Transfering?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>Do medical schools see it as a negative thing to transfer from one school to another.</p>

<p>Like I'm planning on going to University of Wisconsin Milwuakee or Lacrosse, and then tranferring to UW Madison for my sophmore year.</p>

<p>Would this look bad when applying?</p>

<p>My reasoning would be that i wanted to go to a university away from home to just get away for a year and see things and experience something different. But then after a year or so of that i wanted to move back home and be closer to my family and to where i grew up and to a place that is much more stable for me.</p>

<p>Also If i did do this i would be transfering to a better school, and i would pretty much be declaring my major at Madison, and that is where the majority of my college schooling would take place.</p>

<p>I'm not even sure if I'm going to do this anyways, it's more of a hypothetical, and I'm just curious. Right now I'm a senior in highschool about to start applying to colleges.</p>

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<p>I don't think it would make a huge difference as long as you do well at both schools, though I do subscribe more than most to the idea that going to a better school helps you get into med school more easily.</p>

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<p>I recently talked with an old med school friend of Husband who is now on ad com for a medical school and asked him this same question. He said that many, many of their applicants and acceptances have transfered schools. Some transfer because first school was not where they were happy, some for financial reasons, some for academic reasons (such as majors)---as long as you can explain transfer in interview and have a good gpa--it has no bearing on admission.</p>