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[quote=Anonymous]Hi OP
My UMD kid starts med school in august 
UMD had great prehealth advising, prepared him well for the MCATs and offered good research opportunities.  However, as with any big school you have to seek out help and opportunities. 
The biggest problem was getting clinical experience and in my opinion this is probably the main advantage of UVA - having a teaching hospital on campus is going to provide many and varied opportunities for clinical experience.  
In Maryland, the med school is in Baltimore and there aren’t any teaching hospitals in college park.  
In terms of prestige, honestly I don’t think that matters very much for med school.  In any case, UMD stem programs are probably comparable to UVA.  The humanities is probably where UVA has a real edge. 
I am assuming you live in Virginia.  In which case another key advantages of transferring is to get in state tuition so you can save your money for med school.  At that stage, you typically go where you get in regardless of price.  Relatively few students get multiple acceptances.  [/quote]

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