Should I transfer from U of M to another less challenging Big Ten school?
I am in my first semester at University of Michigan and I plan to attend medical school 3 years from now. I am working hard but the curriculum is so downright tough that I dont know if I maintain a 3.5 which is usually a requirement to get into most medical programs. Would it be best for me to work hard at U of M for a year and if I cant get those grades transfer to a school that is a little less challenging where I could get those grades and learn alot of material?
If you go to a less prestigious school that can hurt you. The grades are important, but so are where they came from. A student with a 3.5 at community college is going to be looked at INCREDIBLY differently than a student at a well respected university with a 3.5. Stay at the better school and just really crack down on yourself, dont go out or anything until your grades are up, it might be hard, but if you want your dreams to be realised, its the price you have to pay.
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December 28th, 2008 at 2:39 am
If you go to a less prestigious school that can hurt you. The grades are important, but so are where they came from. A student with a 3.5 at community college is going to be looked at INCREDIBLY differently than a student at a well respected university with a 3.5. Stay at the better school and just really crack down on yourself, dont go out or anything until your grades are up, it might be hard, but if you want your dreams to be realised, its the price you have to pay.
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December 28th, 2008 at 3:17 am
I would say stay. On the resume it looks better than if you went to Delta Communtity College. Tough, yes. But it all works out in the end.
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December 28th, 2008 at 3:30 am
The whole point is that college is supposed to be hard. And you want to go to medical school! I don't know if i wold ever want to go to a doctor that thought it was too hard so they took the easy way out. Stay at U of M.
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