AA after BS

[Jonathan Whatley]

I knew an incoming student a top U.S. medical school who took anatomy and physiology online from a community college the summer before starting to help prepare. And he said it was helpful.

I also know students with bachelor's and sometimes master's who thereafter used new community college courses for prerequisites or supplements for their applications for health professions schools. This in addition to the practice described upthread of going back to associate's level to complete a health profession degree itself.

[bjcheung77]

As I mentioned earlier, the Associates is a good idea if it's in a field/subject matter that your Bachelors is different in, for example, people at TESU get the ASNSM Computer Science along with the BSBA CIS for free en route to the degree. I would not purposely go for an AA or ASBA along with the BSBA unless it's free, doesn't take any extra courses, energy, money, time to get them.

A good reason to have an Associates in a different subject matter is to get into that specific field, such as an AA, AAS, AS in Surgery Tech or Vet Tech, or something like Nursing and moving up to a business admin or management later, they can ladder up to a Bachelors in Leadership or Management. What students should do is look at complementing degrees and not redundant options.