Transfer Regret Help

[medschoolhopeful99]

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Hey guys, I need some honest and blunt advice. Over the summer I was accepted to Tufts University, and despite a lot of pushback from my friends (and here) about transferring since I was really happy at the University of Miami, I decided to go through with it.
There were a few reasons for this which I will list:
1.) Tufts is my father's alma mater, and the truth was before this summer I wasn't 100% committed to Medicine when I decided to transfer. If Medicine failed, I wanted to go into International Relations and the UN, my dad's field, and Tufts is amongst the best universities for that.
2.) Although I was very happy at UM, an incident happened at the end of the Spring semester with respect to a program I had worked really hard to get invited to the Medical Scholars Program. Invitation to that program is reserved for people with a 3.8 GPA and above, and once invited you just have to send 3 rec letters and essays and there's a 50% chance for acceptance once those go in. at 11:00 pm the night before one of my professors sent me a text message saying she will not be sending the rec letter because she "forgot to write it" and I had not reminded her since when I asked her for it a month and a half prior. I guess it was my fault, but I was really upset and my application was canceled. Two days after this, Tufts accepted me so obviously I was more inclined to accept their offer.
3.) Some social issues happened, I got into a fight with a good friend of mine and I guess all these combinations of factors made me just go ahead with it.

Now through to the day I actually got to Tufts, I was very uncertain about the decision. I was in the Honors Foote Fellow program at Miami, and they said to me that if for any reason I did not like Tufts I could come back with my honors status and the perks that come with it. At the end of my first semester at Tufts, I have realized a few things: Medicine is the ONLY field I want, and I absolutely do not want IR. There are no backup plans, I have shadowed, I have taken relevant coursework and my mind is made up here. The second thing is I did not really make any friends, and this isn't Tufts' fault per say--it's mine. But I spend so much time studying that it's tough to meet people for me and I have not really got on with people here. I realized also that you only get college once and being unhappy all throughout would really suck, and I'm going to keep on missing my life in Miami. That's not to say I haven't liked Tufts at all. It is without a doubt that every class (except Art History) was just wildly more interesting and better taught than anything I took in Miami. I actually enjoyed going to class and studying and learned a lot especially in Modern South Asia. So it's not ALL bad at the same time either. I also really enjoyed Orgo here and the professor was absolutely fantastic (unlike the prof who teaches it in Miami lol)

Obviously, when I tell people this they say "then just go back!" but it's not so simple. I have a few questions if I did decide to go back:
1.) Would Medical Schools frown upon transferring somewhere then transferring back? If it will hurt my chances for Medical School I will not go back, I'll suck it up and stay at Tufts.

2.) At Tufts, Organic Chemistry is taught weirdly. We are not supposed to take Organic Chemistry II and skip straight to Biochem because in Orgo 1 we cover units like Alcohols and Phenols (Klein Chapter 12), Aldehydes and Ketones (Klein Chapter 19), Carboxylic Acids and their Derivatives (Klein Chapter 20), Alpha Carbon Chemistry: Enols and Enolates (Klein Chapter 21) and Amines (Klein Chapter 22) which are traditionally Orgo 2 units at UM. Basically Orgo at Tufts is supposed to reflect the material necessary for the MCAT/Biochemistry and reflect the modernizing trend by Medical Schools to do away with Orgo 2 and allow applicants to skip to Biochemistry. The issue, however, is we skip some chapters from Miami Orgo 1, namely Klein Chapters 9 and 10. So my worry here with this is that if I go back to Miami and don't take Orgo 2, will Medical Schools frown upon that? Taking Orgo 2 at Miami would be tough for me because I'm missing those two chapters from Orgo 1. Is Orgo 2 really required anymore? The pre-med advisor at Tufts assured me applicants have no problems with their sequence, but I'm not sure if that's just a Tufts specific thing or reflect a broader trend that Med Schools don't really need Orgo 2 anymore (given its not on the MCAT).

At the end of my finals week these are the grades I should have (between 3.75-3.85 GPA so I'm not thinking about leaving Tufts because I thought it was too hard or anything):
Organic Chemistry I - A+/A
Epidemiology - A
Art History - A-
Modern South Asia: B+/A-

Sorry, this is a long post, but I really want some blunt advice. Feel free to tell me how it is. If you think it's better for my application to stay at Tufts, then it's okay I will do that. My science GPA is 3.88 and I have just worked so hard until this point to throw it all away because of a stupid transfer decision I made. It's my fault for making this decision, and I will take responsibility for it. I'm not going to blame Tufts for this. It's on me that I wasn't able to make myself happy here, but now I just want to figure out the best route forward. My dad supports me either which way as long as it won't hurt my future. And yes, in general, I do really dislike my life there and would say although I am doing well, I am pretty unhappy.

Pre-Med classes completed: Science GPA: 3.88
Gen Bio I - A
Gen Bio I Lab - A
Gen Bio II - A+
Gen Bio II Lab - A
Gen Chem I - A+
Gen Chem I Lab - B
Gen Chem 2 - A-
Gen Chem 2 Lab - B
Statistics - A
Organic Chemistry I - A

 

[JoaoMoutinho]

1) Sorry that I seem to have missed it, but are you just wanting us to tell you whether to go back to Miami or not?

2) ochem shouldn't make a huge difference irrespective of where you take it. I'm not an adcom but I promise you that they are not sitting there comparing which chapters of XYZ textbooks your UG organic chemistry class covered

3) go where you can be happy and succeed. If you can save money at one institution over the other, I would keep that in mind as well. Loans add up. If you can make friends and Boston and think you can be happy and succeed in Boston, then do that. If you really think it's impossible for you to do well in Boston personally as well as academically (because you as a person are more important than your application, period), then maybe you should consider going back to Miami.

Whether you go to Tufts or Miami won't make or break your application in itself. People get into great med schools from Harvard, Tufts, Miami, and Arkansas State (not hating, just picked a random state school that isn't a traditional academic powerhouse). What is far more important is that you learn what you need to learn, maintain a good GPA, do well on the MCAT, and do all the other premed stuff. You should be able to do it without any major roadblocks at either school. It's up to you to decide where you think you can succeed and be happy.