Graduate School Admission

Bigredmed
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:06:46 +0000

It might depend on the type of graduate school, but what you’ve described is absolutely the wrong thing to do if you’re looking towards medical school.

If it’s law school…it might be okay. Law schools tend to be much more numbers driven than medical school.

If it’s graduate school in something else - particularly a PhD in the hard sciences (Bio, chem, physics, etc), then the fewer opportunities to do research may matter. Being able to build that resume, and perhaps have some publications to your name will be easier over the course of 4 years than 2 years.

A PhD in something less academic and more vocational - like School Psychology - it may matter less, but I still think there are issues with the lack of continuity that comes from being on campus for 4 years.

The bottom line, there are advantages that come from being in one place for a longer period of time - more time for campus and community involvement, more time for research and co-curricular endeavors, more time to develop the relationships with professors that lead to great LOR’s and so on.