I think, based on your preferences, the natural order would be:
- U of Washington
- Case Western
- GWU
Taking cost into account adds the U of Florida.
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Why not attend your state university, instead of worrying about whether your courses will be accepted for transfer subject credit? Courses not accepted for transfer subject credit may have to be repeated at the new university, and repeating courses looks bad on medical school applications.
If OP got As, they can understand credit not being accepted
UF is a wonderful opportunity. I spent many years there in graduate school. Are you OK with having to spend one semester on campus in the summer? That’s about the only issue that I could see that might be different than some of your other choices. Go gators!
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Please explain this?
Some of this student’s courses just might NOT be accepted towards a degree at some of these colleges. The student needs to check.
@canary28 You can message me for an explanation.
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I got it.
that’s just tuition, if you add room/board/meal plan you will be around $90K. It looks like OP assumes that room/food will be more or less the comparable across the schools.
And it is not. My kids went to college the same year and the room and board fees were more than $5000 apart. Both were in smaller towns so you’d think they would have been similar, but they weren’t. One was in a traditional 2 person dorm and had the option of a more limited meal plan (so cheaper). The other was in a 4 bedroom suite but had a required ‘freshman’ unlimited dining plan (the freshman meal plan was really expensive and even the same thing for sophomores was cheaper). When she moved off campus it was a lot (a LOT) cheaper.
Some of the schools the OP listed are in expensive cities, so I’d expect the R&B to be $20k+. CWRU or UVA might be a little cheaper but you really never know. UF will be significantly cheaper.
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Tbh,
Where you go is less important than how you do.
So OP
Choose what fits best for you in terms of where you want to go to school and the economics behind it. My son is pursuing biochem and planning on going to med school. We’re considering ucsb (in state) v NYU and the decision comes down to if he wants to have the “college experience” or live in NYC.
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Yes, but if OP got As in them, medical schools will be able to tell that OP isn’t retaking them to improve GPA, but because OP has to. (Or does OP? Even if the new school doesn’t accept the previous grade for credit at the new school, it’s still part of the record submitted to AMCAS and should count towards medical school requirements)
@wayoutwestmom can clarify this at least somewhat.
Likely will count as fulfilling admission requirements, but won’t count toward fulfilling graduation requirements at the new school.
But if the non-transferable course or courses are graduation requirements for their major or are pre-reqs for UL coursework the student needs to take at the new school, the student would have to retake them at the new school.
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That sounds right to me. Of the schools OP listed, I think UF would be the most likely to accept their AP and transfer credit towards the degree.
OP, check out transferology to see if any of those schools have accepted your courses for transfer credit before.
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