I am also an SMU student who was considering transfering to Ross U. I have recently changed my mind and I am going to stick with SMU. SMU is a good school....heck, it helped me score in the 230's on the step 1 exam. I am more concerned with getting a good education and being loyal than I am with how reputable my school is. Personally, I could care less what people or PD's think about my school. I have good basic sciences grades (3.8 probably), good board scores (so far) and I plan on getting great LOR and getting great grades during clinicals. These things can easily outweigh the reputation of SMU.

Well thats just me. I happen to like SMU. I don't believe all the rumors that spread through the school. I really do believe that SMU is going to be a great school some day, it is simply going through growing pains right now. I hope you come to the right decision on transfering schools.

As a foreign doc, you are still considered a foreign doc in the eyes of PD's no matter which school you attended.

However, most PD's have experience with students from the "big 3" because of their being around for year and having a higher turnout of students that enter the Match and further pursue Residency.

Having been on the interview trail (with a lot of Carib students with high GPA's and high board scores), I can say that the name of the school did matter. I didn't meet many residents at the programs I interviewed at from schools other than SGU, Ross, AUC, or Saba.

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