@zapheen . . . Good for you, very resourceful in saving money for med school. And I’ve seen various CVs of MDs and have seen examples like Santa Monica College, UCLA and UCLA Med in their 13th-20th years of education. I don’t think you’ll find many if any De Anza college students on this board. Maybe when the time comes for them to transfer to a four-year. I think it’d be best if you talked with them directly at De Anza…
The only thing that bopper didn’t seem to address was your going to SJSU instead and transferring later presumably to another university that was more of a med-school feeder. If the Ivies, except say for, Columbia are out, and your predominant focus would be on the UCs, then the answer would be a definite NO, at least for Cal and UCLA. Both would rather accept fully rising third-year students from community college than from the CSUs, and you’d have to wait until then in any case. The reasoning is that if someone goes to a competent CSU, then both universities will leave well enough alone and would rather consider and choose those that are needing placement into a four-year.