<p>I'm a sophmore at a small state university in Missouri and I've always tossed around the idea of transferring. The following might be a rant, but it might help if you wanna give some advice.</p>
<p>*Freshman year, I would say, was sub par. I said to give sophomore year a shot and so far it has turned out to be a meh, not extremely horrible but not interesting either. </p>
<p>*When I applied to colleges, location wasn't a big deal. I always thought that it would be the people that would make the experiences and not the place. I still feel this way, but at the same time can't help but think that maybe somewhere in the city or somewhere bigger would be a better idea for me. The reason I say this is because on some level am a loner and if I don't have someone to chill with and just lay back that's fine I'll end up wandering around exploring random things. This can easily be done in a city or a bigger campus since there's such a huge random variety of places to wander about. However, this is much harder to do on a small campus in a small town. I've wondered around town and whatnot, but I'm all wondered out. I just want to wander around the city or a large campus and come upon something a little interesting and just chill and observe (if this makes any sense.) </p>
<p>*However, I always thought that I would hate large colleges, I'm talking over 10,000 or 15,000 students, but now I don't know. They say you get so much more interaction at small colleges because of the teacher to student ration but I can't seem to find that true. My classes will have 20-30 students in them and professor interaction seems to depend on you, if you make the effort to go to their office hours than there will will interaction if not then no. I feel the same is true for a large college, if you go to their office hours they'll know you if not then no.</p>
<p>In most of my classes the students don't speak up and never answer the prof questions. This is college and I feel as if the prof shouldn't have to grudgingly pull answers out of us. I just wanna feel as if we are interested in the material of the teacher and want to learn it - I'm not asking to be chirpy all the time. </p>
<p>FACTORS:</p>
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<li>U of Chicago would be a great fit for me and I applied to it senior year of high school and got in, but the atmosphere is way too brutal. I'm pre-med and I've talked to so many people that said they had a blast there but they're GPA were so much lower than they could have been somewhere else. I get half off of tuition.</li>
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<p>*Money: If I had gone to the top 20 or top 50 places I feel as if I would have integrate in better, but money is a factor. I don't care what others say I'm just not willing to pay 40,000 per year for undergrad and then have tons of debt after college and acquire more when going to grad school or possibly med school. </p>
<p>I don't know what the hell do to. Do you guys have any recs of whether I should apply and if where. I like the Chicago area - I live there and I was thinking of U of I too. Any other places in cities or anywhere where I could maybe get some scholarship money???</p>
<p>Where should I apply if I should apply. I might just deal with this place for the next 2 years.</p>
<p>Oh, yeah that's another thing. I'm a sophomore, but I'm a junior by credits. I came in with a year worth of credits.</p>
<h2>College Record</h2>
<p>GPA 3.9
Chem Major
some activities</p>
<h2>H.S. Record</h2>
<p>GPA: 3.83
Rank: top 3 % out of 7 hundred and something
AP: lots of APs 5 and 4. one or two 3s
ACT: 29 (low I know)
SATII: 740 math IIC, 680 bio
pretty impressive activities list actually.</p>
<p>I don't know, anything else I should say????</p>