Here is my predicament…
I am a CC transfer student with 62 credits (I completed and Associate of Arts degree). I am looking to transfer to a much better school than I am currently set to go to. Will it be a waste of time and money to get 12 to 15 credits at the school I am set to attend? Should I just wait until the winter semester? Please help!
If you are very unhappy with the place you are scheduled to attend this fall, then contact them and ask to defer your enrollment for a semester or a year, and apply to a new set of colleges and universities. It really, truly is OK to take a semester or year off while you do that.
But I’ve got to ask why you didn’t transfer to “a much better school” in the first place. Did you not think to apply to any, or did you apply and get rejected? If you did apply and get rejected, what makes you believe that you will be able to be admitted now?
I chose a school that was close to home and would be cheapest for me. That, along with the idea of “I’ll just work hard and stand out and I’ll land a good job” convinced me to just apply for this one school. The more research I have done (now that it is summer and actually have time to research schools), I am realizing if I get my bachelors from the school I am about to attend, it will be extremely hard to get a good job.
So now, I am deeply regretting committing to this school. I already have the maximum amount of transfer credits, so I am having a difficult time seeing a point in even attending, although it kills me to take a semester off.
Since you didn’t do any research and simply applied to the closest place that you also assumed would be the most affordable, then you have every reason to take a semester or more off and apply to a wider selection of places. Perhaps it will turn out that the only affordable option is the current one (in which case you will just have to work hard there so that you can get a good job after graduation), or perhaps you will have at least one affordable option that is more to your liking.
You have little (if anything) to lose by taking the time off, and you possibly have much to gain.