what would you do?

[dsherida]

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I go to a private university currently. However I am considering transferring to a different college for my senior year. I have some friends at this other college that I really enjoy hanging out with. If I transfer though, I would loose out on some research that I currently do at a medical school hospital. I think that the doctors I would work with would write me awesome LOR's no matter what I do. I really would be a lot happier at the other school, but am not sure if it is worth it medical school wise. I just am considering that this will be my last year of college and time where I will be able to be free before the large committment of med school. Just thought, I would ask some opinions. Thanks 😕

 

[md689]

If you are truly going to be happier elsewhere, that probably also means you will find new opportunities for yourself and will have a coherent explanation for why you chose to relocate for your last year. These are both requisites to the move being justifiable and positive in the eyes of a medical school. (If, on the other hand, the plan is to be lethargic and fumble through senior year stoned and high ... well, that may be a less acceptable motivation which may become obvious to medschools.)

Where, specifically, you go from and to probably doesn't matter as much, so long as there really aren't other issues pertaining to academic performance, etc., influencing the decision, and so long as your general level of academic performance and involvement don't betray a different story than you would choose to in essays and interviews.

Your grades, MCAT, letters of recommendation (see my recent post!), and activities matter immensely in the admission process. Go where you can achieve maximally in all of these respects, if getting into school is your top priority.

Good luck with your decision.

 

[xaelia]

I wasn't aware it was possible to transfer that late in your academic career....

If I were on an admissions committee, and I read over an application that had a transfer for senior year, it would engender some questions as a possible red flag of sorts. I think you'd have to be comfortable that the rest of your application would inspire enough confidence that they wouldn't look very closely at it....

 

[Bonds756]

I was thinking along the same lines as xaelia. I would first check and see if you can even transfer at all since many schools do not accept applications after your sophomore year (incoming junior).