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<p>Dental and medical schools may be different from PhD programs with respect to CC courses. It is commonly said on the pre-med forum that medical schools look down on pre-med courses taken at CCs, especially after one has matriculated to a four year school, on the assumption that it is easier to get high GPAs at CCs than four year schools (which does appear to be true between CCs and UCs at the highest GPA levels that are most relevant to medical school admissions, based on [University</a> of California: StatFinder](<a href=“http://statfinder.ucop.edu%5DUniversity”>http://statfinder.ucop.edu) – transfer students from CCs to UCs with 3.8 to 4.0 GPAs at CC tend to get 3.4 to 3.7 GPAs at UC).</p>
<p>The anti-CC stance of many medical schools is likely the reason for the existence of post-bac pre-med programs at four year schools, since the pre-med course work (mainly lower division science courses) could otherwise be taken at CCs.</p>