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Hey everyone, first time I'm posting here.
Here's the deal, I go to the Univ of South Florida (state school in tampa) and just finished my 2nd year, im a chem major with a 3.8, done with orgo and the other lower level classes, have done research on a publication, good leadership with involvment with SG Senate,
I'm thinking about transferring to Johns Hopkins for the Fall for my last 2 years, I got accepted and now have until end of June to decide,
My questions are:
Will I be at a disadvantage considering my Intro classes were at USF instead of Hopkins so my background with the students I'm competing with will be horrible and make it much too hard for me?
Do you know of people that transferred to JHU and how they fared?
How much harder am I going to have to study and work compared to USF (I guess I am going to have to train myself to study on Saturdays...)
I would be applying to med school right before my senior year so I would be applying to med school with 2 years at USF and 1 year at JHU with one year remaining at JHU, how much would JHU weigh in on my application...Say for example, I get a 3.8 at USF for 2 years and a 3.2 at JHU for 1 year for like a 3.6 overall, would it hurt me THAT much?
Additionally, would I need to get as involved there as at USF (I do senate, am treasurer for the whole school, research for 1.5 years, i teach SAT for Kaplan), overall my involvment at USF is good, but would the ADCOMs maybe consider what I would be doing at JHU (prolly nothing since id have to study) or would they take what I did at USF and say it is enough
and last but not least, is it really that cut throat up there in the upper level classes, im looking at takin p-chem my 1st semester there and other chem classes, i really still want to graduate in 4 years...
any feedback would be great, this forum is awesome, i always surf it, but finally im posting something!!!
thanks everyone,
Bilal
Here's the deal, I go to the Univ of South Florida (state school in tampa) and just finished my 2nd year, im a chem major with a 3.8, done with orgo and the other lower level classes, have done research on a publication, good leadership with involvment with SG Senate,
I'm thinking about transferring to Johns Hopkins for the Fall for my last 2 years, I got accepted and now have until end of June to decide,
My questions are:
Will I be at a disadvantage considering my Intro classes were at USF instead of Hopkins so my background with the students I'm competing with will be horrible and make it much too hard for me?
Do you know of people that transferred to JHU and how they fared?
How much harder am I going to have to study and work compared to USF (I guess I am going to have to train myself to study on Saturdays...)
I would be applying to med school right before my senior year so I would be applying to med school with 2 years at USF and 1 year at JHU with one year remaining at JHU, how much would JHU weigh in on my application...Say for example, I get a 3.8 at USF for 2 years and a 3.2 at JHU for 1 year for like a 3.6 overall, would it hurt me THAT much?
Additionally, would I need to get as involved there as at USF (I do senate, am treasurer for the whole school, research for 1.5 years, i teach SAT for Kaplan), overall my involvment at USF is good, but would the ADCOMs maybe consider what I would be doing at JHU (prolly nothing since id have to study) or would they take what I did at USF and say it is enough
and last but not least, is it really that cut throat up there in the upper level classes, im looking at takin p-chem my 1st semester there and other chem classes, i really still want to graduate in 4 years...
any feedback would be great, this forum is awesome, i always surf it, but finally im posting something!!!
thanks everyone,
Bilal