<p>What are people's opinions on visiting schools if you're a transfer student? I'm guessing it's less important than for freshman admissions. Do people normally visit if they're applying to transfer? Or do they just visit after they get their acceptances? </p>
<p>Also, one more question: I'm at SUNY Stony Brook right now, and I'm not too thrilled with it. My lowest grade is a 99 out of all my classes, so I'll have a 4.0 most likely, or close to it. I have 30 credits brought in from AP classes, and I've seen that some schools want me to apply as a junior applicant based on this. I know that not all of my credits will transfer, but I need to explain and justify my major in this case. But I just started and am only in an introductory course in linguistics (my major), and I may want to switch to something else. Not that I don't like linguistics, but I'm also very interested in international relations. I feel like I could justify that as a major, more tangibly, than linguistics or philosophy. Like I've dedicated a lot of time and money to working with Oxfam, and I absolutely love it. I could see myself working for them long-term. I'm applying to be a change leader this year, too. I've spent hours dedicating my time to learning about their campaigns, especially the newest Grow campaign. I volunteer with the Manhattan Action Corps and am at events and meetings for it every week. I feel like I'm more passionate about than linguistics right now, but that's only because I have experience that relates to it. I find a lot of the transfer questions very difficult to answer because of the major thing and also not fully knowing how to articulate why I want to transfer to certain schools.</p>