<p>Good question...</p>
<p>Hopefully, those who really know will answer, but my gut tells me that it's ok to take precal at a CC (and maybe even over the summer) and then take Cal at his 4 year.</p>
<p>I don't think it hurts med school admission that he didn't take pre-cal in high school. I'm not even sure that the med schools would know that. I know kids who took pre-cal in high school, but when they took the math placement at college, their score indicated that they needed to take it again before going to Cal. So, they took it at both high school and college. </p>
<p>And, as long as you end up doing well in all of those college math courses (pre-cal and cal), I don't think med schools will care that you "needed" to start with pre-cal. That could just suggest that your high school math program wasn't that great...but you can do well when given the opportunity.</p>
<p>Besides....I don't think this student can just jump into Cal. Don't colleges require some kind of placement testing or some kind of indication that a student is ready to take Cal?</p>