05-20-2025, 01:54 PM
(05-18-2025, 06:49 PM)Captainrekt000 Wrote: Step 4 - Now we have a good level of confidence taking college courses! Now for the prereqs
Check out the ASU courses on the website and you'll find some sciences already (I dont recommend their chem courses though)
Be careful, some of them make you do an at home physical lab. I recommend labs with Labster (online video game platform). Check the syllabi of every course.
Upper Iowa U - $350/credit - 6 months max self paced - no proctors for exams + quizzes - has EVERY SINGLE PREREQ
APUS - $350/credit - not self paced - 8 week courses - no proctors for exams/quizzes, has a handful of upper level sciences (300-400) - SCIN course # - has many many gen ed prereqs
I'm going to write up a proper report will each prereq and MY PERSONAL recommendation on where to take each one
Awesome write up. I usually recommend the people I help to take the prereqs first then the rest of the credits. I understand your rational, but if you can't pass the prerequisites in person, what's the point in proceeding? There is no way a CC General Chemistry course is harder than any med school course. Also, if you mess up your science GPA, you could give up early and not pay the additional tuition money to improve the overall gpa. However, some optometry and pharmacy schools also accept online prereqs so I previously looked into it. To be transparent, I haven't taken any of these courses online and I would retake them in person if I had to.
Barton Community College has online courses available Fall 2025: https://www.bartonccc.edu/enrollment/classes
General Chem (College Chem) 1&2, Organic Chem 1&2, Biochemistry, Bio 1, A&P 1&2, Physics 1&2 and a bunch more.
Don't know which tuition rate applies here: https://bartonccc.edu/enrollment/cost
Out of state tuition: $160 per credit hour
Barton Online - $165 (regardless of state residency)
Whatever's missing, you could probably take at Portage learning. $223 per credit hour. Some med school don't accept Portage. https://portagelearning.edu/courses
Westcott Courses might also work. Transcribed at Umass Global $~500-600 per course https://westcottcourses.com/courses/ I personally do not know anyone that has taken courses from this provider.
I have another document which included Upper Iowa U but I can't find it. It was a list of schools with self paced science prereqs and the only schools I remember that were included is Oregon State University and University of Alaska Fairbanks.
I don't know how feasible it would be, but WGU might be an option? It feels way too blatantly online for me but could technically work
Lab: Gen Bio 1, Gen Chem 1&2, Biochemistry 1, Gen physics
Not sure if they have lab: O chem 1, Physical Chem 1
https://www.wgu.edu/online-teaching-degr...ogram.html
https://www.wgu.edu/online-teaching-degr...ogram.html
Cheaper individual alternatives
General Biology with Lab
TOCC: BIO 181N 1 - Unity of Life I: Life of the Cell (available Fall 2025)
TEL: Principles of Biology I and Lab $300 https://www.tel-education.org/product/in...y-and-lab/
UOPeople: Biology 1 for Health Studies Majors $140 https://my.uopeople.edu/mod/book/view.ph...rid=160032
UOPeople: Biology 2 for Health Studies Majors $140 https://my.uopeople.edu/mod/book/view.ph...rid=160033
General Chemistry with Lab
TOCC: CHM 151N 1 - General Chemistry I (available Fall 2025)
TEL: General Chemistry with Labs $300 https://www.tel-education.org/product/ch...1-and-lab/
Human Anatomy & Physiology
TOCC: BIO 201N 1 Human Anatomy & Physiology 1 (available Fall 2025)
UoPeople: Human Anatomy & Physiology https://my.uopeople.edu/mod/book/view.ph...rid=175878
Biochemistry
UOPeople: Biochemistry $140 https://my.uopeople.edu/mod/book/view.ph...rid=389994
MicroBiology
Luna CC: BIOL2310E - Microbiology(DL) (available Fall 2025)
Physics
TEL: General Physical Science and Lab $300 https://www.tel-education.org/product/in...s-and-lab/
TOCC: https://www.tocc.edu/course-schedules $34.25 per credit hour
Luna: https://luna.edu/schedule $51 per credit hour up to 6 credit hours per semester


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