A Few Questions About Transferring...

entomom
Tue, 05 Nov 2013 23:41:15 +0000

I would love to major in Psychology and take the premed reqs, but they said it would be “safer” if I chose not to.



I’m not sure who ‘they’ are, but if you go to the Premed Topics forum, you’ll see repeatedly that major doesn’t matter. This is also demonstrated in MCAT scores for matriculating med students:

https://www.aamc.org/download/161692/data/table18.pdf

SATs will be more important for soph transfers; and selective schools may consider them for any transfer applicants. There’s no reason to take Subject tests once you have a college record.

The biggest impact of your dual enrollment courses may be when applying to med school, where every college course you have ever taken will be included in your gpa calculation.