The best CC schedule for admissions

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>Due to a few situations out of my control, I will be attending a local CC next year. My hope is to do 1 or 2 years at the CC, and then transfer to a 4 year school to complete a major in history or math. I also want to complete all my pre-med requirements during these 4 years so that I can apply to Medical School.</p>

<p>My understanding is that while CC credits are not make or break, schools prefer to see pre-med requirements from a 4 year university. Which would be the best possible way for me to organize my schedule so that my CC credits will not hurt me, or that I can minimize the damage they cause?</p>

<p>Some thoughts I have had:</p>

<li>Take my lower-level/easier pre-med requirements at the CC. This enables me to take harder classes when I go to a 4 year, and prove myself to admissions officers.</li>
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<p>Ex: Take the easier classes like Biology and Chemistry at CC, and save the harder ones like Organic Chemistry/Physics for the 4 year. Additionally, I could do something like take my Math/English/Other pre-med requirements at the CC, and save all my science courses for University.</p>

<li><p>Start working on the required classes for my Math or History major at CC, and eliminate the need to take them at a 4-year, creating room in my schedule and saving my pre-med requirements for the 4-year school.</p></li>
<li><p>Only take the intro/lower-level classes in pre-med science requirements at my CC, and save the upper level work in each subject area (Chem., Biol., Phys., OC) for my 4-year, allowing my to prove myself capable in harder classes to Medical Schools.</p></li>
<li><p>Some combinations of the above.</p></li>
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<p>Does anyone have any comments on this? Does it sound feasible? Any potential problems or things I need to be aware of?</p>

<p>In a perfect world I could just ignore every pre-med requirement until I get to a university, and only worry about classes for my major at CC, still graduating in 4 years. This is probably what I will do, to the extent that I can. But I don’t know if it will always be possible when you figure in the cost of college, credit combinations, required courses at CC, time constraints, etc, etc, etc. The numbered options mentioned above are only in the event that I HAVE to take a pre-med requirement at CC.</p>

<p>Thanks for reading.</p>

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<p>As mentioned in your final full paragraph, plan 2 is really the best one.</p>

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<p>Although it would look strange if you do typical premed ECs for 2 years while not taking any premed courses.</p>

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<p>I don’t think so at all; it would look like s/he was saving his/her premed requirements for a four-year institution, something that would most likely be looked upon favorably by the med school admissions people</p>

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<p>Well, in that case. Maybe the op can turn this into a opportunity to delve into numerous ECs. This is possible because the course work at the JC level isn’t particularly demanding. So the op could have alot more time for ECs the first 2 yrs relative to the traditional premed. The caveat is that JCs are highly lacking in worthwhile ECs. But that nothing that can’t be ameliorated with some ingenuity. For example, maybe the op can join premed clubs and societies at nearby universities, while shadowing a doctor on the side.</p>

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<p>just wondering, would doing OP’s plan #2 from above mean that you have to be a non-science major?</p>

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<p>Pretty much. Most transfers aim at 4yr state schools. Of which usually require one to declare ones intended major during the application process. Now this may not hold for private schools. But it is usually much more difficult to transfer to a private than a public. </p>

<p>This kinda sucks because the OP is put into a situation where his choices are restricted by fact that he is a premed.</p>