Possibly Transferring out of Bucknell: I know what I want, but should I try to get it?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Bucknell University
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<p>To start this out I’m going to say Bucknell is an amazing school; it has great academics (especially engineering), a friendly and good looking student body, and an extremely active social scene considering its location.</p>

<p>However, I knew nothing about the place when I decided to go here, and I knew nothing about colleges in general, and now I’m starting to see where a little more research would have helped me out. While I’ve been able to find a bunch of great people as friends and I’m doing better than I ever have before in classes, I can’t help but feel like this isn’t the right place for me. First off part of the problem is I’m not into the party scene, at all, which makes up a huge amount of the social life here. At first I assumed all colleges had about the same amount of partying, but after visiting some of my friends in other schools I’m seeing the beauty of schools that aren’t “party schools”. I’ve been working on finding more and more things to do on weekends besides parties, and trying to convince so my friends to join me, but the time I spent at the other schools (specifically SUNY Purchase) was just so much better and made me actually feel happy about the weekend. As a small note that of something else I enjoyed, it was such a good breath of fresh air to be away from some of the preppiness at Bucknell. I came from an extremely preppy area and so going right back into that scene wasn’t exactly what I was looking for in college.</p>

<p>So originally when I applied to schools I had no clue what I wanted, now I know what I’m looking for, a relatively small university in a large city (so that I can get more involved in a lot of things outside of campus too) that, like Bucknell is known for its academics, but isn’t as known for its party culture. I’ve been enguraged by my sister that who had a similar situation her first year in college to consider transferring because she also feel into the “the problem is college, not this college” mindset, however says that it’s not true and that being truly happy at a college is possible.</p>

<p>Anyone who went through a similar situation as me, did transferring actually help your situation or are these problems that I would face everywhere regardless of where I go?</p>

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<p>I’m currently a freshman at Bucknell, and I feel almost EXACTLY the same way you do about the university. I think everything about Bucknell except the social atmosphere is just fine, so I think the best thing to do would be to look at other nearby liberal arts colleges. I’m transferring to Susquehanna if their math department’s any good and my loneliness persists at Bucknell. I visited it and it is extremely similar to BU facility-wise, but without the huge party scene. But if you want to go to a school in the city, Swarthmore in Philadelphia comes to mind. You could use this college search site: <a href=“College Search - BigFuture | College Board”>https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/college-search&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Hopefully we can both escape from Party School Purgatory! Good luck!</p>