<p>i'm currently a first year at uchicago, thinking of transferring to CAS. I was admitted last year but turned it down for uchicago, and feel like that might have been the wrong decision. anyway, does it help that i was admitted originally, and also that i go to a school like uchicago as opposed to a state school or the equivalent? just curious...</p>
<p>I think it does help that you were admitted the first time around. I have a friend who was rejected from NYU as a high school senior and was accepted as a transfer.</p>
<p>The more interesting question to me, though, is why you want to transfer out from Chicago and why you think NYU is a better place for you. The schools are very different and have completely different strengths and weaknesses, but I'm wondering if you're not giving Chicago a fair chance.</p>
<p>(I am a student at Chicago, but I would be saying the same thing if you were at NYU and thinking about transferring to Chicago. No college is perfect; not Chicago, not NYU, and if you want to transfer to NYU you should be sure that you have exact reasons why you want to do so, not just that you think NYU is "better").</p>
<p>whoa, i never said i thought nyu was "better." I have many reasons, none of which i'm really to going expound upon in detail, but i think they are legitimate. </p>
<p>-art history major, nyu is equal or better
-family in the west village
-hyde park sucks (though i love all the friends ive made here)
-dont really like the "traditional college atmosphere" at chicago.</p>
<p>You're right-- you never said NYU was better, though I was basing my assumption on what I've seen with other transfer applicants, which is a sort of "grass is greener" syndrome. Somebody who always has in mind an idea of what could be "better" will never be happy, and the solution is not to transfer, but to learn how to be satisfied with what you have in front of you. </p>
<p>(I would have yelled that to my cousin, who, despite being quite successful at Penn, felt obliged to transfer to Harvard, where he was also successful but not any happier than he had been earlier at Penn).</p>
<p>If you feel like your reasons to transfer to NYU are legitimate and that you will be significantly better off at NYU in a way that you're not at Chicago, be my guest.</p>