The reason why I am actually going out of state is because I did dual enrollment funded by my state and I am re-taking my science classes to get a really high GPA for medical school (Even though I have a 4.0 science GPA). The problem is if I were to go to an in-state institution I would not be able to re-take my science classes. I want to move back to my home state to continue year-round volunteering/shadowing. Plus I have severe food allergies and I think just for security purposes I should move back to my home state.
Volunteer hours: 510 (Goal: 1000 hrs)-I can continue at the same hospital I was volunteering at
Shadowing: 0 (trying to focus on volunteering) (Goal: 500)
Medical schools will see that you repeated courses. This might look like grade grubbing (though pointless if you got a 4.0 GPA so far). Why not just take some more advanced courses?
@ucbalumnus The reason being is the dual enrolled science classes I took were a joke, I need more rigor and the current school I am going to is making all the freshman take their science anyway.
Have you tried the old final exams of the overlapping courses at the new school?
Something doesn’t make sense…
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You did DE while you were in high school, so why are you retaking those classes??
Are you a rising sophomore?
Why did you go OOS to begin with?
What is your current GPA?
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Shadowing: 0 (trying to focus on volunteering) (Goal: 500)
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Goal 500??? lol…so not necessary. If you shadow 100-200 hrs total with 3-5 different specialties, that will be enough.
What are your parents saying about the cost of going OOS?
@mom2collegekids I am going out of state because dual enrollment in my state is funded by the government, and I can’t re-take them since I the government has already funded them. The dual enrolled classes I took weren’t difficult enough since the professors had to teach to a wide variety of students. Technically I am going to be a sophomore, minimal credit wise, but I am considering double majoring. Also, it is possible to do 500 hours. For volunteering I literally set aside a day for 8-10 hours and volunteer throughout the hospital. I can most certainly do the same for shadowing. The problem for out of state was that I never received enough scholarship money to begin with.
@ucbalumnus No, I never considered it, I’ll try thanks!
If you find that you know the material on those old final exams well, you probably do not want to waste your time and tuition retaking those courses. It is hard to see a situation where a repeated college course can look good on a medical school application, especially if you got an A the first time but a lower grade the second time. Remember that all college courses and grades, including those taken while in high school, are reported on medical school applications.
You may want to ask on the pre-med forum to see if others with more medical school admission knowledge have any comments on repeated courses.
" The problem for out of state was that I never received enough scholarship money to begin with."
Then don’t study out of state. If it is too late to enroll in your home state for the fall, take a gap year and apply for spring, summer, or fall 2016. And as others have written above, don’t worry about repeating Chem/Bio/Physics/Calc 101, just do any review work needed and move on to the next level of courses.
In our house, once you get to 3 excuses it is assumed that you just don’t want to do something. You are all over CC trying to find reasons not to go to VT. Whatever the reason- simple cold feet (anxiety b/c it’s new / unknown) or somebody whose opinion you value led you to feel that VT was inferior in important ways, or you have a new boy/girlfriend that you don’t want to leave, etc.- you clearly don’t want to go to VT. So stop shopping for justifications and face up to that head on and honestly.
What are your choices?
VTech or gap year, right? Which one appeals to you more?