How soon is too soon (thinking of transferring)

Transfer Students
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<p>I am an incoming freshman, but am already feeling that I would like to transfer to a different school next year. In short, I did very poorly in the beginning of my high school career which severely hurt my chances at top universities. I was able to get my act together and am soon going to attend a very highly regarded school, but I feel that it will not offer the intellectual atmosphere I desire. I want to push myself as hard as I possibly can and get the best education possible, and I feel that the school I will attend will not offer me that to the fullest extent. On top of that the school is too big for my taste and, from what I have heard, the social life does not fit my personality.</p>

<p>I will try my hardest to give my current school a chance, but am I sacrificing the best experience possible by keeping the idea of transferring in my head? I intend on joining clubs I am interested in as well as doing my best academically, but I feel like I am doing so under the impression of making myself look better to the schools I want to apply to. When did you start thinking about transferring, and did it hurt your experience at all?</p>

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<p>For many schools, application deadlines aren’t until late winter/early spring. Go to your current school full in, and don’t even think about transferring until winter break, you can’t do anything until then anyway.</p>

3

<p>Perhaps you should take a course or two before you proclaim the school beneath you?</p>

4

<p>Don’t go into it with that attitude. If you go to the school with the feeling that you’re not going to like it, not going to fit in, not going to like the atmosphere etc, that will probably end up being the case.</p>

<p>Go at it with an open mind. You’re going to college! Just be happy about that! Give it a shot, and if it turns out that it’s not the right school for you, then consider transferring.</p>