I currently attend the University of Notre Dame in South Bend Indiana. As someone who didn’t have completely outstanding grades in high school, I was honestly suprised when I was admitted into the university. I only had about a 3.6 GPA and got a 30 on my ACT after taking it twice. ND was the best school I got into and offered me the most financial aid, and thus I chose it. As for reasons I am considering transferring, there are many. I am not Catholic or the slightest bit religious. I do not come from a financially well off family like it seems most other students do. I don’t plan on having an extremely high paying job in the future, and have no interest in becoming a doctor or lawyer or anything of the sort. Though I am notextremely politically oriented the school is very conservative and I consider myself more of a liberal. I am very close to my family so being away from home has been difficult. I have a few friends but I feel depressed a large portion of the time. This has led to me not having any motivation to keep up with my studies and it seems that all I want to do is sleep all day rather than be social or do work. My grades last semester were not good (two b’s and 3 c’s) and I suspect this semester’s grades to be worse. I am not overly obsessed with grades as it seems many students here are. Basically the one thing keeping me here is the fear that I won’t be successful later in life and I will regret my decision to leave. I’m also worried how my parents will react. I know my mother understands and supports me but my father was definitely encouraging me to go here and I feel he would try to convince me to stay. Does anyone have any advice?
I’m not sure what you’d accomplish by changing schools. It sounds like many of the issues you’re having would follow you wherever you go. Perhaps you’d be better off taking a leave of absence for a semester. Get a job and figure out what you really want to do. All you’ve said is what you don’t want to do . . . but you haven’t in any way indicated what you DO want to do.
And if you’re depressed, deal with it - see a doctor and figure out what to do about it. Ignoring it will NOT make it go away!