<p>If you have transferred into MMC or you have transferred out (or are planning to transfer out) of MMC, can you please just write about what impacted your decision?</p>
<p>And what college are you transferring from/ to?</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/education/edlife/25urban-t.html?ref=education[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/education/edlife/25urban-t.html?ref=education</a></p>
<p>read this, it should probably shed a little light on the MMC situation.</p>
<p>Thanks, I actually already read that article before and it was pretty interesting. I thought maybe someone here might have personal experience with MMC.</p>
<p>Attended MMC for freshman year / Will be a sophomore at NYU this fall</p>
<p>I am surprised more people have not responded to your post as I have heard MMC be compared to a revolving door, “people come in, people come out” - 38% do not return after their first year.</p>
<p>Overall, I was EXTREMELY unhappy with the school and that is why I applied to transfer so quickly. The factors that contributed to this dissatisfaction include:</p>
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<li><p>Lack of drive/motivation in the students: I am the kind of person that got to college expecting to get what I had paid for: an education. Therefore, I worked hard in my classes, did my homework, participated, etc. The vast majority of students there didn’t do the same. Most of the students treated homework and papers like they were completely unimportant, texted, facebooked, talked throughout our small classes, would miss weeks of class, and just overall didn’t care AT ALL. Let me just say I have never been the kind of person that is really into school or is at all an overachiever, etc but “HELLO! I’ts college, people!”</p></li>
<li><p>Didn’t find myself meshing well with the kind of people who choose to attend. Although I am in the arts, an actor, in high school I wasn’t only friends with other people in drama. My friends came from the soccer, mock trial, track team, etc. The students at Marymount (of course not ALL) were all into different arts that I didn’t get a sense of diversity (of course some people may feel like this is the environment for them, it just wasn’t for me.)</p></li>
<li><p>Never felt like I was in college. This was probably the biggest factor. I talked to so many students about this who felt the same way. It is a bit hard to describe, and hard to understand if you aren’t a student there, but I’ll do my best. It was like I was just kind of taking classes in a random building on the Upper East Side. Not only did people not care about school, such a small amount of people are actually happy there that there is no unity or spirit. The school is very small, about 2,000, and I knew (somewhat) less that 70 I would say. The school doesn’t own anything - i.e. one cafeteria in the school building, at least 20 blocks from all dorms which have none, no school bookstore, sports teams, sports fields, student center, medical/health center (just opened 1 in 1/3 dorms at the end of the year) - no buildings besides the one school building (which they try and call 2 - yeah right) and the three dorms which are incredibly far apart. Orientation was awful, student events etc were scarce and those that existed didn’t seem worth it. Isn’t the point of college to grow up socially and academically? Didn’t really feel like this was going to happen the way it should if I stayed. Also why would you want to be at a school where no one wants to be?</p></li>
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<p>Let me know if you have any other questions, I would be happy to answer them. Also you can pm your personal situation if you want (i.e. if that is your only option for college I can 100% tell you how to make the best of it. Just because the school was awful, in my opinion, I had a great year in the amazing NYC - it is possible!)</p>
<p>What was the process of transferring out?</p>
I would like to know the process of transferring out. I’m currently a freshman in my first semester. I am aware that this thread is old.
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