I’ve been admitted to Penn Nursing. I was really excited about Penn’s nursing program and their np program, but the past couple months, I’ve been doing an internship with a doctor and it honestly only took a month for me to realize that I absolutely want to go for an MD not an NP. So I know the university policy is handling internal transfers case by case and that you have to spend one year in your original school before you can transfer. I can live with that option, but I feel like I’m going to end up taking a lot of nursing classes that won’t even credit towards premed and I’ll essentially have to retake in the college. Does anyone know if it is even worth trying to talk to anyone about an internal transfer before starting freshman year? If there is any possibility I would really like to try.
The chance will be very low, if any. Penn admits by school. Nursing is regarded as the easiest to get in. Penn may think that you are using a backdoor to get into CAS. I do not think that you will be taking too many nursing classes during the first year. You can check the curriculum.
@p3nn2020 I don t necessarily agree with what @f2000sa is saying. Nursing is the easiest school to get into by acceptance rate simply because it is extremely self selected. Penn nursing is the top at its field and the idea that the people there are somehow inferior in terms of intellect and achievement is not true, based on the many nursing students I am have met on campus. Btw there are quite a few nursing students at Penn that are pre-med. I cant speak specifically to the difficulty of transferring from Nursing to CAS, havent met anyone who did that/wanted to do it but i am sure it is not impossible. Lastly, yes Penn does admit by school but there are not substantial differences in the quality of students between schools.
@Penn95 Thanks. OP wants to transfer before the start of the freshman year. I think that the chance is pretty low.
Thank you guys. I know the chance is slim, but I think I’ll give it a shot because it would give me a lot more freedom in courses for my freshman year.