u/thatweirdshyguy

So I’ve been going back to school with intent to apply to a medical imaging program at Ivy Tech, a community college, but everything I’ve read indicates the demands are very very high, I could have a 4.0 GPA and a certification and still not be accepted.

I tried my best but in Anatomy 101 I left with an 89%. Medical terminology I left with a 96%.

My questions are more or less- do standard 4 year universities have as intense prerequisite requirements/standards for acceptance into their programs as a CC? Should I consider retaking anatomy? Is getting a certification a must or usually just a nice bonus?

I’ve spoken with others before as well as my advisor and most of the answers seemed to boil down to “it doesn’t hurt to try”

I recently decided to go back to school for medical imaging, chose to go to summer courses just to get started but I’m realizing that may be a problem given the workloads and the 8 week courses

Currently I am registered for 15 credit hours.

My courses are:

HLHS 105 Medical Law
APHY 101 Anatomy
HLHS 101 Medical terminology
HLHS 100 Intro to Healthcare
BIOL 101 Biology

Based on these first few days I’m not gonna have much if any free time, the advisor I messaged suggested doing only 2, but that seems severe. What are your recommendations? My thought is to drop 1 or 2 courses, namely the law and intro courses, and focus on the harder courses to get them taken care of.