<p>I'm pre med at Georgetown now, and have been here for all of a month, but I absolutely hate it. Its clear to me now that I obviously didn't do enough research about colleges before I applied, and I only applied to name-brand schools, regardless of how they could benefit me as a pre-med student.</p>
<p>I was thinking about transferring. I have all A's thus far, so I figured that it could be a potentially good idea. I'm looking at Duke, Brown, Columbia, Penn, and MIT. However, would the act of transferring alone hurt med school chances? Thanks for any and all input!</p>
<p>I don't think it will hurt you, as long as your grades at Georgetown are good. Medical schools look at any college course you have ever taken.</p>
<p>It's pretty common to transfer. Just as long as it doesn't look like you transfered due to academic difficulty, I don't think it will have any effect at all.</p>
<p>Transferring is less than ideal - usually. The disruption, the re-adjustment period, and so on can prevent even the most adaptive individuals from re-starting or beginning from scratch all the things pre-meds need to do (research, campus/community involvement, clinical experience, building relationships with professors, etc). And if you know well in advance you're going to transfer, then you may be reluctant to start activities that you know you're going to quit in 8 months time.</p>
<p>However, if you really are miserable at your school, to the point where your production is compromised and you won't get the grades or involvement you believe you can in a better suited environment...then by all means transfer. To great extent your future depends on it.</p>
<p>The thing I worry about from your post...you claim that last year you only cared about name brand schools and that was a problem, yet all the schools you are interested in transferring to are name brand schools. Really do your research this time and open it up to all different types of schools. It's that much more important that you end up in the RIGHT place the second time around.</p>
<p>Misery is very rarely related to your school, even if it seems to be. You might well be the exception, but that's impossible for us to say. More likely, it's the adjustment to college generally -- and that's very common in the first month. I bet it'll just take time.</p>