Will med schools frown upon taking a Calculus I class at a community college.

[trekkiegirl19]

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Hi all. 🙂 I am a high school senior. After much thought,shadowing and hospital volunteering, I have decided to apply to medical school when the time comes. My plan is to major in Chemistry, as eventually becoming a P.h.D chemist is my plan B and becoming a high school Chemistry teacher is my plan C (if I fail to get accepted into medical school that is). There is quite a bit of a math requirement for the Chem major. I was thinking of taking Calculus with Analytic Geometry I at a community college this summer, then going much further in Math at my four year university, where I will be matriculating in the fall. I am aiming for a math minor. My question is, since your science GPA is calculated independently of your non-science GPA, would medical schools frown upon this, thinking I was attempting to mischievously boost my math and science GPA by shooting for an easier course? I am not by the way-my motivation for taking it at community college this summer is so I can afford to take fewer credits my freshman year while I am getting adjusted to college. Thanks so much for all your help!

Thanks again,
trekkiegirl

P.S. Sorry if this post makes zero linguistic sense-I had to type it real fast on my way out the door.

 

[MedPR]

Get an A and it won't matter

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[Drrrrrr. Celty]

They probably aren't going to care. Just get an A and then get an A in Calc 2 and Calc 3/Diff Eq.

 

[kmp0410]

I agree with whats been posted, there will be plenty of classes for you to prove yourself. Especially if you stick as a Chemistry major, I don't think one class at a CC (over the summer none the less) will hurt you.

 

[Ost3oclast]

Get an A and it won't matter

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Yep.

 

[JGimpel]

Taking a Calculus class at a CC won't hurt you at all and taking Engineering level Calculus won't get you any extra points. Go to the CC and get your A there. Few schools require more than one semester of a formal Calculus class. If you're really worried, check the Calculus/Statistics class requirements of the individual schools you have an interest in.

 

[Midifelder10]

Dude everything is fine.

 

[eDITN]

Like others have said, do well and it won't matter. You're taking classes ahead of matriculation which is great. Lots of medical schools don't even require calculus anyways.