Which US schools accept foreign tranfers?

[abbeydesert]

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I know that in any given year, only about 70 or so students manage to transfer into 2nd or 3rd year of a US school...but most of the schools I've looked at flat-out prohibit transfers from foreign schools. Any insight into which ones have accepted foreign transfers in recent years? Thanks!

 

[PB]

I have the exact same question. Also, do the schools that do accept foreign transfers prefer a particular foreign school over another? Does anyone know how Israeli and Mexican transfers (U.S. citizens at these schools) do in transferring into a U.S. school for the 2nd/3rd year? Any info. would be very helpful.
Thanks!

 

[PB]

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[Detroit Rock City]

Transferring to a US schoolo is pretty tough. I only know of 4 schools that allow it. SUNY @ Syracuse will accept foreign transfers, but only from SGU, Ross and the israeli schools. GW will take any transfer qualified and wealthy enough ( Around $40G a year) NEOCOM will take foreign transfers. Univ of Miami in Fla will aslo but only for florida state residents

 

[prefontaine]

ECU has accepted transfers from AUC. Prefer residents from eastern NC.

BU has accepted transfers from Royal College in Dublin.

Wayne State has accepted MI residents transferring from the Carib.

Robert Wood Johnson has accepted NJ residents transferring from the Carib.



[This message has been edited by prefontaine (edited 04-20-2000).]

 

[RAM#48]

I know a third year at ECU who transferred in from a Caribbean school. However, it is not limited to eastern NC residents, just NC residents, since he is from Asheville (in the west, mountains).

 

[Detroit Rock City]

Prefontaine,
What do you mean residents? They are residents in a foriegn country and transfer to a us residency? Or they are IMG's who get residency spots there?

 

[prefontaine]

Neither.

Residents of the state, ie have a state drivers license, own property there, pay taxes there, lived in the state X # of years, etc.

That is, they meet the criteria to be considered legal residents of the state, not to be confused with being in a residency, ie being a house officer.

 

[dwstranger]

In response to prefontaine's post -- and not to be a downer or anything, but I have recently reviewed the list of school's in K. Iserson's "Get into Medical School," and found a lot of mistakes (or changes in school policy?). I e-mailed or otherwise checked websites for each school which it was reported accepted foreign transfers, and found very few will admit to doing so. The info I post here comes from those sites, or responses to my e-mails. I admit that there are always exceptions - like the person who blows the lid off of Step I, for example.

>ECU has accepted transfers from AUC. Prefer residents from eastern NC.
"strong preference to NC residents" as prefontaine said...

>BU has accepted transfers from Royal College in Dublin.
considered only if personal relationship with student or staff at BU exists

>Wayne State has accepted MI residents transferring from the Carib.
when contacted, they said only LCME transfers - maybe the person had good scores and/or was a state resident

>Robert Wood Johnson has accepted NJ residents transferring from the Carib.
couldn't find transfer info on website, and no e-mail address listed there

In Puerto Rico, Caribe (http://uccaribe.edu) and Ponce (http://psm.edu) both accept transfers into 2d or 3d yr; in Spanish

GWU and Georgetown supposedly accept into 2d or 3d year, but I've e-mailed them twice to confirm with no response.

Med Coll of GA transfers into 2d or 3d yr; prefer state residents

NYMC, where there's a 5th Pathway program (for schools in Mexico mostly) accepts into 3d yr

SUNY-Buffalo when space permits, appl. considered only if documented evidence of hardship exists for the student to continue at the school in which he/she is currently enrolled

Southern IL - into 2d yr

UMDNJ- NJ Med (http://www.umdnj.edu/njmsweb/) currently not accepting transfers; if this changes, current policy is LCME only

There are a bunch of other schools who said "prefer state residents"
S. AL
CO (as evidenced by the fact that in-state tuition is $12,500 and out-of-state is $53,000)
U if IL
IN
U Miami (*only* FL res.)
U of NM
N.E. Ohio
SUNY-Syracuse
U of WI

Maybe this helps (?)

 

[Detroit Rock City]

Pre-
Thanks for clearing it up.
🙂
DRC

 

[RAM#48]

ECU ONLY accepts NC residents as transfers (and regular admissions as well)

 

[Carbon Klein]

I was a student at St George's and one of the top students at that. I am also a Californian resident and a US Citizen, but despite granting interviews to me in the past via AMCAS, at this point, many US schools will not even send me transfer applications because I am from a foreign school.

I was told from my dean at Barry U that Miami takes tons of students from St George. He forgot to mention that you must be a Florida resident to even be considered by U of M.

Many schools that take transfers from US schools will not take transfers from foreign schools. Those who took transfers from foreign schools in the past no longer take transfers now.

If you are not at a foreign school right now, then go AMCAS again. If you are at a foreign school now, try and transfer but don't get your hopes up (3.8 GPA, honors, extracurric, stellar letters and 90th percentile Step One scores will not help if their policy is no foreign transfers). Or bite the bullet and drop out of your foreign school and reapply via AMCAS (that's what I did). But you probably don't need to do that unless you're interested in a highly competitive subspecialty. Foreign schools get some good placements in Internal Med and other primary care fields.

 

[PB]

Carbon Klein,
so, in what year did you stop attending St. George's? Have you actually gotten accepted to a U.S. school? Does this mean you will have to redo what you have already completed at St. George's?
thanks,
PB

 

[Detroit Rock City]

Carbon,
What residency did you want so badly that you dropped out of SGU? I went to ross and got ER and guys in my class got Ortho and Optho. Yeah they did well, better than you, but I imagine that there are people at SGU that did just as well as the guys from ross did. I know that I matched with a guy from SGU and rotated with a couple of others who got ER as well. Last I cjecked, Er was a bit tougher than Peds.
Food for thought

 

[Carbon Klein]

I stopped attending SGU in Dec 98 after my surgery rotation. I really like neurosurgery and have spent time at the UCSF dept of neurosurgery with the attendings there (the residents are a bit standoffish, but that might be due to stress rather than a personality defect) and it seems that neurosurgery isn't a realistic option for IMGs.

I redid AMCAS and thankfully got into the MD/PhD program at the Med College of Ohio. If I can maintain an excellent performance, I should gave a good chance at neurosurgery.

I always thought SGU was a good school and gave me a good education and a worthwhile life experience living down there in Grenada, but they simply can't provide me with the opportunity into a field like neurosurgery. The administration and faculty of SGU were very supportive of my decisive to try to get into a US school and they understood my reasonale for doing so.

 

[Carbon Klein]

correction: reasonale=rationale

Yes, I have to repeat my work done at SGU. I'm planning to supplement the basic science tenure with some research. But since I'm only in a race with myself, I figure that I can take the time to do it again.

[This message has been edited by Carbon Klein (edited 04-24-2000).]

 

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I've heard that some schools will (and know a few that have), but it is few and far between.

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