<p>Hey all,
I have been thinking about transferring from my school to a more competitive school, but I'm facing a small dilemma. The reason being is that the school that I currently attend gave me a great experience (such as letting me participate in their med school's research) that I fear may not be provided by the school I might transfer to. It is a top tier school and ranked in top 5 public schools or top 30 national schools according to usnews. The only thing that is prompting me to switch schools is that I want to be considered a student not just a number (the school enrolls 40k students and its very overwhelming) I have been seriously thinking about going to UVA, UCLA or whatever you guys might be recommending.</p>
<p>My stats are:
-OOS student (virginia resident)
-Non-native English speaker but a U.S citizen (immigrated from a poor country in Africa)
-3.8 freshman year college gpa with 34 credits (taking primarily pre-med courses aside from philosphy and german courses)
-participated in med school's research studies (my name was published on pubmed.com as one of the animal neurosurgeons)
-certified as a firefighter/emt (been active in the ems since junior year in high school)
- shadowed my dad's surgeries since sophmore year in hs (about 200 hours now)
- this sophmore year I'll act as a CPR instructor for school's student EMS group
-got a 3.4 unweighted gpa in hs and 1050 on SATs ( took it 3 times before I called it quits :/ )</p>
<p>I'm just wondering if it's worth it to transfer or am I fine where I'm at.
Feel free to reply to this, all comments are welcomed.</p>