<p>Hey guys this is my first post on this website so sorry if I made any mistakes..I am a transfer student at a 4-year school that's about 2 hours away from home. Before this I went to a community college for 2 years as a full-time student and was also working full time. I loved my independence, and I loved living at home, (seems like a contradiction but I actually feel more dependent now than ever before). Now I am living in a dorm and it's really getting to me. Recently I decided that I wanted to change my major, but what I want to major in now isn't available at this school, but it's available at a school closer to home. I have a pretty good idea that I will transfer there eventually, but I don't know if I should transfer after the fall semester, or after the spring semester. Part of me wants to stick it out here in the dorms for a year just to say I did it, but part of thinks that will be a waste of time and money, not to mention my comfort and happiness. When I transfer I will be commuting anyway, and that's something that I also prefer. What are your opinions?..Stick it out, or transfer after the first semester?</p>
<p>Transfer sooner rather than later.</p>
<p>If you are sure about this, transfer ASAP. College is so expensive – not just in the cost of going, but the cost of earnings you give up every semester you are sitting in a classroom. If you are certain, start looking into the transfer immediately. No one (really!) cares if you “stick it out” if you are going to transfer anyway. If you just didn’t like the dorm living, I would tell you to stay put. But if your major isn’t offered… you gotta move ASAP.</p>
<p>If you’re confident that you will transfer eventually, do it as soon as you can. There’s no benefit in staying at a school that you want to leave eventually, unless you aren’t able to transfer to the school you want to go to now. Don’t stay because you feel like you have something to prove or you just want to say that you did–those are really bad reasons to spend that much money to go to and live at this school.</p>
<p>Transfer as soon as you can. There’s no point in waiting an extra semester if you don’t have to (or want to).</p>
<p>I 100% guarantee you there are unforeseen consequences for delaying transfer. For me, it was not doing undergrad research sooner and thus weakening my grad school apps and not realizing that it was important to get my writing classes out of the way ASAP. For you, it may be…don’t know. That’s why it’s unforeseen. Start emailing your future school’s advisors now.</p>