What is the best route to becoming a plastic surgeon or a dermatologist?

[ i am still in highschool]





but Should I go to a community college?





or is community college a waste of 2 years of time?





also what's the benefit of going or not going to a community college [ i'm talking about becoming a dermatologist/plastic surgeon not anything else]What is the best route to becoming a plastic surgeon or a dermatologist?
The best route would be to go to a top 4-year university for your bachelor's (Ivy league, Hopkins, Stanford, and similar-tiered schools). Plastics and derm are among the most competitive specialties to get into (although they might not still be by the time you're applying to residency....8+ years down the road). To have a better chance at matching into one of those fields you need to go to a very strong med school, and to get into a very strong med school you need to go to a very good college. Yes, it's still possible to break into those fields from lower-ranked schools, but it's more difficult.





You cannot go to med school with just community college, although some people do go to a CC and transfer to a university. The main pro is that you'll save tuition money. The main drawback is that it's tough to transfer into the top colleges from a CC, and you would be missing out on 2 years of opportunities. The specialties you mentioned look for a research background, and the earlier you start in research the better....a CC is not going to give you that background, whereas a 4-year university will. Yes, you could try to get involved in research after you transfer, but that would leave you only 1 year (instead of 3) to produce something valuable before applying to med school.