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How badly will changing colleges hurt chances of grad/med school?

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I am currently going to the University of Houston, but an opportunity arrose for me to move to Florida.

My brother currently goes to FSU, and my mom owns a house in this little town called Wakulla (about 20 minutes from Talahasee), and my brother is gonna live there next year and commute to school.

I have the opportunity to go live with him in this house, go to Community College for a year since out of state tuition is rediculous, then finish up at FSU the year after...
In addition, I pretty much hate Houston. I hate the traffic, the weather, but I have a lot of friends here.

How badly will this hurt my chances of getting in to med school or pharmacy school? Will it effect it at all?
 
is FSU better for your major?

that's about the only way i can see it helping... community college won't though
 
None really, assuming the school is accredited and all. You might have a hard time getting all the classes you need for premed at a community college though. Make sure you only take science classes geared for transfering science majors, not practical science courses geared for vocational training which tend to be more common at community colleges.
 
To my knowledge, nothing specific about transferring will hurt your chances. What I would be more concerned about is how many credits you will be able to transfer to FSU... I don't have any first-hand experience, but I have heard horror stories about people having to re-take classes because the credits weren't transferable for whatever reason.

But yeah, find out how your major program is at FSU as opposed to Houston. Depending on what it is, changing schools may even better your chances if FSU has a higher-ranked program.

l2c
 
the only way it would hurt you is if you're downgrading colleges (re: going from a major state school to a community college). the grad school admissions people might think that you couldn't cut it at a competative university, and chose to go the community college route as an easy out.

upgrading can help, but make sure you have a good reason. I went from going to LHU (small school in PA... decent enough programs, but not a big name school) to going to Penn State after my freshman year. when I interviewed for the grad school English department at NYU, they asked me about it. I explained that in high school, I was a total slacker, which meant that my grades were less than competative; I used the year at LHU to prove that I was able to cut it at the bigger schools, and with a 3.9 by the end of my freshman year, was in a position to gain admittance into the school that I really wanted.
 
Originally posted by: loki8481
the only way it would hurt you is if you're downgrading colleges (re: going from a major state school to a community college). the grad school admissions people might think that you couldn't cut it at a competative university, and chose to go the community college route as an easy out.
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