Characteristics and trends of U.S. Foreign Medical Students who sought transfers from foreign to U.S. medical schools via the Coordinated Transfer Application System (COTRANS) from the beginnning of the program in 1970 up to the present is presented. The overall focus is on the five-year time period, 1972 through 1976. Descriptions of other-than-AAMC re-entry programs are included to provide perspective for the COTRANS data. Changes in selected major characteristics of COTRANS participants over time are presented in four major sections: (1) historical and current information; (2) academic ability levels; (3) demographic and career choice data; and (4) other-than-AAMC re-entry programs. COTRANS data presented were derived mainly from the computerized COTRANS tape filing comprising information supplied by COTRANS participants and Part I, NBME test scores furnished by the National Board of Medical Examiners. (SPG)