To make a long story short, some of my "low" grades (A- and B+) came back to haunt me during medical school interviews, as interviewers first assumed that I had dropped out of college and then degraded me for taking physics and chemistry courses while I was a pre-teen.
This might be a dumb question (I don't know anything about medical school interviews!) but wouldn't any application to graduate school have room for explanation of prior college experiences? In my DS's case he is taking a class (and expects to take future classes) with an objective of getting a particular license so these classes would not be on his "normal" degree-program college transcript, but if/when he applies to college and grad school, wouldn't his community college transcript be viewed in light of the circumstances? Or are those kinds of programs just straight "hard numbers" without consideration of context? Does it make a difference if he does not ask to be granted credit for these classes when he is an undergrad?
Thanks!
