NYU student looking for a big change: is SEC a bad idea?

Transfer Students
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Hi all,
NYU rising junior here, philosophy major, want-to-be premed. I’m struggling a little at NYU and considering a transfer for several goals:

• Easier classes → better chance of doing premed classes successfully
• Easier classes → can balance work and school
• Less competition → better chance at getting into med school
• Rural location → chance to work in EMS
• Community (which NYU does not have)
• More salt-of-the-earth culture (NYU feels pretentious and too full of rich kids for me)
• Less stressful lifestyle

I’m taking a lightload and possibly a gap semester so I would be applying for transfer as a repeat junior.

These are some of the schools I’m considering:
• Ole Miss
• UAH/UAB
• Vanderbilt
• Duke (probably harder than NYU → bad choice)

  1. Do these sound like potentially good choices for me? Any insider info on these schools? Am I correct that premed classes will be easier than at NYU?

  2. Is it a crazy idea to leave NYU? I’m a good student (got into CMU and Duke also) and have a whole life here (great job at the hospital, research experience, mentors and close professors). I’m from NYC and have always lived here.

Thanks for any thoughts!

2

Dude, no. Imagine the number of credits not transferring.

What’s your major?

3

I’ve taken a lot of basic/intro classes that would transfer to most other schools. Philosophy major/premed

4

Vanderbilt would be an interesting change of campus culture for you. Vandy’s transfer rate is higher than freshman acceptance rate.

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Generally a bad idea (for med school) without a good reason to transfer. But, not enuf into. What is “struggling” GPA-wise? What STEM classes have you taken? What do you still need to take?

Can you afford to be full pay at the OOS’s?

You are from NYC. Have you ever lived any place else? How do you know that you will adjust well to the south? Why the South? Why not a SUNY or NE/midwest public?

btw: Phil is a strength of NYU.