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How hard is it to get into Stanford School of Medicine with bad high school grades but good college GPA?

  • In High school I did Terribly. I plan on going to Adult School for a program in Surgical technology while going to Community college for my Associates and General Eds. If I do Great in College and get a Good GPA do you think that there is a possibility that I can get into Stanford? If not, What are some really good grad schools for plastic surgery(cosmetic)? Please give me some guidance, no negativity please.

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    Medical schools do not look at high school grades. Community college is a very poor path to medical school as medical schools do not respect the prerequisite science classes if they are taken at community college and if the student waits to take them at university, the student will need to spend three years at university to take the prerequisite classes and the science research classes that are also needed for admission to medical school. Stanford Medical School accepts fewer than five per cent of applicants, but an M.D. from any US medical schools if fine. Plastic surgery fellowships areextremelyy competitive as are surgery residencies. Most students who want to become plastic surgeons are not admitted by any fellowship program. Do not go to medical school unless you are willing to practice primary care (family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, ob/gyn) as half of medical students end up in those fields. Going to adult school for surgical technology is a detour from the path to medical school. Make sure that an adult school (as opposed to a community college) surgical tech program will lead to a job if you decided to take that program at all.

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Once you have a Bachelor degree, Grad schools are not going care what you did in HS

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Medical schools do not ask or care about high school grades. Starting at community college will hurt your med school application, and surgical technology will be a waste of your time - none of those classes will transfer to a bachelors degree or count towards the premed requirements. You do not study a specialty like plastic surgery until after med school (4 years) and residency (5 years), not in medical school.

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Focus on it one step at a time. Do well in comm. coll., then to get your undergraduate degree, taking a lot of science and pertinent math. Check the courses in a pre-med program and duplicate them. then apply to several med schools of varying rank. After that, focus on your internships and residencies, and any extra training in plastic surgery. Doing well on Step 1 means you will do well on Step 2 .... You can become the world's best plastic surgeon after attending less than the best med school if you learn it thoroughly and develop the best skills.

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