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Can you be 55 and go to college if you just have high school diploma? To learn how to be a dermatologist?

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  • 3 years ago
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    Dermatologist requires an MD degree before beginning residency (post-MD clinical training). With 4 year bachelor's + 4 yr medical school before even beginning residency, do you want to try looking for a residency (assuming you are top graduate of a highly rated university AND medical school) when you are already retirement age? Never gonna happen.

    The problem is not getting into community college, perhaps university. You're choosing a totally inappropriate career goal at this point in your life.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Of course, but you will never practice as a dermatologist. By the time you graduated and obtained your license you would be nearly 70.

  • 3 years ago

    You can go to college no matter how old you are. You may or may not have to take a placement test.

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