Transfers

[vinoyp]

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Hi,

I have heard how difficult it is to transfer into another medical school. Yet, it is possible and some schools accept more transfer students than others.

I was wondering if anyone knew of schools that accepted transfers in decent numbers, and what the school's policy on transfers is (ie admission only into the third year).

As for me, I have no extraordinary reason to transfer, other than my school is one of the most expensive in the country. I cannot transfer into one of my state schools (California), but I am hoping I can transfer into a cheaper private school after next year.

Thank you,

--Vinoy

 

[BUmiken12]

Do California schools not allow transfer students?

 

[vinoyp]

UCLA and UCSF have it on their site that transfers into the school are not allowed. I could not find any information on transfers from Davis, UCSD, and Irvine, so maybe they do... I'd sure be happy if they did.

--Vinoy

 

[vinoyp]

Hi,

I was doing some searching and came upon the following site from AAMC:

http://services.aamc.org/tsp_report...=2c1b67a-128c5dbc-d088-4d18-8a50-a9631445f735

You can search it for more info on schools accepting transfers and their policies.

Hope this helps others. Please continue to reply if you have any additional information.

Thank you,

--Vinoy

 

[littlelady]

It seems that all the private med schools are pretty expensive and that only going to your state school would make that much of a financial difference. The AAMC website will not post the transfer openings for next year until about Jan 2004. The number of openings at different schools varies greatly from year to year. One year a school might have 3 the next 0. And they will not know until next Jan. But you can call up the schools you might be interested just to ask about their transfer policy if you can not find it on the school's website.

 

[Joe Joe on da Radio]

wow, USC has 18 openings for this year and 10 for next year! what's going on there?!

 

[vigils]

I'll tell you what's going on, its damn expensive and in a crapy location. ....


Med schools do offer more transfer positions when they increase their class size though. Say they have 100 positions and they increase the incoming class to 105, they may accept 5 students into the 3rd year for a couple years, plus the amount of students that quit or are taking leaves of absence.