<p>I was just wondering what your reasoning was behind transferring and whether you knew you were going to transfer when you went to your first university or whether it was just not the right school for you (and why it was not the right school for you). Thanks and I hope you have a wonderful time in your next school!</p>
<p>My reason is simple. I am at a two year college and I want to finish my bachelor’s degree. I have done some significant research with one of my professors. Through this I have been able to identify my own academic interests in my field (sociology) and match up professors at potential transfer colleges.</p>
<p>This has greatly narrowed the schools to which I want to apply in '09. Best of luck to you!</p>
<p>Thanks!! anyone else have any insight?</p>
<p>Well, I started at Case Western Reserve University, which I’d applied to only so that I could have a safety option inside the United States, but still outside of Michigan. The only better American college I got into was a business school, which was inconsistent with my plans to study Political Science and History. So I went to Case, at first planning to transfer. But when I got there, I decided to try and make the most of my experience, and hold off on making any transfer decisions until I’d given it a fair shake. At first, it wasn’t too bad, and I was considering staying for all four years. But after a couple of months, once the novelty of being at college wore off, I found myself displeased with my experience, and my prospects for the remaining years. So, after the end of the first semester I began applying elsewhere as a transfer, considering a much different group of schools than I previously had. This is because my experience from having spent a semester at college gave me a better idea of what I thought was missing, and allowed me to search for schools that offered what I was looking for. In my case, the main issues were the weakness and lack of offerings in the social sciences (especially Political Science), and the campus attitude towards Jewry and Israel (not to mention the Jewish indifference to it) that compelled me to look elsewhere. With those issues in mind, I came up with a list of seven schools that seemed to be far better in those two regards and were otherwise desirable. They were:</p>
<p>Cornell - Applied; rejected
Penn - Applied; rejected
Rice - Applied; waitlisted
WashU - Applied; accepted</p>
<p>Emory - Applied, but withdrew my application due to issues with their office of admissions, and my decision to go to WashU.
Claremont Mckenna - Missed the deadline by mistake.
URochester - Since this had been my safety, and the deadline was in June, I figured I’d wait until I heard back elsewhere before I even bothered to apply. As it turns out, I’d gotten into WashU and was waitlisted at Rice, so I never sent my app in here.</p>
<p>Come August, I’ll be going to school at WashU. Having visited for the transfer orientation, I have high expectations for my remaining three years. I met more Jewish people in one weekend than in one year at Case. And the Political Science department is among the top in the nation. </p>
<p>Hope that helped. If you’ve got any other questions about the transfer process, I’m happy to help you via PM.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot gprime!! It really did help!</p>
<p>I plan on transferring simply because I’m at a community college right now. My standardized test scores weren’t stellar in high school which really screwed up my selection of colleges. I had a lousy 18 ACT score and 1390 SAT score. I want a Bachelors degree and go off to film school…community colleges don’t offer that. Also, an Associates Degree nowadays doesn’t come in handy. It’s almost similar to having only a high school diploma. A Bachelors degree will give me more options for jobs while at the same time I will most likely be making more money.</p>
<p>I’m going to art school and I’ve realized that I wasn’t so sure about art as I thought I was. Transferring to a university is the best solution for me because I can double major in art and something else, and have another career option.
Also, the environment is extremely limited and there is little sense of community.</p>
<p>I went into my school absolutely positive I would not transfer. I had a ridiculous amount of school spirit. I remember last August my Dad mentioned that I could possible transfer after the first year and I got mad that he would even suggest it because I thought there was no way I would transfer. Well, I got there, joined student government and got involved, and realized it simply was not a good fit. The school was much more religious and conservative than I thought. Not to mention I got into a much better school than the one I was at so I kept thinking “I could’ve gone to Macalester”. So within the first few months I started looking to transfer. I transferred mostly because I didn’t like the apathy of the student body and the lack of intellectual stimulation. The atmosphere just wasn’t the best. And now I’m going 2,000 miles away to California! woo hoo!</p>
<p>The LAC I attend is tiny. I can’t make the connections I need to further my career goals. The financial aid is not the best. I have had to take out loans. The schools I am looking at provide more financial, and career options for me.
I am also ready to move back up north.</p>
<p>I have an older sister in art college who has stress issues and can’t work during school. So my single mom gives most of the money to her for her living expenses. So I paid all my financial matter all thru HS. Worked 20hrs soph/40hrs Jr/50-55 Sr. So I tried to do my best but mostly ranged from 2.5-2.8 at best. As I a a messup fr year my overall GPA was 2.03uw/2.33w for hs overall, but was at best public HS in MA. I applied to a ton of colleges figuring that colleges would realize my commitment outside the classroom is as hard as getting a high 3 GPA. Also I didn’t realized this to after I started getting rejected, but in HS I never took 2 years of the same language, taking 1 year of two languages. SO I had the requiremnt to grad, but not be able to enter almost all colleges. So I luckily got into ASU. Like even before I got my letter I planned on transferring. Talked to my HS advisor how to go bout it. Then like once it started getting close to going out to ASU I got a bit psyched for college and the first few weeks of school tried to really get involved. But after the pumped up feeling died down I realized it was not the school for me. It felt like no one really care about class at all. Like people will do essays morning of due dates etc. Then anyone who did care were also planned of transferring and very bitter about being there and acted like the were better than everyone. Plus I changed my major at orientation. I asked should I call the school and confirm it and was told no. Only to find 6 months later it was never changed and had my student account put on hold. And the same advisor told me to take a bunch of course for my major, only to find out that none of the classes were on the first semester path for my major. Then as a last low blow when I got my spring grades a professor gave me a B for a class I had an A and refused to change it telling me, I didn’t know how to add numbers correctly and he was right. So I have to appeal it thru the dean of the dept. </p>
<p>In general it just didn’t feel right. It was like getting a pair of new shoes and being really excited to have new shoes, then aftering wearing them around for a few days having foot aches and blister b.c the shoe was the wrong size. The only thing I enjoyed about the school was the football games and the school I’m transferring to has even better football.</p>
<p>What school are you going to now selk21?</p>
<p>USouthern Cal</p>
<p>I transferred because I picked the absolute wrong fit school and was miserable there. After transferring I was so happy…what a difference a right fit school makes!</p>
<p>How was the school the wrong fit, LilyMoon?</p>
<p>did some hardcore research in high school that was published in one of the most scientific European journals. Unfortunately this took up a lot of time and energy and I couldn’t focus on my schoolwork as a result. I want to transfer because the college I am at doesn’t offer a wide variety of research opportunities.</p>
<p>I got into Cal Poly SLO for Social Sciences, but I want to do Business. Cal Poly makes it hard for you to change majors. Basically I got rejected from all the top UC’s. I want to transfer to USC Marshall or Berkeley Haas for Business.</p>
<p>Well, my parents wanted me to apply to a few top schools early on in senior year, but our financial situation wasn’t that great then, so I gnored my parents and applied to mainly state schools and Ann Arbor kinda a lot after their early decision deadline.</p>
<p>But towards the middle of the year our income more than tripled and all of a sudden we could afford any college…So I felt kinda bad about not applying to more top schools in hopes of making one.</p>
<p>So right now my parents want me to transfer to UofM…I told them I want to see how I like MSU honors first…</p>
<p>But I’m really confused with the transferring process, like if I want to transfer after my freshman year, do I apply ASAP(as in this fall) or do I apply after my first semester? Are all transfer students viewed the same way(ie no early decision crap that Umich has)?</p>
<p>Made a thread but received minimal responses:( any help appreciated.</p>
<p>Yeah, if you want to transfer after your first year you should apply before February first.</p>
<p>How was the school the wrong fit, LilyMoon?</p>
<p>My first school was cold, rural, and the people were just not my type at all. All they were interested in was frat parties, how to wear high heels in the snow and more partying. Then I transferred to a city school where the city became my campus and the people were so diverse and interesting. I went from being miserable to loving my new school.</p>
<p>As of now, I intend to apply for transfer at Columbia next fall (if certain things work out)
I just (literally just) transferred to Fordham LC, and visited the school about two weeks ago and was horribly disappointed. I found my previous rinkydink middle-of-nowhere state school to be a goldmine in comparison.</p>