<p>I'm having some second thoughts because I don't feel like I have the strong feelings or passions behind my decision that my other friends who are transferring have (I know a lot of people from my school who are transferring, too, haha.) I feel like I have strong reasons to transfer and it really excites me at the thought of going to my top choice and I'm already fantasizing going there. I really love the idea of going elsewhere, exploring different schools but well.</p>
<p>I like my friends here. I really do. I've grown really fond of them over the past few months. I've met some really nice professors who have been extraordinary to me. I'll really miss these people a lot and all the different clubs and things I've been doing while I've been here.</p>
<p>I guess it sounds silly now that I put it this way; what I mean to say is that I'm not sure what to do because I don't completely hate my school. I'll actually probably miss it if I leave. So I'm so confused as to what to do because I don't have as strong of a conviction to leave because well. I don't have really strong feelings to leave.</p>
<p>So is it wrong or a bad sign for me to still feel like I'll miss my school if I transfer? Because I haven't seen this addressed before and I was wondering if this ever happens to people who do choose to transfer. Thanks :)</p>
<p>There is nothing wrong with the notion that you will miss your current school or the friends you have made there. </p>
<p>You can have valid reasons for transferring and a very successful transfer while still looking back with fondness on your old school.</p>
<p>It's all about why you want to transfer. Do you have a great feeling where you are, but it doesn't have a program you want? </p>
<p>Without hearing your motivation for considering transfer, it's hard to know whether you only considered transfer due to buyer's remorse that you are now outgrowing.... Or still have a strong reason to make a move.</p>
<p>I've made really good friends at my current college and I will definitely miss them if I transfer. I don't have any issues with my schools academics and it does have the program i want. However, I still want to transfer because i ended up at my last choice and i still want to go to those other schools. I just want something different. I've been living in the same area for 18 years.</p>
<p>"i ended up at my last choice and i still want to go to those other schools"
Did you apply to any of "those schools"? Were you accepted or rejected? If you were rejected then you should know that the chances of acceptance are far less as a transfer student than as a Freshman for most colleges. If you were accepted then you have a better chance of reacceptance as a transfer.</p>
<p>I do feel I have strong reasons for transferring. The academic environment is... lacking, for lack of a better word. I know I'm not being challenged enough and this is a cakewalk compared to high school for me, where I took a full load of AP and honors courses and felt like I was really working to my potential. I wanted a more intellectual environment where people like to learn just for the sake of learning. (I get made fun of for doing my homework on time :/ Kind of awkward for me...)</p>
<p>I hate the location (I'm from Chicagoland and I'm in southwestern VA. I'm planning on actually migrating further north. I miss actual winters!) I also have trouble flying; I get anxiety attacks and I need to fly whenever I go home and the prospect of having to fly 5 times a year really frightens me already.</p>
<p>My school is bite sized (800 and is smaller than my graduating class in high school) and I feel so claustrophobic. I'd like a few hundred more people at my college so I could have some escape from certain people. It gets very hard to avoid people with a school this small... and that bothers me a lot.</p>
<p>I'm also in a pretty apathetic environment and everyone isn't really passionate... I'm VERY passionate and I feel like being here is draining me of that. (Several people agree.) I'm a big activist and want to keep that up but I feel that while I have been here I've been more involved in activism, I don't think I'm as involved as I could possibly be, despite my location.</p>
<p>There's also very little diversity at my college (other than the fact that it's a women's college.) I also feel like my college will not challenge me as a person. One of the advertisements I've heard someone tell me about (I don't think I've ever received it but I can believe it was sent) was, "Don't like math? You can take an art class instead!" And yes, there is an art class that will fulfill the advanced math requirement. Not kidding. I feel like I'll be strong in the areas I want to be good at here but I don't think they will encourage me to be stronger in other areas, which bothers me a lot. :/</p>
<p>My areas of study are strong (Women's Studies -- obviously lol, and Psychology) but I don't feel like I should stay at this college just because my potential major is strong :/</p>
<p>Joycelene - Your reasons for considering a transfer are solid, imho. And, even though you say you feel you're not as passionate about transferring as others you know.... you sound passionate to me :).</p>
<p>So, it's natural for those who don't hate and detest their current schools to have mixed feelings. Which is what it sounds like for you.</p>
<p>Why not go forward with your transfer applications, see what the results are, and see how your views and feelings stand when you have the results in hand?</p>
<p>SBC's a good school, but sounds like you need to definitely change schools geographically. You need a more academically sound school closer to home. If you want to stay with LACs, there's plenty in the midwest that you might like.</p>
<p>Thanks! Yeah, I just feel very unsure if I'm making the right decision or not because I do have good friends and have had really great times; it just doesn't seem like it's the best suited place for me. I know my parents and friends want me to transfer (for obvious reasons since I'm over half a day's drive); I just wanted a more objective perspective since this is such an important decision.</p>
<p>Haha, you were really close, B0ST0N, especially with what I gave for you to work with (there are also 230498 women's colleges in VA or at least there were); I go to SBC's fierce rival, Hollins University XD Which is, admittedly, the academically weaker one between the two colleges, I will admit.</p>
<p>Does anyone have suggestions for LACs? I only have two colleges (Lawrence and Kalamazoo, which is my top choice) this time around that I think I might like a lot and offer me some merit aid. I would like to try my chances at other schools that won't (Beloit, Carleton, University of Chicago) but I don't really want to since can't spend as much money or time this time around (I applied to 10 colleges first time around. It's particularly devastating just due to the sheer amount of time I had invested in picking the right college and is why I've been so reluctant to admit that I have to reapply all over again.)</p>
<p>I'm no superstar by CC means but I'm fairly academically sound and am competitive at many colleges, provided that they aren't super ridiculous (i.e. Ivies, Little Ivies, other super selective schools haha.) About 29 ACT, 2020 SAT, took 8 APs (7 actual tests though lol), 3.9/3.5 GPA, okay awards, decent ECs and I've only done better in college. Most any place will work with me so long as it's not a total reach and thus impossible to get aid, more or less to get in XDDDDD</p>
<p>Midwest LACs: Cornell College, Lake Forest, Grinnell, DePauw, Wabash, St. Olaf, IWU, Earlham, Knox. You could def. look at all of the Ohio LACs too.</p>
<p>Joycelene, now that you are mentioning merit aid, I just wanted to note -</p>
<p>Merit aid for transfer students is, in general, very very limited. Schools "known for good merit aid" for freshmen often do not offer it to transfers or offer much less.</p>
<p>I know of students who got quality merit aid as freshman acceptees to particular schools, and were enticed by letters/calls from students, alums, faculty. When they didn't go there as freshmen and later applied as transfer, they got nada from same school.</p>
<p>IDK re the particular schools you mentioned, but if merit aid is a MUST, make sure you check their policies and past history of merit aid for transfers. </p>
<p>There are some schools that offer it. If you have to have it, make sure your schools are some of those.</p>
<p>St. Louis University - small u, so may hava a LAC feel - does offer it, if it fits you.</p>
<p>S'okay, B0ST0N, you were really quite close XD I have looked at some of those colleges, thanks again!</p>
<p>Thanks, Andale! The first thing I've looked at in colleges is whether or not they offer aid, so I know whether or not to bother to keep looking haha... It is a very barren field when it comes to aid.</p>
<p>And students who applied and got decent aid as Freshmen got nothing the second time around? Oh, that rules out Knox, then... I was wondering about that, too. Thank you!</p>
<p>I've been looking at Ohio and some of those colleges as well, thanks :D I've looked at College of Wooster but can't seem to figure out whether or not I can apply to any of them... the top scholarship is one I do qualify for but it doesn't say whether or not transfer students do or don't apply to this. Ahhhh.</p>
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Well, just because it happened to some students I know doesn't mean it would specifically happen at any given school, such as Knox. I think you should make phone calls (if you can't find the info on the website) for each school you're considering, such as the College of Wooster top scholarship you mention.. or any others.</p>
<p>Alright, thank you :) I contacted some schools via email but maybe I can talk to them on the phone or during an interview and see whether or not that changes anything?</p>