Since all the people replying to me are really critical of me not wanting to go D.O. I guess I’ll apply to some as well when the time comes for applications. I still would rather go to a M.D. school over a D.O. school. It is just a preference and it’s kind of mean to criticize me over it. I’m only a sophomore, and I JUST started my premed courses this year. In other words, I messed up a bit in the beginning not halfway in. I’m not a biology or chemistry major either. I am a psychology major, so I have to handle two majors worth of work right now. Technically, I don’t have to take any BCMP classes in UCI. Even the biology counselor I met with told me I don’t have to and I can take it at other universities without penalty. She just advised that I should do super well if I’m going to take it somewhere else.
I would really like to retake my classes but right now it isn’t an option because of the rules. I’m genuinely curious but why is it bad to take classes at a Korean University? They teach in English and I am both fluent in Korean and English so it wouldn’t matter. The summer program at that university is actually VERY popular among Korean American students who go to school in America and want to take courses in the summer. It also says in their website that the courses are transferable to most American Universities. I know many people who have taken the university’s summer program and were successfully able to transfer credits. I am a dual citizen right now, but at the moment I only hold an U.S. passport since I consider myself Korean American. I am not a permanent resident in California nor mainland America. I pay international price to go to school in UCI.
I just want to take classes in Korea so that I can send both transcripts to the med schools I choose to apply to. They average out anyways, so I figured the more I dilute my GPA with good grades, the higher it will be. Either way I will be taking higher level classes in UCI so that’s nothing to worry about. I’m confident I can bring my grades up, I just had a bad year. I just wanted some advice on what I should do next. I wasn’t expecting a hoard of criticism over why I don’t want to go D.O. Yes, constructive criticism is nice, but I would really appreciate it if they were phrased a bit more nicely.