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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Plenty of kids who start out at CC get into med school. I wouldn't obsess over this. She should pick the right school for her based on whatever else is important to her, and then get the highest grades possible, especially in the science pre-reqs. She should make sure to take the classes that will help her with the MCAT (people forget that physics in on there). And she will want to get experience that shows her interest in medicine -- whatever that might look like for her as far as her interests and what opportunities are available. That experience could be a fancy internship in a lab doing cutting edge research on cancer, it could be learning about compassion while working long shifts as a CNA in a nursing home, it could be assisting on investigations for a medical examiner's office, it could be working as an EMT when home from school during summers (if you are in a rural area, that's great, an urban area, great, a suburban one, great -- learning opportunities everywhere there). Or whatever.   [/quote]

Community college classes are often not held in same regard as four-year college classes for medical schools.

Please see advice of medical school deans on this, not sure why DCUm has so many armchair experts who know nothing about the process:

https://www.prospectivedoctor.com/can-i-apply-to-medical-school-straight-from-community-college/[/quote]

PP here. First, I work in a med school with med students -- I'm not an "armchair expert." I know plenty "about the process." And I have had many (very successful) students who attended community college for their first two years of undergrad.

Did you even read that stupid "article" you link to? It does not say what you think it does. It is a clickbait POS that makes zero sense -- it suggests that students consider transferring to a 4 year college rather than applying to med school from CC. Well of course one would transfer to a 4yr college/uni before applying to med school. No one applies to med school from CC. You can't do that. It's a 2 year degree. That's obvious. That article is stupid. It's telling people not to apply to med school from CC, which is something you can't do anyway. And that article was not written by "medical school deans." The video placed there does feature deans discussing the issue -- including one that I know personally (the dean at USUHS) -- and the dean who discusses the issue very specifically says that starting out a CC and then transferring to a 4-yr is "looked at no differently than if someone spent all 4 years at a 4 year university."

So stop spreading nonsense and misinformation. In fact I will quote you back to you:  "not sure why DCUm has so many armchair experts who know nothing about the process"...[/quote]

The main point of that video is that pre-requisites for medical school not be done at community colleges, even if students attended for two years before transferring to a four-year school. Science classes at community colleges are not to the same rigor and caliber as four year school. The video makes that point. Not sure what low level medical school you are at, top ones aren't really wanting those CC science class students.[/quote].

No. Watch it again.

The Dean speaking in the video simply says that she needs to see success in upper level science classes. Those upper level classes are only going to be taken at a four-year college or university; they aren’t going to be offered at the community college level anyway. You do understand that someone who majors in a science has to take science classes all four years right? So a CC student who goes on to major in a science (which most premed students do) at a four-year institution will probably have taken many community college classes that were science classes. Probably all/most of the intro ones —and then will go on to take plenty of upper level classes at their four year school. And the speaker in the video is very clear that that is fine. As long as the student succeeds in the more rigorous upper level science classes at the four year they go onto attend. The prerequisites for medical school are not upper level classes, though — and clearly you don’t understand that. Again, you don’t know what you’re talking about. And It I work at Georgetown—which is not “low level.” But by all means keep blathering on and on about everything you think you know about med school admissions having obsessed over wanting your little Larlo to go to med school.

The situation that the dean addresses in that video is pretty limited. There are times when someone has gone to college and received a degree in, oh say, history or dance, and hasn’t taken any of the prerequisite science class classes that you need in order to even apply to medical school. It is possible to take all of those classes at a community college— those prerequisites are not the upper level science major classes. And people will do that, because it is the cheapest option. That is concerning from the standpoint of a medical school admissions committee because such a student has not demonstrated an ability to succeed in science classes in a more rigorous environment. That is not the same thing at all as a student who is premed from the beginning, but takes their first first two years of school — including those med school prerequisites like biology, organic chemistry and genetics— at a community college, which, if you were listening to the video, you would understand is fine.[/quote]

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