<p>Self-explanatory: how did you KNOW you needed to transfer? (Specifically.)</p>
<p>When I realized that I needed more prestige. I worked hard in high school (3.94 UW GPA, 29 ACT) yet I am at a school with much lower standards. Not to mention, the recruiting at my school is not what I expected. My school’s website claims that Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, and a few other notable firms recruit on our campus but I have yet to see them at any recruiting events. Obviously there are other factors but the two aforementioned reasons are key in my decision.</p>
<p>In all honesty, I never wanted to transfer. If I had received a more favorable financial aid package from my first school, I would have stayed there and graduated a year from now with my B.A. in English.</p>
<p>But now that I have a strong GPA and great relationships with my professors, I might as well transfer to the school with the best combination of prestige and financial aid.</p>
<p>My school has 85+ percent acceptance rate. class average gpa in an easy class, with moderate work load was c-/d+. There were 400+ kids in that class but on a given lecture day, only 70-100 people were there. 59/4 hundred something recieved an A.</p>
<p>^Wow I thought I was in a pretty bad situation lol.</p>
<p>When I was placed into the highest course they could put me in for Spanish and I was reviewing things I had learned in middle school, I knew something wasn’t right. It didn’t get much better with the required English class being a repeat of my Junior and Senior year of high school.</p>
<p>Automatic admission at UT Austin. Someone with a 18 ACT can get admitted but a 33 ACT can get declined.</p>
<p>Average student may be “book smart” but is not “intellectually smart.”
Prestige is also a factor.
Grade inflation.</p>
<p>Then again, I don’t mean to discredit other students. In a non-arrogant way, it may seriously just be me.</p>
<p>I’m in CC, so I didn’t really have to make that decision! However, I did transfer after my freshman year from a four year school because it wasn’t what I was looking for. Too big for me, no distinct campus (it’s in the middle of a big city). Things I didn’t know that I wouldn’t like until I was already there. Now I’m graduating with two Associate’s though, and I know I want to complete my Bachelor’s, so it’s a pretty easy decision to transfer.</p>
<p>–Very poor program in what I want to study (unless you want do econ, international relations, or enviro, you’re pretty much hosed)
–Poor location (far from home, very very rural and impossible to get to)
–Butted heads repeatedly with coach, and would be more of a key player elsewhere
–Most of the students are uppity, entitled ding-dongs who see college as the Land of Zero Consequences - the opportunity to be as selfish and irresponsible as you want while you wait to be old enough for a high-paying finance job (which is to say, a lot of the people don’t care as much about learning as… not learning. I understand that college is supposed to be this whole-life formative thing and it’s not all about classes, but at the same time, I’m hoping to go somewhere where the students have a bit more sense of balance)</p>
<p>Also I think one of the defining moments of how I made the right choice in applying to transfer was when I started crying when I realized I was going to have to say goodbye to my friends - that is, when I realized that I have made friends (for pretty much the first time ever) but I still have that nagging sense that this isn’t the right place I am supposed to be.</p>
<p>When I had the highest grade in my GE Math course as an English major.</p>
<p>i feel the same way as transfer28…the people here are snobs and rude, not to mention very very dumb. I really feel like I don’t fit in, and no one cares about academics. People blow off school and party and do other things, and that is just not me.</p>
<p>When I realized that if I left, I would miss UMass more than I would miss my own school. </p>
<p>I am actually very happy academically – I am at a top liberal arts college and I feel both intellectually challenged and stimulated. But in the past year my priorities have really shifted and I want to be closer to my family, and also I have problems with the social aspect of my current campus, in that I just don’t feel comfortable or like I fit in here.</p>
<p>When I realized that I didn’t have to work at all to get a 4.0, yet the rest of the kids in the class would struggle with basic assignments. Also, my university is HUGE on image and what the donors see. They are all about just keeping the parents happy. It’s pretty much like high school part two, and no one seems to care about academics at all (all they do is party). My school is in a horrible city, which nothing to do. I felt like I didn’t fit in and that I wasn’t wealthy or elite enough to attend. Also, my university has HORRIBLE policies which really restrict what classes I take and when, and there was NO WAY I was going to graduate in 4 years. And on top of all that, my university costs 38000 and I didn’t receive any financial aid. But, as a transfer, I can get AMAZING scholarships because I have such a high incoming GPA, and so I would have to pay pretty much nothing.</p>