confused sophmore!

mohnas
Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:03:51 +0000

Hey all,
I have been thinking about transferring from my school to a more competitive school, but I’m facing a small dilemma. The reason being is that the school that I currently attend gave me a great experience (such as letting me participate in their med school’s research) that I fear may not be provided by the school I might transfer to. It is a top tier school and ranked in top 5 public schools or top 30 national schools according to usnews. The only thing that is prompting me to switch schools is that I want to be considered a student not just a number (the school enrolls 40k students and its very overwhelming) I have been seriously thinking about going to UVA, UCLA or whatever you guys might be recommending.

My stats are:
-OOS student (virginia resident)
-Non-native English speaker but a U.S citizen (immigrated from a poor country in Africa)
-3.8 freshman year college gpa with 34 credits (taking primarily pre-med courses aside from philosphy and german courses)
-participated in med school’s research studies (my name was published on pubmed.com as one of the animal neurosurgeons)
-certified as a firefighter/emt (been active in the ems since junior year in high school)

shadowed my dad’s surgeries since sophmore year in hs (about 200 hours now)

this sophmore year I’ll act as a CPR instructor for school’s student EMS group
-got a 3.4 unweighted gpa in hs and 1050 on SATs ( took it 3 times before I called it quits )

I’m just wondering if it’s worth it to transfer or am I fine where I’m at.
Feel free to reply to this, all comments are welcomed.