Interesting that I got pegged for a comment I made 5 years ago that I still believe. I was being told by a good friend locally that their D will go to an elite state school OOS with a deliberate premed busting bent (paying 3 times our own flagship cost) to do premed (they give Cs to weed them out) but with a plan to take classes in summer elsewhere. I told the parent the samething in a message that the med schools might have unfavorable impression.
In the current situation, I would be more curious why a 3rd year student hasn’t covered 50-70% of the requirements already. What percentage of science classes are left and can the student take a few in the new school as opposed to making it obvious they are skipping all.