<p>Undergraduate student going into his third year. I defer my admission to attend a larger school for the convenience of </p>
<p>1) money
2) undecided major</p>
<p>My reason for transferring is to a larger school is their broad majors & programs. Also, more research and networking opportunities.</p>
<p>For the past 2 years I been full filling my school's Liberal Arts and Science (LAS) requirements. I am 2 classes away from obtaining my associate degree. Problem is no major. </p>
<p>Did I make the right decision?
What should I do?</p>
<p>A little about me.</p>
<p>3.2 Gpa cumulative.
only experience I had was working retail</p>
<p>I think it really depends on your major. If you’re a marketing, PR, communications, business or something along that lines it would make advantageous to transfer to a larger school so you could fully take advantage of networking oppurtunities, alumni connections, etc. If you’re pre-professional it’s not as big a deal unless you want to do research.</p>
<p>But if you’re ambitions you can seek or create oppurtunities of your own.</p>
<p>Not really the answer I was looking for, but appreciate the response nonetheless. :)</p>
<p>anyone else???</p>
<p>So you don’t have any prerequisites done for any major? Check out assist.org. You should’ve decided on a major your first semester.</p>
<p>I don’t have a major declared. I’m sure whatever major I’ll go into, I’ll have some prereq covered from general ed classes. I reviewed the website you provided, and I did not get the answer I was looking for…</p>
<p>Well, if you are going to apply to Universities this Fall for Fall 2013, make up your mind about the major and start taking prerequisites. Chances are you have a lot to take. You can probably finish a lot with one more year before you transfer. Choose a major, look at assist.org to see what prerequisites you to take, and start knocking them out.</p>
<p>This is what you have to do if you want to transfer. It’s too late for this Fall, but you can still apply for next fall.</p>
<p>uh, I’m sorry if I was being unclear, but I plan to transfer to universities in the spring. As for majors, I don’t want to dive into any and make the mistake of switching in my latter years of undergrad. When you say look into the website for prereq, do you mean look into the schools I plan to transfer and check their required prereq courses? If so, should I go ahead of myself and take classes for those now? Isn’t that a bit risky?</p>
<p>Thanks for your replies!!</p>
<p>This is how it works for me in California. I’m not sure how it works for you. I can easily figure it out if you tell what university you want to transfer to and what school you go to (it seems like you are currently attending a community college).</p>
<ol>
<li>In order to transfer to a university, you usually need to have at least 60 transferable credits by the end of spring.</li>
<li>You need to apply about 1 year in advance to transfer. For example, I’m applying to universities this November for Fall 2013. You can’t simply choose to go Spring if you haven’t applied yet.</li>
<li>You need to complete as many prerequisites as you can before you transfer to be a competitive applicant. This is VERY IMPORTANT especially if you have a competitive major. If you are attending a community college, chances are you are taking general ed classes and lower division classes; 100-200 ranges-- and following a specific pattern like IGETC. Taking the prerequisites prepare you for upper-division courses. Once you transfer, you will be taking, almost exclusively, upper division course work for your major. For example, the prerequisites I’m supposed to take before I transfer are Intro to Archaeology 209, Intro to Bio Anthro 212 and Intro to Cultural Anthropology 210. These courses will prepare me for like Human evolution 350 and Advance topics in Archaeology 400, etc. This is not risky and it’s something you have to do! </li>
<li>Have a competitive GPA.</li>
</ol>
<p>What community college do you go to? What major and university are you interested in?</p>
<p>Honestly, I’m pretty much in the same boat as you currently, and I know a lot of people who have made that similar decision.
I think you did make the right choice. Larger universities tend to have more options (not always but most of the time) and it allows you room to grow and kind of find yourself lol that’s corny…but true!
So, I mean personal I think you are making the right decision and if your undecided hopefully this university will allow you to expand your options and figure out what path you want to go on.</p>
<p>I’m from NY. I go to school in brooklyn. I look to transfer into syracuse university or Suny Binghamton. I currently have 55 credits. I’m applying for the spring of 13’’. Deadline for both school isn’t till late september, mid october of this year. At my community college, I was put in a program that’ll get me a associate degree for liberal arts and science. Yes, all classes taken were introductory courses. However, I’ve still yet to find a passion/major I want to pursue. That is my main issue right now. My Gpa as it stands is a 3.2 overall with upward trend. </p>
<p>By the time I transfer, I’ll be in my last semester of JUNIOR year at whatever school I end up in. If needed be, I have no problem staying a extra year to complete whatever requirements I need to graduate with a degree I’m happy with. </p>
<p>@ julie, I don’t know if I wasn’t be clear, or if it was just a misunderstanding, but I made the decision to turn down my admission at a “larger school” due to certain circumstances (money & indecisive major). I am due to reapply for the spring term, hopefully with a major set this time. I’ll be staying at my community college this fall semester. (my school is a 4 year institution that offers both associate and bachelor). I was seeking advice and confirmation on my decision, but appreciate the comment nonetheless. :)</p>
<p>Oh, my bad I misread your post.</p>
<p>That’s weird I am currently in NY as well at my community college looking to transfer into SUNY Binghamton but I’m too afraid my GPA is low I know it says to have at least a 3.0 but I know a lot of transfers that had a 3.5 and was denied lol</p>
<p>anyways, sorry for the misunderstanding!</p>
<p>Are you in your second year? I got admitted to binghamton last spring with a 3.0 gpa and 2 recommendations. As mentioned, I turn it down to save cost and time. I will be reapplying next semester. We may cross path since we both reside in NY. Let me know how it turns out for you. Would be nice to know someone on the board that goes to the same school :)</p>
<p>Bump, still need advices!!</p>