Should i go to AU in hopes of transferring out?

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<p>I have no bone to pick about AU or Georgetown; I know one student at AU who’s very happy there. Not my kid.</p>

<p>I will, however, address the original question: One should not go anywhere with the express intention of transferring out. Three reasons for this:

  1. Focusing on transferring stops you from finding another school that you might really like. While a wonderful school, Georgetown isn’t the only one at which you could be happy. Broaden your horizons a bit and you could find that other school.
  2. If you go into a school with the attitude that you won’t like it, you’ll be right. You’ll spend at least one miserable year there. Is that something you really want to do?
  3. If you’re really unhappy at the school you’re going to due to your initial attitude (see #2), you will be sabotaging your own efforts to get superior grades that would allow the transfer. The mindset is very different than that of a student who goes in positively, and then finds that a school is not to his/her liking and decides to transfer. You are cutting yourself off from the ability to learn and grow, which is detrimental on so many levels.</p>

<p>Now back to your regularly scheduled argument.</p>