Transfer Advice Please!!

[deleted621740]

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Hi all,

I would love some opinions on whether or not I should transfer as I have been strongly debating it. In short, I spent one year at a cc playing sports (I did not take any medical school pre-req courses at the cc level b/c I didn't want adcoms to look down on it; i.e, general biology, general chemistry, etc.) and transferred to a smaller LAC in my home state. I have loved it here so far and I have done extremely well over the past year attaining A's in all of my classes (I am no longer playing sports) and thus maintaining a 4.0 sGPA. I have great extracurriculars so far and I am currently doing research at the NIH, but Due to my religious affiliations and current living situation, I am considering either transferring to one of my large state Universities or BYU in provo UT. My primary concern is that adcoms may look down upon a cc-LAC-large school transfer student. Has anyone been in a similar situation? Any suggestions? Thank you!

 

[Banco]

I don't know if they would look down on it, but they will ask about/wonder. I don't know if "religious affiliation" is a great enough reason, but maybe it is. Living situation issues may be a better reason.

Though I want to say, if you are doing awesome in your classes, and clearly have great activities, why stop a good thing?

 

[ndafife]

I don't know if they would look down on it, but they will ask about/wonder. I don't know if "religious affiliation" is a great enough reason, but maybe it is. Living situation issues may be a better reason.

Though I want to say, if you are doing awesome in your classes, and clearly have great activities, why stop a good thing?

Normally I would agree with you, but a Mormon transferring to BYU wouldn't raise any questions.

 

[deleted480308]

you are overthinking this OP.....just get good grades wherever you go