Pre-Health transfer students arrive with a variety of academic and experiential backgrounds. This section covers many of the typical questions that affect their registration and degree planning.
Students who transfer in with some or all of their first-year biology and chemistry will be going into the next courses without the experience that most of their fellow students have in UT Austin classrooms. Students who transfer in with no college-level math and science will have the advantage of starting out in first-year science here at UT Austin; however, due to starting sciences later, they may be completing their HP prerequisites in their senior year or after. In both cases, it is important that these students get on board academically before filling their schedules with extra-curricular activities.
Academic Advisors are often the first to notice when students are dealing with challenges of academic rigor such as time management and learning to study and prep for biology and chemistry tests. Because GPA is a critical component of their preparation and competitiveness for health professions schools, it is important that they do not delay making use of faculty and TA office hours, discussion and review sections, and Sanger Learning Center services, including one-to-one tutoring and academic coaching. After the first test is often too late.
HPO Peer Coaches are available to mentor students on balancing academic and non-academic health professions prerequisites. Pre-Health Professions Coaches can help students look at their progress toward professional school applications and strategic options they have for reaching that goal.
For pre-health professions transfer student advising, we offer the following detailed recommendations.