The transferring effect

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Columbia09

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So My freshman year I was at the University of Scranton but I had to transfer for financial reasons. Now I'm at a Penn State branch campus but next fall because of my major, I will be attending U-Park. So all in all I was at 3 different campuses. What effect will this have on my application? I know the negatives that can come from it is weaker letters of evaluation, weaker ECs, etc. But is it really that big of a deal for M.D/D.O school?
 
I transferred schools between my freshman and sophomore year and I don't believe it had a bad impact. I think my MCAT score had more of a negative effect than my transfer 🙂
 
highly doubtful. people transfer from a community college to a 4-year university all the time.
 
I went to a total of four different schools. I'm a nontraditional student so it was over a period of 12 years but it never came up in any interviews, can't imagine it would be an issue.

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Poliscidoc said:
2 community colleges (summer credit)
3 undergrads
1 grad
1 undergrad for post bac

Accepted I just got a "why the hell do you have 7 transcripts as a question"


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I wasn't a transfer, but I had 1 transcript while doing dual credit in HS, 1 UG, 1 Grad, and took classes at my employer campus. Getting so many transcripts was a pain, and I think that will have the biggest impact on your app (ie, not much).
 
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