Will a medical school think less of my transcripts if I attend a two?
I wish I could say no - because it makes perfect sense to save money by starting at community college - but I am afraid the answer is yes. Medical schools will have a twinge of prejudice over the words community college in your transcript. They will also assume you were not academically strong in high school, and theyll wonder why. They will discount all your good grades for those first two years, under the theory that straight As are probably easy to get in a school where fellow students are not top-notch and professors may grade on a curve and have low expectations. They won't be reassured that you are ready for the academics and rugged lifestyle of medical school.. They will respect that you transferred to a four-year college and will look more closely at your grades from junior-year on. But you will be applying during fall of your senior year. Which means, the only 4-year college grades youll have to show them are two semesters worth from junior year. So you will have all these strikes against you, and youll be up against plenty of applicants who don't. Admissions offices have to find reasons to throw out most applications. Theyll say, Why should we take a chance on the applicant who has only done one year of real college we can evaluate? Why should this applicant be chosen over all our others? So I think community college will doom you - even if you do brilliantly. I'm sorry.