How will an ASD (Associate of Science Degree) Help for Admission in Med School?
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If your life science courses are major level courses, it doesn’t matter if you take them in a community college or at a university. But you need to verify what level it is or you are wasting your time as far as med school requirements.
You are also probably wasting time in regards to nursing, too. Nurse education programs are specialized curricula and unless you are in a school that is offering it, you’re still going to have to take the program at a nursing school.
I’m not sure what you mean by pharmaceutical–if you mean you might want to be a pharmacist, I’d say the same thing applies to that as it does for med school–verify the course level. If you mean pharmaceutical research–you need to be going heavy in the chemistries.
Let’s assume something: let’s say the community college doesn’t offer majors-level science courses and that the reason you have opted to go to a community college is that your grades weren’t competitive for acceptance at the university. You may be sitting in a better position than you think. First of all, stop taking the science courses. When you transfer, they won’t be accepted into a major, which means you won’t be able to transfer all of your credits. DO start taking courses that WILL transfer and might meet the university’s requirements. Your goal is to transfer as many credits as possible. The reason is that if you can transfer in the ballpark of about 30 semester credits, you can transfer into the university as an advanced standing student, you aren’t competing with high school students for admission and your GPA and SAT scores almost become irrelevant (well, you can’t transfer any grade less than a C). That’s a little back door trick they don’t tell high school students.
Pharmacy school would require a BS.
Nursing school, on the other hand is a 2 year undergraduate degree. Some of your ASD courses might transfer into a nursing program. You’d be better off just going to nursing school
Many nurses become doctors. You can get another 2 years in nursing school and have a BS in Nursing. This would be very good for medical school & you could work as a nurse, as needed.
You really need to talk to the guidance counselor at the community college you are attending. Read college catalogues from other schools that have medical degrees.
Take lots of math, science, chemestry courses.
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