Transfers?

[soxbox]

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So I have a friend who is starting vet school this fall at Ross... for various reasons, a major one being medical, really would like to transfer after her first year. I was wondering if you guys know of schools that DEFINITELY take transfer students... We spent some time looking online, and some schools are very clear on their websites, and others we can't seem to find a mention about it. Obviously even if a school accepts transfers, you are at the mercy of some students dropping out... and then the competition for those limited open spots... but to at least have a list of possiblilities is a start!

I know that Tufts, NC State, Georgia, and Ohio accept transfers.

I know that Western, Penn, UC Davis, and Cornell do NOT accept transfers.

If you do know transfer accepters, do you also know what they require? Some it seems you need to meet that schools prereqs and others seem to think if you got in somewhere and completed your first year, they will waive their prereq requirements...

Thanks for any info provided 🙂

 

[chris03333]

So I have a friend who is starting vet school this fall at Ross... for various reasons, a major one being medical, really would like to transfer after her first year. I was wondering if you guys know of schools that DEFINITELY take transfer students... We spent some time looking online, and some schools are very clear on their websites, and others we can't seem to find a mention about it. Obviously even if a school accepts transfers, you are at the mercy of some students dropping out... and then the competition for those limited open spots... but to at least have a list of possiblilities is a start!

I know that Tufts, NC State, Georgia, and Ohio accept transfers.

I know that Western, Penn, UC Davis, and Cornell do NOT accept transfers.

If you do know transfer accepters, do you also know what they require? Some it seems you need to meet that schools prereqs and others seem to think if you got in somewhere and completed your first year, they will waive their prereq requirements...

Thanks for any info provided 🙂

K State is her most likely option. Since they get their money by how many students they have, when someone drops out (or down to the next year) they frequently take transfers from Ross and St. Georges.

 

[silverelf]

Tufts takes transfers...but you have to repeat the first year so its a total waste of money to be at Ross if you want to go to Tufts

 

[pressmom]

I believe CSU, UF, UGA, Illinois, Iowa State, KSU, LSU, Michigan State, UMN, Miss State, Missouri, NCSU, Ohio State, OK State, Oregon State, U Penn, Purdue, UTK, Texas A&M, Tufts, WSU, and Wisconsin all accept transfers with various stipulations. These stipulations are listed in the Veterinary Medical School Admissions Requirements book by Purdue Press. If there are any schools in particular your friend is interested in, I may be able to get further info, but a lot of the requirements are pretty wordy, so I don't want to type them all out here. Once again, as I said in another thread...ORDER THE BOOK. http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/Books Pages/Book Descriptions/VetrinaryMedSchool2004.asp

 

[ckgilabert]

my friend went to a western info session and there was a girl from ross that had been planning on transferring. They told her that she would need to re-do the first year. double check on western if you can. 🙂 good luck to your friend!

 

[pressmom]

I guess I should correct my previous post and say that the title of the chapter I drew these names from is "Policies on Advanced Standing." So it is schools that have some way to give advanced standing to transfer students.

 

[RosieMoll3]

I'm pretty sure that at the CSU info session a few months ago they said they weren't taking transfers anymore.

 

[chris03333]

my friend went to a western info session and there was a girl from ross that had been planning on transferring. They told her that she would need to re-do the first year. double check on western if you can. 🙂 good luck to your friend!

You have to apply as a new applicant. Western does not do transfer students, so she will be starting in 1st year (as you also said).

 

[HopefulUGACVM]

UGAs transfer policy...

http://www.vet.uga.edu/admissions/Forms/Transfer Policy.pdf

found it here...
http://www.vet.uga.edu/admissions/requirements/14.php

 

[kate_g]

I believe CSU, UF, UGA, Illinois, Iowa State, KSU, LSU, Michigan State, UMN, Miss State, Missouri, NCSU, Ohio State, OK State, Oregon State, U Penn, Purdue, UTK, Texas A&M, Tufts, WSU, and Wisconsin all accept transfers with various stipulations.

17) Does PENN accept transfer students?
No.

Somebody did say something during my tour there about occasionally letting someone essentially do all their clinical rotations at Penn as an externship (e.g. your spouse needs to move to PA for a job, and you're in vet school somewhere far away, so you come to Penn for your last year). You still get a degree from your original school, so they have to be willing to count whatever you do at Penn as satisfying their own requirements.

But if I'm not mistaken, Ross students have to do their clinical rotations in partnership with a US school anyway, so Penn couldn't get your friend back to the US any faster.

 

[jfitzpatri8]

I only know of one person who was able to transfer, and it was due to a spouse in the military. I have been told that she wouldn't have even been able to do that if the curricula at the two schools weren't so close. (from MSU to CSU).

Just not a good plan. Gaming the system to get into a profession just looks bad. In my "Never to be Humble Opinion"

Jenn

 

[kate_g]

Gaming the system to get into a profession just looks bad.

soxbox, Jenn seems to be taking the pessimistic interpretation - that your friend is unsatisfied with "only" getting into Ross, and would rather be at a US school, and so is concocting reasons to transfer and get into a US school through the back door.

While this might not actually be true (you cite medical issues, and certainly in that case I'd rather be in the US with insurance than on a Caribbean island that I've heard described as pretty third-world), it will probably be the assumption that an awful lot of other people make.

If your friend is serious about wanting to be in the US, and if the medical issues are indeed her main reason (but, crucially, not so huge as to make her a poor candidate for vet school), then maybe it would be better to defer or decline her acceptance to Ross for this year, get a job in whatever state gives her the best advantage, and apply again this cycle. She'll have to check "yes" to "were you previously accepted" but I think she could make a compelling argument in the "extra explanation" section about how she respects the Ross vet school and would have been happy to have a Ross degree, but was uncomfortable with the access to medical care, concerned about being uninsured, etc...

Since most transfer-accepting schools seem to require you to repeat the first year, she wouldn't be losing any time. And she'd be making instead of losing money. And to me, choosing to decline Ross and apply all over again suggests more commitment to staying in the US (and more truth to the importance of the medical issues) than actually starting at Ross and then trying to transfer.

 

[soxbox]

Thanks for everyone's input 🙂

She has gone back and forth with declining Ross and reapplying in the US, but it seems as if she is set about getting started this year. What really sucks is even if she wanted to take Ross's not so great insurance, they will not accept her due to a pre-existing condition. So for this next year she will be OK because she is able to keep COBRA for the next 18 months or so from our current employer (though she does have to fly to Puerto Rico for medical care)... She is going to contact all of those schools and see about transfering...

Ok, well again, thanks for everyone's advice and information!

 

[kate_g]

it seems as if she is set about getting started this year.

That's unfortunate, because

(though she does have to fly to Puerto Rico for medical care)

😱😱
...And COBRA isn't cheap to begin with, I don't think.

So she's going to pay a *lot* of money to get started this year, and possibly end up having no choice but to repeat the year after transferring anyway...

 

[CookieBear]

I'm only going to chime in and agree with Kate:

Personal health and access to good medical care - especially with a pre-existing - has got to be a primary thought. It's hard to do well in school, or practice medicine, or 'do life' if the medical stuff is distracting and difficult to deal with.

Between the expense and hassle of flying to PR for medical stuff... that's alot to handle.

I understand the underlying reason, though. I think all of us can relate to the burning desire to be a veterinarian and achieve that goal.

Regardless of her ultimate decision, I do wish her the best. I hope it all works out just fine!

 

[pressmom]

I can understand where your friend is coming from. One of the first things my family did when I got into schools was look at the insurance plan and even then some of the US ones had really bad insurance programs. I couldn't imagine going to the Caribbean. Anyway, I think she'd be better off trying one more cycle and doing things to improve her chances here in the US. But that's just my opinion. (After have 11 major surgeries following a car accident...)