<p>Hi. I'm currently a freshman in a top Ivy League school and I would like to hear some advice. </p>
<p>Since choosing my school, my passions have changed. While I initially planned to double major in a science and a humanities (which made my school a great choice for me), over the summer while teaching kids programming I became incredibly passionate about engineering and programming. I've always liked math and "techy" subjects, but I guess you could say that I had always been afraid to accept the fact that I like engineering because I naively thought that engineering was not as good of a major as economics, etc. (I was naive and stupid, yes, I know). I've looked into engineering a lot and with my current classes, and I'm so much more fascinated by math/physics/intro to engineering class than by my humanities classes (and I have to say that I've looked through tons of humanities textbooks, sat through various classes, etc) and my true calling is definitely in math and engineering. The current environment and atmosphere of my school is definitely not me, and the class options for engineering are also pretty limited. I am much more down to earth, quirky, and just more... "nerdy" in the math/science way than my current environment. I don't particularly like my school atmosphere much and I miss having nerdy, very techy, programming-loving people (who weren't all necessarily my friends) around me. I know that I could technically graduate from my current school with a major in engineering, but I feel like I would not be very happy simply because of the lack of engineering majors here (I have met some engineering majors but they truly are a minority...)
I have been contemplating a transfer for the past few days, but I'm afraid that I will simply accept my situation as is and learn to just "deal with it" because I am the type to just "suck it up and deal with" my problems and ignore my happiness in the process.</p>
<p>Should I seriously consider a transfer for next fall? If I am to do so, I know that Carnegie Mellon (one of my options for a transfer) has a program that I simply love and a fantastic atmosphere that I would feel much more comfortable in. I know transfers out of ivy leagues are not very common, which is why you could say that I am somewhat hesitant/having doubts about transferring even though I know that I would be much more happier at a more technical school.</p>