Dual Credit High School Math and Science considerations for premed

Pre-Med & Medical School
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Please read this FAQ about dual enrollment classes and medical school admission.

Important things to know for potential pre-meds:

  1. not all medical schools will accept Community college/DE credits as fulfilling admission requirements.

  2. those med schools that do accept CC/DE credits typically limit the number of DE credits they will accept. (For example, they may accept 1 or 2 semesters of gen chem, but not bio or physics. Or they may accept 1 semester of college writing skills, but not anything else. Each medical school will have its own specific policy about what DE credits they will or will not accept. There is no single universal national policy.)

  3. those med schools that do accept CC/DE credits expect (i.e. strongly recommend which in med school speak = require) students to supplement those DE credits with additional upper level coursework in the same departments as the DE credits if they want to be considered a strong applicant for admission

  4. CC/DE coursework is considered less rigorous than coursework taken at a 4 year college and that will be considered when making admission decisions.

  5. med school applicants who are younger than is typical (i.e. under 21-22) are at a strong disadvantage when it comes to admissions. Adcomms will question their maturity, their lack of lived-life experience, their commitment to medicine as a career, and the role of undue parental pressure on their career choice. Proving their fitness for medicine falls squarely on the shoulders of the student

  6. younger than typical applicants will be directly compared against all other applicants in the admission pool who have had additional time to develop the expected pre-med CV of clinical experiences, leadership skills, volunteerism and other expected Pre med competencies

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