Odd quitting school question, help??

[MyBeauTulane]

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to start off, this is for my friend, not me. also, i am not being a "troll" here, i am genuinely looking for help for her. does anyone have any experience with this situation:

Ok, so, my friend is in DO school but hates it and is getting a ton of getting federal loans. How would it work if she quit and went to MD school? Would she have to start paying on those loans NOW or could they be added onto from the MD school assuming the total balance stays below the 180something maximum and then start paying back like she normally would have?

Also along those lines, she has no desire to transfer into a ms2 or ms3 position, but to just completely start over even though she would be leaving the DO school at the end of her ms2 year. She retook the mcat and went from a 24 to a 33 and has a 3.4 gpa. Would the MD school know she went to a DO school before? Is she required to say? would it matter if she said? i think she said she is about average in the class, grade wise.

finally how would it affect the DO school? is it really bad for that school or just someone they dont get an extra 2 yrs of money from??

we appreciate the help.

 

[Apparition]

I believe your friend will have to reveal in AMCAS that she was enrolled in med school previously. This may be a red flag in the process unless she has some legit reason for not wanting to be a DO. I wouldn't really worry about the school. Two years of tuition is probably nothing to them. Plusl, they may accept a transfer.

 

[MyBeauTulane]

I believe your friend will have to reveal in AMCAS that she was enrolled in med school previously. This may be a red flag in the process unless she has some legit reason for not wanting to be a DO. I wouldn't really worry about the school. Two years of tuition is probably nothing to them. Plusl, they may accept a transfer.

AMCAS will care about the DO school? I guess she was hoping that since there is the aacomas and the amcas separately, that there would not be communication between the two in applying.

no that is one of the things. she just doesnt want to go to the DO school anymore badly enough that she would be will to start completely over. just a personal choice, no good solid extenuating circumstance. a transfer would be great, but not needed.

 

[Hindiana_Jones]

Can't she transfer from DO to MD?

 

[MyBeauTulane]

she said she doesnt really have a good reason, just personally wanted to quit the DO school and go to a MD school, so most likely the MD schools wont like that as a good enough reason. i dont really know how they would react though.

 

[Law2Doc]

to start off, this is for my friend, not me. also, i am not being a "troll" here, i am genuinely looking for help for her. does anyone have any experience with this situation:

Ok, so, my friend is in DO school but hates it and is getting a ton of getting federal loans. How would it work if she quit and went to MD school? Would she have to start paying on those loans NOW or could they be added onto from the MD school assuming the total balance stays below the 180something maximum and then start paying back like she normally would have?

Also along those lines, she has no desire to transfer into a ms2 or ms3 position, but to just completely start over even though she would be leaving the DO school at the end of her ms2 year. She retook the mcat and went from a 24 to a 33 and has a 3.4 gpa. Would the MD school know she went to a DO school before? Is she required to say? would it matter if she said? i think she said she is about average in the class, grade wise.

finally how would it affect the DO school? is it really bad for that school or just someone they dont get an extra 2 yrs of money from??

we appreciate the help.

In AMCAS you must indicate every school you attended and provide transcripts. Thus there is no way of hiding the DO school short of committing fraud, which will not help her admissions chances. Desiring different letters on her degree, and her unhappiness in her current program raises questions as to her committment to being a physician, so she had better have some legit reason for wanting to change. DO and MD programs cover largely the same courses, so unhappiness in one is a big indicator of likely being unhappy in another. I suspect a lot of med schools wouldn't want to touch her. As for loans, I'm sure that so long as she has a continous unbroken period of graduate education, she will be able to continue deferring her loans, I would think.

 

[MyBeauTulane]

yea, that makes sense really. she said that she was upset that some of the surgical rotations wouldnt work with her, and they had specifically listed because she was a DO student. i think it started there with her. is that a bad reason to list if she reapplied??

 

[Law2Doc]

yea, that makes sense really. she said that she was upset that some of the surgical rotations wouldnt work with her, and they had specifically listed because she was a DO student. i think it started there with her. is that a bad reason to list if she reapplied??

I don't see it swaying anybody.

 

[MyBeauTulane]

i guess that is what she is worried about too.

 

[bwells46]

yea, that makes sense really. she said that she was upset that some of the surgical rotations wouldnt work with her, and they had specifically listed because she was a DO student. i think it started there with her. is that a bad reason to list if she reapplied??

I don't see allopathic schools being very sympathetic to this.

 

[teedub]

hey i'm gonna add my own little question to this. i quit physical therapy school midway (it's a three year doctoral program where i'm at) because, during clinicals, the limitations (as far as what treatments i could offer my patients) were just too damn evident. i quit with the blessing of the dept chairs and a couple more top faculty (who all wrote me LOR's for med school...plus i had straight A's all the way through) and applied to an amcas school. i explained my reasons for quitting in my PS, my supplemental app, and in the interview, but they just kept asking about it over and over again like they couldn't get over it. what's everybodys' take on adcoms letting that slide??

 

[Med01]

hey i'm gonna add my own little question to this. i quit physical therapy school midway (it's a three year doctoral program where i'm at) because, during clinicals, the limitations (as far as what treatments i could offer my patients) were just too damn evident. i quit with the blessing of the dept chairs and a couple more top faculty (who all wrote me LOR's for med school...plus i had straight A's all the way through) and applied to an amcas school. i explained my reasons for quitting in my PS, my supplemental app, and in the interview, but they just kept asking about it over and over again like they couldn't get over it. what's everybodys' take on adcoms letting that slide??

Hmmm, I've heard there are people with nursing backgrounds applying to med schools, because there was a limit to what they could do. It sounds like you as well as the DO person who couldn't do surgery rotations has the same limitations issue... perhaps nurses who applied could give you more insight?

 

[beanbean]

I don't think your friend would have much of a chance getting into a US MD school. If someone has a good reason for wishing to switch schools (family, spouse location, etc) there are transfer spots available. They are not common, but are out there for students with vaild reasons for wishing to tx.

I can't understand why someone would leave DO school and retake the first two years of material just to switch the initials to MD. Why was she having so much trouble finding a surgery rotation? DO students do surgery rotations just like MD students. If she is more comfortable with the allopathic side of medicine, she can do an allopathic residency instead of a DO residency.