes? Or graduate and take classes at the four-year institute? (I will have to pay extra money and won't receive tuition because I will be a non-seeking degree student.)

Can I graduate and take premed classes at a community college? (I would like this options since I have no money and will be paying off my loans)

Should I apply for a postbacc or graduate program for medicine school? (What is a postbacc program and how will it help me get into med school?)

I would really appreciate it and definitely need some guidance because I am completely lost on what to do.

Usually it is better financially and logistically to take the classes before graduating, if at all possible. Taking them at a community college is a last choice option, but it is an option if you can't afford anything else

You don't have to hold off graduating, but it is often a good choice and less expensive than entering a post bach.

A post bac is any undergraduate classes taken after graduating with a bachelor's degree. Formal programs are usually either for those who graduated with an unrelated degree who need to get the pre-reqs in, or those who graduated with a poor GPA who need to boost it.

What is your current GPA, including every class you ever took at the college level (including high school dual enrolment if applicable, and any class that you took and later re-took due to a poor grade)? A Special Master's Program (SMP) is usually not needed unless you have a low GPA that cannot be significantly budged by additional coursework, and other graduate programs are of limited value.

Let us know if you have any other questions.

 

[Law2Doc]

Delay graduation and take the prerequisites at your current school. If you can't do that suck it up and do the courses at a four year college with open enrollment. Cc should be your last choice because at least some med schools won't value high grades from them given your lack of competition.
You aren't at all late -- there is no timeline and many people go to med school even decades after college.