should i transfer? please help

<p>i am currently a freshman and boston university. this wasn't my first choice school, however, it had the best communications program, which is why i chose to come here. when i was looking at colleges i had one criteria: there had to be a campus. i know BU doesn't really have a campus but i figured that it wasn't too bad and that i would learn to get used to it. however, i hate that i feel like i'm not part of the school. i almost went to indiana university, which has a beautiful campus and amazing school spirit. when i visited last year i immediately got a feeling of school pride. boston is an amazing city and i love it here but i feel like i am more a citizen of the city than i am a student at the school.
BU is also very academically challenging. not only do i have a massive workload that is keeping me in the library during my free time but they make it so hard for you to do well here.
currently i am in the communications program but have been looking at indiana's programs and see that they have a sports marketing and management major, which is what i am really interested in. i love sports and this major combines sports with communications.
i like it here but don't love it. i applied as a transfer to indiana for spring semester because i dont think i can be here anymore. i get such an anxious feeling here that i should be somewhere else and that i should be enjoying it more.
many people have told me that spring semester is way better and i will love it way more but i don't think i can wait. a fear of mine is that if i stay the whole year and still don't like it and want to transfer, transferring as a sophmore will be harder in the sense that it will be more difficult to meet people.</p>

<p>any advice for a confused freshman?</p>

<p>You may want to give BU the full year and see if you feel the same way. You could send out applcations for the fall and see how you feel by that time. If you still feel it's a bad fit at BU, then you will have a lot of options. However, just applying to one school is very limiting. This is from a thread on CC with some good options for communication majors:</p>

<p>Here are some schools with relatively large communications/journalism programs</p>

<p>university, SAT 75th percentile, total bachelors graduates, number of communications graduates, proportion of communications graduates</p>

<p>NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 1500 1999 380 0.19
BOSTON UNIVERSITY 1390 3991 723 0.18
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY 1280 1549 247 0.16
PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY 1310 800 124 0.16
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY 1290 1604 220 0.14
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY 1320 2798 380 0.14
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY 1240 7783 1039 0.13
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN 1340 8917 1187 0.13
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY 1350 1291 161 0.12
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY 1300 1397 174 0.12
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER 1230 931 116 0.12
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA 1280 4086 471 0.12
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY 1290 2296 249 0.11
INDIANA UNIVERSITY-BLOOMINGTON 1220 6172 661 0.11
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER 1280 5196 574 0.11
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA 1240 4015 437 0.11
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 1410 4492 427 0.1
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 1360 8574 844 0.1
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI 1350 2155 205 0.1
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 1440 4344 429 0.1
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY 1410 1000 101 0.1
BOSTON COLLEGE 1410 2223 200 0.09
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY-MAIN CAMPUS 1290 9134 854 0.09</p>