<p>I don't have the greatest grades (i'll end up a little over a 3.0), so if I got accepted to a college that wasn't exactly my first pick, and then I transfer to a good state school, will being a transfer student affect my chances to get into med school? Or put me at a disadvantage?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Not if take the pre-med reqs after you transfer and maintain a 3.5+ post transfer gpa.</p>
<p>Transferring can be hard because it can really mess up a lot of your extracurricular involvement. Obviously your GPA and your MCAT will be used as primary indicators of your academic performance.</p>
<p>How so? Sorry I don’t understand what you meant</p>
<p>I have no idea what you’re asking about, so I’ll assume it’s the first part of my question. If, for example, you’ve signed on with a research lab at one school, or a volunteer organization, you can’t exactly move that with you when you go to a new school. If you’ve developed a good rapport with a professor, it’s not like he’s going to travel with you. If you’re starting to learn which classes are good, which professors are boring… none of that knowledge carries over.</p>
<p>Oh, I get it, so the only disadvantages I’d have don’t actually have to do with the admission itself, just the “journey” getting there.</p>
<p>Now the real question is whether the lost in extracurriculars would be worth the increase in prestige. In the end its the net gain that matter.</p>
<p>The EC’s are almost certainly more important.</p>