Premed Transfer: Columbia vs UPenn vs Duke

PineappleEater
Sun, 19 May 2013 18:03:57 +0000

I am a premed rising sophomore at a top 20 university with 3.8+ GPA. I don’t quite enjoy the social scene at my school because of heavy Greek dominance and lack of variety, so I applied for transfer and have just been admitted to Columbia (CC), UPenn (CAS), and Duke (Trinity). Although my current school has a strong premed program and an on-site med school, the new schools are more well-known and prestigious and have excellent (stronger?) premed program too. Duke will cost $5k more per year, while my costs will stay almost the same at the other two. Please help as I feel hesitating either to stay or start from scratch at a new school. Most of my credits will transfer but I am sure there will be quite some extra work to excel in a new environment. What do you think? It will be great if previous transfer students can share their experiences.