Transfer Student

[puppytiff]

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Hi,
I'm a freshmen from a not well known but some how okay state school(Georgia Institute of Technology). I major in ChemE and in a pre-med track. I got good GPA in the first semester (4.0). So I am thinking about transferring into an Ivy school or MIT so it may increase my chance of getting into medical school. My question is that does an ivy undergraduate school helps me get into medical school? And any advice for transferring into ivy?
Thanks!

 

[RomanTaylor]

It's only your first semester, and engineering doesn't becoming a soul-sucking endevour until late into your sophomore year. Wait until Diff Eq to assess if you are so brilliant you need an Ivy League school to sustain you.

But really, it's been my observation that Ivy League is a bit overkill. A school with a premedical adviser and offers all of the courses you need will suffice.

By the by, it was REALLY hard to take this post seriously, lol. OOooboy.

 

[Neuronette]

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[Stumpyman]

What?? I don't even....


Georgia Tech is a great school, and their engineering department is very prestigious. Also, you can't just up and transfer to an Ivy based on 1 semester (unless your stats and ECs have been stellar, but even then, most Ivies aren't very transfer-friendly, except for UPenn and Cornell).

 

[IncognitoGuy]

Bottom line: school prestige isn't necessarily going to help you if your GPA suffers due to a different (read: more competitive/deflating) environment. If you can keep up a stellar GPA where you are now and get everything else in line (ECs, MCAT, LORs), you will have be a competitive applicant no matter what.

Don't get sucked into the Ivy mania because in terms of medical school admissions, it's not an instant leg up. There are tons of people on SDN from state schools who go on to have incredibly successful application cycles because they played their cards right.

 

[mzarrowsmith]

Don't rule out the Blue Ivy League:

 

[r1d1]

MIT is the only engineering school worth attending. 😉

 

[dechristine]

I wouldn't worry too much about your university not being well known — I live up in the Northeast and several of my friends interested in engineering applied to Georgia Tech because it's a good engineering school.