Ever been at a college you absolutely didn't mesh with?

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<p>Has anyone ever been in this situation or currently in the situation?</p>

<p>I'm currently attending a college that does not meet my needs. Well the campus doesn't. I'm trying really hard to cope with the campus but its failing. I'm looking to transfer out to another campus but fear that I will be rejected. </p>

<p>BTW I'm attending University of Washington Tacoma campus but want to transfer to the main campus. Tacoma campus I guess I would say is a really close knit community but I personally don't have any ties to it. I'm not even from Washington...so =/.</p>

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<p>Definitely try to transfer - it’s very possible to get to the school you want to. Just keep your grades amazing and build a strong application.</p>

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<p>Community college.</p>

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<p>Is that college you didn’t mesh with?</p>

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<p>Yep… a community college I was at felt more like high school than a college… transferred to another community college and actually fit right in at the CAD and machining courses (had usually good programs, equipment, and instructors) (KVCC). I liked it so much that I then transferred to a local university that was supposedly a top 100 US… unfortunately did not like a large portion of the students and some of the professors were really bad (but I had 2-3 good ones). </p>

<p>So transferred again to my current university (UMich) and I really like it here.</p>

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<p>Yep, I was in that position and leaving was a good decision.</p>

<p>I went to a small D3 school to play football, basically because it was in my hometown and I wasn’t real concerned about school while in HS. I was just like, yeah ok - I will go there, doesn’t really matter to me.</p>

<p>The school was about 2 miles from where I grew up, and only had about 4,000 students I think. Pretty campus, typical small private/Catholic school setting. I didn’t like such a small setting, and after awhile I didn’t like being so close to home either. When I’d go visit my friends at Penn State, Pitt, Maryland, and WVU I’d think, “wow - I’m really missing out on a great experience at one of these bigger schools.”</p>

<p>Everything was just better. Better dorms, better cafeterias, better looking girls, better parties, better libraries, better everything. Surprisingly, my grades were OK (I was an aweful HS student), and because it was a slow campus I spent alot of my time in the weight room, and put on alot of good weight. I started looking at D1 rosters and thinking about transfering, walking on.</p>

<p>I called my parents, told them what I wanted to do and they were pretty receptive. They were just happy that I was doing well and taking things seriously, so it was more of a “Well, if it keeps you happy” sorta thing. I visited 6 campuses, and mostly ranked them based on football, parties, and girls (maybe not in that order).</p>

<p>I finally picked WVU because it was the exact opposite of my current situation. It was big, lots of parties, great athletic, awesome facilities, awesome dorms, lots of cuties, lots of personality.</p>

<p>One of the best decisions of my life.</p>

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<p>When I visited Cal Poly Pomona and NAU I quickly saw that they were NOT for me, I knew it the moment I stepped onto the campus. I can just pick up if I’m going to mesh with a place or not, plus Pomona’s admin is really bad.</p>

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<p>definitely transfer. It’s not worth it.</p>

<p>And yeah, when I visited Penn State, I knew it wasn’t for me. Left halfway through the tour.</p>

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<p>Lehigh and Cornell were both places I knew I could never study at, and it sucked since I had such high expectations that they’d be perfect.</p>

<p>It’s odd since I’m hardly all that picky or looking for something great, I really like my cities community college, my state schools, small liberal arts places, some other ivies were nice, but those two just…drove me bored. I think it was the people, maybe I just had bad visits.</p>

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<p>Eastern Michigan University. </p>

<p>I honestly had no idea what I was getting myself into when I transferred in. Previously, I attended Parsons at the New School. All through high school, my only concerns were getting into Parsons, preparing my portfolio, and learning how to sew well. I was not focused on academics at that time, because I didn’t really need to be. I didn’t know what constituted a “good” school.</p>

<p>When I decided to come back to my home state, I applied to transfer into MSU, U-M, and EMU. I toured the EMU campus and saw that the school had some really beautiful, old ivy-covered buildings. I thought “any school with such dignified buildings must be reputable!” and was sold. </p>

<p>I wish with every thread of my being that I had gone to MSU, even though East Lansing is really lame (that’s why I didn’t go there). It’s too late for me to transfer now and I’m stuck. The administration is a bureaucratic nightmare and underachievers dominate, fuelled by disgusting levels of grade-inflation. I’m not even safe in the Honors College - it’s summer semester and there is not one advisor to meet with students. </p>

<p>Mediocre at best. I could honestly b!tch for days about how much I hate EMU and regret coming here, but it wouldn’t do any good.</p>

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<p>ham… sounds like it has a lot of the same problems as western michigan university.
Maybe you could transfer to umichigan next door?</p>

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<p>if you can transfer to the main campus, do it.</p>

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<p>I really wish I could, but I’ve just got too many credits at this point.</p>

<p>I read that they only take people with approximately <=60 credits which is like junior standing; right now I’ve got 101. </p>

<p>Plus, now that I’m in the Honors College, I’ll have to produce a thesis for departmental honors. </p>

<p>I guess it’s not all bad. I’m signed up to take a graduate-level course in my major next semester, and I’ll take as many of those classes as they’ll let me. Plus, maybe I can score an internship or something in a U-M research facility next summer; I do know that EMU grads (the good ones, anyway) often can find work relevant to their studies that way.</p>

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That’s really good.</p>