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Transfer Students

DirectConnect Students:

Pre-Health “DirectConnect” Transfer students include students at the following Central Florida state colleges:

  • Valencia College
  • Seminole State College
  • Eastern Florida State College
  • Lake-Sumter State College
  • Daytona State College
  • College of Central Florida

What services are available to DirectConnect students?


Some words of advice for our current and future Pre-Health Transfer Students:

  • Meet with the PHPL team early on to discuss your current progress and make a plan for moving forward along your Pre-Health journey.
  • Maintain high GPA, especially once you transfer to a four-year university. Grades must be very strong at the community/state college and continue to be very strong at the four-year university to be a competitive applicant.
  • Select a major you will enjoy and do well in (remember, you can be ANY major).
  • Get involved in meaningful extracurricular activities even before transferring to UCF (ex. volunteering, community service, shadowing, leadership, etc.).
  • Be strategic about where you complete science prerequisites. A small number of health professional schools may require that all science courses be completed at a four-year university. Do your research on desired programs.
    • If a Pre-Health student takes science courses while at a community/state college after transferring to a four-year university, they must: continue to earn very good grades, get a high score on their admissions test, and stay at the four-year university (should not be transient to take courses at community/state college).

For more information, see the Pre-Health Transfer Student Recommendation document.

Additional Resources & Publications:

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Click to watch our Pre-Health Tranfer Student Success Panel.
  • Finley, K., & Myszkowski, E. (2022, June). Building relationships: Pre-health advisors at four-year universities and community colleges. Presentation at the biennial conference of the National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions (NAAHP), Denver, Colorado.
  • Finley, K., & Myszkowski, E. (2019, May). Building relationships: Pre-health advisors at four-year universities and community colleges. Presentation at the biennial conference of the Southern Association of Advisors for the Health Professions (SAAHP), Memphis, Tennessee.
  • Myszkowski, E. (2014, June). Advising pre-health students who complete prerequisite courses at community colleges. Presentation at bi-annual meeting of National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions. (NAAHP). San Francisco, California.
  • Myszkowski, E. (2014, June). Advising pre-health students who complete prerequisite courses at community colleges. Presentation to Community College Focus Group during the bi-annual meeting of the National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions (NAAHP). San Francisco, California.
  • Myszkowski, E. (2013, April). Medical school prerequisite courses completed at two-year colleges by medical school matriculants: An analysis at the University of Central Florida. Presentation at bi-annual meeting of Southern Association of Advisors for the Health Professions (SAAHP), Louisville, Kentucky.
  • Myszkowski, E., & Cintrón, R. (2013). Medical school prerequisite courses completed at two-year colleges by medical school matriculants: An analysis at the University of Central Florida. The Advisor, 33(1), 28-33.
  • Myszkowski, E. (2013, February). Medical school prerequisite courses completed at community/state colleges by medical school matriculants: An analysis at the University of Central Florida. Presentation at annual meeting of Florida Pre-Health Advisors, Gainesville, Florida.
  • Medical School Prerequisite Courses Completed At Two-year Colleges By Medical School Matriculants: An Analysis At The University Of Central Florida – Dissertation by Erin Myszkowski, Director of PHPL Advising, University of Central Florida, Fall 2012