Hello everyone! So I really need help in starting over or completing my pre-med undergrad degree and I'm TOTALLY lost as to where and how to start. A little about me before I let the questions pour our.
So I'm a 27 year old woman, wife and mom to 3 beautiful kids (aged 6,4, and almost 2). Due to my mom's health concerns and many other reasons (including getting married in undergrad) my grades slipped really bad when I first started college in 2012. I even made few Fs (Yikes! I know!) Eventually we had our first baby (totally unplanned) and that made it even harder to focus and study. Few months later, my mom finally had her liver and kidney transplants and desperately needed someone to take care of her post surgery so of course I had to be there. She later had a huge ulcer cut out from her stomach etc etc so basically I never got a chance to go back and finish my undergrad. I also had my other 2 kids during this time as I thought why not just have a family now and be done. I joined the community College for a semester or 2 for only 1 class each semester between my second and third child in 2017 but the responsibilities of being a stay at home mom were too many along with toddlers, that I took a break again. At the time I didn't realize cc classes would look bad from a med school perspective.
So my question now is, how do I get my head back in the game? Do I join the cc again and take some pre-requisites then join a 4 year university once I get accepted there and finish my undergrad? Or do I jump straight to a 4 year university? Its been years since I first went to the flagship university in 2012. Would going from a flagship uni to a cc look bad even if it's been a long time and with my situation? I've also moved to a different state and they didn't accept my application to the 4 year university I was trying to apply here. So it seems like cc is the only way moving forward, atleast for now.
What do you guys suggest I do? I'm still shooting to major in biology (like before). If I end up going to cc, can I take physics 1 and 2 there? Or any other pre-requisites I may need for med school? I know I shouldn't take the easy way out, but I've done most of my electives back in the days. All I've left are important high level science classes and physics.
Plz give me any advice, tips, tricks lol anything to move forward to. I've always wanted to go to med school but life got in the way but I'm finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and I need to make decisions fast.
Thank you
So I'm a 27 year old woman, wife and mom to 3 beautiful kids (aged 6,4, and almost 2). Due to my mom's health concerns and many other reasons (including getting married in undergrad) my grades slipped really bad when I first started college in 2012. I even made few Fs (Yikes! I know!) Eventually we had our first baby (totally unplanned) and that made it even harder to focus and study. Few months later, my mom finally had her liver and kidney transplants and desperately needed someone to take care of her post surgery so of course I had to be there. She later had a huge ulcer cut out from her stomach etc etc so basically I never got a chance to go back and finish my undergrad. I also had my other 2 kids during this time as I thought why not just have a family now and be done. I joined the community College for a semester or 2 for only 1 class each semester between my second and third child in 2017 but the responsibilities of being a stay at home mom were too many along with toddlers, that I took a break again. At the time I didn't realize cc classes would look bad from a med school perspective.
So my question now is, how do I get my head back in the game? Do I join the cc again and take some pre-requisites then join a 4 year university once I get accepted there and finish my undergrad? Or do I jump straight to a 4 year university? Its been years since I first went to the flagship university in 2012. Would going from a flagship uni to a cc look bad even if it's been a long time and with my situation? I've also moved to a different state and they didn't accept my application to the 4 year university I was trying to apply here. So it seems like cc is the only way moving forward, atleast for now.
What do you guys suggest I do? I'm still shooting to major in biology (like before). If I end up going to cc, can I take physics 1 and 2 there? Or any other pre-requisites I may need for med school? I know I shouldn't take the easy way out, but I've done most of my electives back in the days. All I've left are important high level science classes and physics.
Plz give me any advice, tips, tricks lol anything to move forward to. I've always wanted to go to med school but life got in the way but I'm finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and I need to make decisions fast.
Thank you