<p>I know someone, somewhere has asked this, but I can’t find it.
If I go to no-where-ville religious school that no ones ever heard of, will it hurt my chances of getting into a med school? Not Ivy or anything, just A med school.</p>
<p>A school does not need to be religious, but it does need to have resources available to you. A no-where religious school may limit your ability to fully develop your application, but it doesn’t necessarily mean it is impossible.</p>
<p>It has pretty good resources, labs and things, as fars as I know. But will, like a state school, frown on religious or prestige-less… or both?</p>
<p>No they won’t frown on religious or nonprestigious schools</p>
<p>Not really. I’m starting in community college, but I’m planning on transferring to another college. My mom didn’t go to Medical School, but she became a pharmacist and she started out at the same comm college I’m at now.</p>
<p>I think you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>"But will, like a state school, frown on religious or prestige-less… or both? "</p>
<p>-I am not aware of any Med. School (including top ones) frown on state schools. I do not have any knowledge about religious. Presitge-less is just an opinion, so I am dismissing it all together.</p>
<p>Do not take the medical school pre-requisite courses at community college, as an aside.</p>
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<p>****. See the problem that arises becomes exactly this: if you did not get into a university straight out of highschool, most transfer universities expect community college students to take heavy semesters that more often than not, require you to take a good extent of med school required pre-reqs to even get in.<br>
Do you know which medical schools do or do not accept pre-requisites from community college? My schools of top interest include UCSF/Stanford/Columbia/UCLA/UCSD/John Hopkins. I have heard that the MSAR guidebook has information regarding this. Maybe I will buy it, maybe not. If you know anything your feedback would be much appreciated!</p>
<p>Can you just take courses that satisfy your core requirements of the uni you want to transfer into? like govt, history, humanities, etc. It’s not that you absolutely can’t take med school prereq courses at cc, but that it isn’t recommended (pretty much means you shouldnt. Some concerns such as cc classes arent as rigorous). There’s this guy that does youtube videos for premed students. He went from a cc to Berkeley (or some state school), then went on to attend Harvard for med school. It can be done.</p>
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<p>You can’t find it? This is essentially the same thing as a FEATURED DISCUSSION for this sub-forum.</p>
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<p>There is no such med school. (None that would admit it publicly, even if they believed it.) </p>
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<p>That doesn’t follow transfer protocol. In nearly all cases, a transferee must complete prereqs for the intended major prior to transferring. (The new college wants some assurance that the transferee will get out in two years; otherwise, they won’t be accepted.) If one intends to major in bio, for example, a transferee will have to have taken math, Gen Chem & Bio at the juco. Bio transfers to UC Davis are recommended to also take Organic at the juco prior to acceptance.</p>
<p>Therefore, transferees can demonstrate rigor by acing upper division science courses at the four-year Uni.</p>
<p>*If I go to no-where-ville religious school that no ones ever heard of, *</p>
<p>The fact that it’s religious is irrelevant. Med schools accept students from Catholic, Lutheran, etc, colleges all the time.</p>
<p>However, the “no one has ever heard of” may be an issue…especially it it’s perceived to be a bible college where science courses are not allowed to consider evolution as a theory or will only teach that the world is about 7,000 (or so) years old.</p>
<p>If you go to a community college and then transfer, your application does have a red flag on it. You will need to firmly tell why (ok, you blew high school and then grew up).</p>
<p>A “religious school” is irrelevant - unless it is a small school in the middle of nowhere. Mom2’s advice is solid.</p>