<p>Hi, so, for the common app transfer essay, I have very specific reasons in mind as to why I want to transfer. However, I'm scared that the essay I want to write may overstep some boundaries.</p>
<p>The school I'm attending now: I love the journalism program I'm a part of and I'm active on campus (newspaper and they have a lot of guest speakers I like going to see). However, there is a heavy drinking culture here. When I applied to schools last year my thought was, "I've worked hard all my life, now I wanna have some fun!" (Since preschool, I've always been placed in rigorous schools as my parents believed that would help me get into a better college.) I wasn't looking very much at academic rigor when applying. I was looking for easy A's and some parties. Now that I'm here, I realize that was a huge, huge mistake, in part because both sides of my family grapple with huge substance abuse issues. My parents immigrated from Guyana, started out with nothing, sacrificed so much and haven't so much as sipped a glass of champagne since they moved, all for me. I realized what a waste my decision was. I'm scared of getting sucked in to alcoholism, I'm scared I can't do better unless I try, and I'm scared of how carelessly I've been treating their sacrifices for me. I want to work harder and earn what they've given me and I want to be in a more academically stimulating environment.</p>
<p>Of course there are other reasons more specific to each of the colleges I'm applying to, but since the common app question is going out to different schools, I thought this would be a good overview of why I wanted to transfer. Does it sound too cliche? Does it make me sound too immature? I feel like this could be taken many different (and equally horrible ways), but what I'm trying to convey is that I made a bad choice health-wise and academically and that I think I can do a lot better somewhere else.</p>