<p>I originally intended to go to my local community college and get my basic classes done, but by the time I started college, I realized that, mainly because my dad has to work so much and not being able to get a car, I won't be able to take those basic classes. Instead, I decided to major in computer science and get my associate's in that and take most of the classes online. Considering the fact that I have a limited form of transportation, this may not be possible in the amount of time that I wish (2 years), and I also wish to change my major to art and transfer to another college, after next year....</p>
<p>I guess what I'm really asking is if I could transfer to another school and change my major at the same time; by some time next school year, I should have a car, but I can't change my major to art right now because the art program doesn't offer online classes, and online classes are my main, and almost only, way of taking classes. </p>
<p>PLEASE help me any way that you think you can. I'm open to suggestions; I just want help.</p>
<p>i think you should take any online classes you have access to this year, and next year when you get a car you could take the classes that aren't offered online.</p>
<p>take the bus to school? find another ride? give people gas money? sounds like money wasted in my opinion if you are just gonna take classes only to change majors. you are better off taking off school and just working. you arent benefitting by taking all courses that arent getting you anywhere with your major.</p>
<p>You should consider where you want to transfer to, and contact them to ask them what their policy on transfers and majors is. Schools have different policies.</p>
<p>You need to tell them 1) What year you propose to transfer into. I'm not really clear where you are in that or where you will be. I doubt a school would let you transfer into junior year with a whole new major, but maybe they would if you wanted to enter as a sophomore. 2) What credits you have and what you are proposing to carry with you.</p>
<p>Some schools let you build your course in individual units. You could maybe ask about that and see if you could do the units that can be done online first and then once you have transport do the ones that require you to be at the school itself.</p>
<p>Is there no-one you could catch a ride with, even for part of a year, until you are able to get your own car? You could offer to contribute to gas and share your ride once you have a car too.</p>
<p>well, there arent too many people near me that could give me a ride and the closest ones would have to go quite a way outta their way to pick me up, which means more gas money, and I'm not necessarily rollin in da dough, if u know what I mean; crap, the only reason I can even fathom goin to school is cause of financial aid. I've thought about sittin out next semester and waiting till i got a car, but there are 2 problems with that: 1. I dont know what my financial aid would say about that (Pell grant), and 2. I dont know what my DAD would say about that, since I wouldnt be able to, say, go get a job or something similar; I'd basically be a stay-at-home bum, which my dad wouldnt take. I've contacted the school I wish to transfer to (SFA university in Texas), but I havent heard back from them yet. The more and more I think about it, the more scared i get...</p>
<p>You can't major in art & take online classes, and I don't see the point in majoring in computer science and then switching to art later on. You will have to take some basic courses (English, Math, etc.) no matter what your major is. Those may be able to be taken online - and if so, you could start out taking those classes online this Fall while you work on getting a car for the next semester.</p>
<p>Well my town is pretty small, so they dont have a bus I can take; I'm not sure if I can take the basic courses online: the college I go to is a satellite, so to speak, of the main college, which is pretty far away, so I dont know if it would be possible for me to do it; I also think the main college is the only place I could possibly take the basic courses online, but I dont know what I could do about the tests, which Im sure I'd have to go up to the college for. By the way, I am appreciating your help guys. You really are helpin me out and I'm glad i found this site.</p>
<p>If you are doing the courses online, does it matter how far away the college is? For the tests, if they are not that frequent, couldn't you call in a favor and chip in for gas just for those few days?</p>
<p>Heh, if I have the money. I think, if I'm able to do that, that my dad, who is the only person I know who could take me that far since my other friends dont go there, could do it, so I (hopefully, lol) wouldn't have to give him gas money. IF i could do that, I'd have to figure out some way to make it to where every single class I take next semester would be on line and, if I'm lucky enough, I could have a car and just go from there. There's jsut the fact that I may possibly have to take some classes at the college; I don't have a way of finding that out yet.</p>
<p>Based on your sistuation, I would just take whatever I can online. I have taken online classes, and the teachers know that a lot of students chose to take them because they can not physically be there. They are understanding, and will probably work with you when it comes to taking tests (we can take them if we have someone supervising I believe). I guess this is the only option you have, although working would not be that bad of an idea. You can work now, and build up the money for a car/gas and then catch up in the summer.</p>
<p>As for changing major when you transfer; I would talk with a counsoler/advisor about that. Check with the university you are going to, and see what the the pre-recs for your major is (they will probably have this info on their website). I would make sure you finish your degree (especially if you are going to a public instate school), and your pre-recs because it makes it a lot easier to transfer (and its cheaper). It might be possible that you can change your major, although it would take more time considering that you will have to change your degree from a science one to a liberal or fine arts one. That means more time and money, unless you haven't taken that many courses yet OR the ones you have taken overlap.</p>