<p>I applied to Northwestern and auditioned for the music school and was so intent on getting in that i bought a tshirt (not that i PLANNED on getting in but i really wanted to.)</p>
<p>It was my dream school. Come march 29, I typed in all my information on the website only to read that I was rejected. Afterwards, I felt kind of ... devastated b/c i couldn't see myself at any other college. ever.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, time has passed, and it's now june. I'm headed off to Tulane this fall, and I'm really excited. But, somehow, I still feel like I belong at NU. Should I take action or just not do anything and accept the fact I'm going to Tulane or does it mean that I can transfer b/c i'm not married? I'm slightly confused and getting a little stressed about the whole college process when everybody is excited to be going away...to a new place..of their dreams...when in fact i didn't even know of tulane till december :-</p>
<p>Jeremy,
I've read some of your other posts, and you do seem to be stressing yourself. Why don't you enjoy what's right in front of you and take a vacation from worrying about the future. Give it until Thanksgiving. The old saying in college admissions is that by Thanksgiving all kids are in their first choice school. Evev if this is an exaggeration, put this out of your mind for a while. One of my son's mentors suggested he read THE ALCHEMIST by Coelho. The message here is to trust the process. S found it helpful.</p>
<p>heres what you do. Make the best time you can at Tulane and get the BEST grades you possibly can. Then if you still want to transfer you can if you want.</p>
<p>Agree with mythmom AND burgler, with a slight amendment. Do the best you can (which you should do anyway), go to Tulane with an eye to really enjoying it. Don't give transfer a thought until January (that is my only amendment to mythmom's advice). That will be plenty of time to give your experience the best chance and plenty of time to do transfer app if you want to. They are usually do in March and January is plenty of time to do what you need and ask profs for recommendations.</p>
<p>i agree! i have to admit that i definitely didn't give my first school a chance (i felt bribed into going there because they offered me too much money to turn down, and my dream school was stingy). while i still maintain that i did NOT enter it with the intentions of transferring, i know that i couldn't have given it a completely fair chance. transferring was the best thing I could have done -- i am so happy where i am now! -- but i will admit, my first school didn't have a fair chance.</p>
<p>If i were you, i would try to NOT think about the prospect of transferring, at least not at first. focus on your excitement! enter tulane as though it will be the place that you will spend your next four years at. Do your best so that you can try to transfer if you want to, but also do your best for yourself :) And then if transferring becomes an issue, you'll handle it. But don't enter expecting it to become an issue. Good luck!!! :D</p>
<p>Thank you! I'm just kind of confused. I thought everything was going to work out exactly how it was suppose dto. I guess for NOW it did. ultimately, not quite sure :-</p>
<p>i went to a school for a year and a half knowing full well the entire time that i was preparing for a future transfer to cornell. i didnt think it was going to happen at first because of bad high school grades, but i followed my dream and got it done. i now attend cornell although i dearly miss my previous school which was not on the same playing field as cornell in terms of prestige. i guess what i'm trying to say is that if you really want something, especially with transfer admissions, you can make it happen. but, you have to make sure it is the step you really want to take. you have to understand that college is the best four year of your life. you dont get those years back unless you go onto further schooling, but understand that the undergraduate experience is second to none. if you honest and truly believe that you should be at northwestern, take full advantage of the experience around you at tulane even though you know that you will be moving on in the future. from experience, do not think of your first school as leverage just so you can get into a better one. the last thing you want is to be sitting in evanston 2 years from now clamouring for the past in new orleans. </p>
<p>like i said, follow your heart. you have a good amount of time to think and an amazing school like tulane as a starting block.</p>
<p>thanks all!! BTW, is this whole transfer halfway through the year into a winter semester (i.e. into NU's winter quarter and/or BU's winter semester) applicable to freshmen , or do freshmen have to wait an entire year no matter what?</p>
<p>You'd have to check Northwestern's website or call them to find that out. But if I were you, I'd wait for a fall transfer. I don't think it's wise to focus on transfer apps as early in your freshman year as you would have to in order to try for a winter quarter transfer.</p>
<p>NU also probably requires at least 1 year of college work to transfer, which would mean that you would have to wait for the fall transfer deadline.</p>
<p>My advice, see how you like it. Tulane is a great university, and you should try and enjoy your time there. If you really don't fit in, or Northwestern is just THAT much of a fit for you, then transfer. </p>
<p>I'm more of a worrier, so I suggest starting Christmas break, thinking if you want to transfer or not. you'll start to know as you get near Christmas, and you should probably get a professor's recommendation, as well as sorting out your grades. </p>
<p>Don't even give it consideration until after you've done a semester at Tulane. Chances are you'll like Tulane and won't see a point in transferring.</p>
<p>I was in a similar situation after high school. I had friends going to Notre Dame, Stanford, UChicago, etc. and I was headed 15 minutes away from home and right down the street from my high school to the University of Pittsburgh. So what did I do? I had the summer of my life. I didn't think about school or anything else for the next 2 months. When it was time to go to college, I went, but not with the intention of staying. I went on a business trip. It lasted 8 months. Now, I'm at the place I always wanted to be, Notre Dame.</p>
<p>OH GOD! not university of pittsburgh. i too live like 15 mins from it. everybody goes there from my h.s. lol. i didn't even apply w/in 8 hours driving distance from my home haha.</p>
<p>I was actually in the exact situation you are in now, except with Brown University instead of Northwestern. </p>
<p>I went to Tulane my freshman year because it was the only school I got into. I too was devestated. But I went into it with an open mind, even though I knew I wanted to transfer. Do that -- go into it with an open mind, otherwise you'll spend your whole time there begrudging the fact that you are there and won't enjoy all that Tulane has to offer. Tulane is a very good school and New Orleans is amazing. In the end, it wasn't the school for me and I transferred to Brown, which I love. I still do miss parts of Tulane and New Orleans though. </p>
<p>Long story short, don't bum out too much. Tulane is a great place to spend your freshman year. You'll learn a lot and have a VERY good time. And you can always transfer if you don't like it, and when you're at NU, it'll be like you've been there all along! </p>
<p>Another thing -- don't put off the thought of transferring until January, because you need to cultivate relationships with profs for your reccomendations. This is a good thing to do regardless of whether you are transferring anyways. Just don't let it cloud your thoughts or prevent you from enjoying yourself.</p>