Want to transfer in one year? Get Some advice here!

Lemaitre1
Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:37:02 +0000

If you are serious about premed than you can not be serious about completing 57 semester units in one year. There are two things that get you invited for an interview when applying to medical school and they are undergraduate GPA and MCAT scores. The minimum acceptable GPA for most medical schools is probably 3.6 with a MCAT score of 30 and no score lower than 9 on any of the three parts. Whether their suspicions are valid or not, many medical schools believe that CCs lack the academic rigor of four schools so if you take any medical school prerequisites at your CCC you absolutely can not less than an A in each course. Do not take any of your medical school prerequisites online. Again, there presumptions may be mistaken but medical schools know nothing about the rigor of online courses and some medical schools may not be aware that internet courses even exist.

You should also be aware that if are taking that many units it might be more than you can handle and you will end up with some Ds, Fs and Ws. While you can still make things all right with the UCs through Academic Renewal and retaking the course and replacing your failing grades and withdrawals that is not the case with medical school applications. All medical schools use AAMCAS to evaluate your transcripts and calculate your GPA and they will use every college level class you have ever taken. If you use academic renewal AAMCAS will still use the failing grades you originally received to compute your GPA. If you fail a class and retake it with a passing grade the UCs only consider the replacement grade, AAMCAS will include both grades. Finally, while the UCs seem to be willing to tolerate an almost unlimited number of Withdrawals without it affecting your chance of admission. On the other hand most medical schools looking at your transcripts sees every W as an F.