Best Year To Transfer

socal_1
Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:24:14 +0000

i’m pre-med for neuroscience, too… and i chose to apply this year (after freshman year) for the following reasons…


if you’re most concerned with improving the quality of your med school prep or something like that, i’d go ahead and try to transfer after the first year so you don’t miss out on important intro ed.
if you were to wait til sophomore year to apply, you probably wouldn’t have another chance to transfer out. if you don’t get into your dream school(s) after freshman year and wind up staying at your current school for another year, you’ll still have the option to transfer later (provided that you have a strong college gpa) - counting spring and fall application cycles, you’ll have 2 more chances before you’re stuck.


i don’t know what your grades are like… but it’s worth mentioning that it’s (probably) a lot easier to get into top-tier schools as a focused junior-level transfer applicant with a strong college record (or as a focused sophomore-level transfer with a so-so high school record and very strong gpa from the first year of college) than it would be for a superkid high school applicant.