Hi, i just wanted to get some opinions on whether my story will hinder me from getting interviews
I am currently a 3rd year doing my rotations and I am very interested in ortho. My first two years of medical school were done at a Carib. med school. However, I worked my bottom off, was number 1 in my class at that school, I scored a 259 on Step 1, and as a result I was able to transfer into an LCME accredited US medical school at the start of my 3rd year. So I am officially a full time student and will receive my M.D. from a US medical school. When I apply for ortho, since I transferred I will have to submit two transcripts, one from my current school for my 3rd and 4th years and one from my old school for my first two years. Will just having a transcript from the Carib medical school to show my grades (which were good) during my first two years hurt my chances at getting interviews even though I will be considered a US grad now? I will be getting all my letters from rotations at my current school and my dean's letter from my current school as well, Step scores coming from NBME (instead of ECFMG), but I am still worried that even though I have nothing to do with my old school now, will the fact that they will see the Carib name on one of the transcripts hinder my chances at interviews?
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Thanks for posting this. I am in the same situation as you. Thanks to everybody else for your responses. I hope it works out for both of us because we had to take the more difficult path to reach our goals.
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