<p>How hard is it to enter med scool if a person transferred in his/her undergrad? How med school admission process views such people? Is it reaaly practcal to do premed while tranferring?</p>
<p>Students transfer for all sorts of reasons (personal, financial, poor fit, etc).</p>
<p>The transfer itself has zero bearing on the applicant’s likelihood of admission.</p>
<p>What a transfer may affect:</p>
<p>1) loss of credits when transferring (very common) This may delay graduation or ability to take MCAT with peers</p>
<p>2) less time to form good relationships with professors for LORs</p>
<p>3) less time to do research (since the transfer will essentially be starting over at new school and will be competing with both established upperclassmen and the school’s own freshmen for available research lab slots)</p>
<p>4 ) all of the above may cause a transfer to need to delay his application until the completion of senior year thus necessitating a glide year after graduation.</p>
<p>So a transfer may or may not be wise, but only you can decide if the the potential need to delay med school apps until after graduation outweighs the issues with remaining at your original school.</p>
<p>Agree with above. My personal philosophy about transferring has been that you shouldn’t transfer because you’ll be happier at another school, you should transfer because your dissatisfaction with your current school is so great that it is prohibiting you from doing well.</p>
<p>^Can I quote you ;)? That’s a perfect comment for so many on the Transfer Student forum!</p>
<p>Sure! Glad to hear it actually applies. I never thought about transferring and only personally know a few people who did but it just seems so difficult that it kind of seems like supreme dissatisfaction is the only thing that justifies it.</p>
<p>While there are many CC and NT transfers, at this time of year in particular, there are a lot of entering fr who are anxious and already planning to ‘transfer up’ to a school that they weren’t admitted to this year.</p>
<p>It’s too bad, because you only have one fr year in your life, and going into it with the idea of transferring has to have an impact on your experience.</p>