<p>I am currently a first semester freshman at Rutgers and every day I like it less here. I have met a bunch of people but I feel that something is missing up here and I really loved udel when i visited it last year. </p>
<p>I have a few friends that go there and they all love it.</p>
<p>I was accepted off the waitlist, and obviously i turned it down for Rutgers. </p>
<p>If i keep a solid (3.0+) GPA for this semester... anybody have any insight on chance of transfer for spring 2011 semester?</p>
<p>I am in the engineering program here, but do not plan on it for udel... hopefully something business oriented but as of now i will most likely go in undeclared because the business school is closed for transfers halfway through the year.</p>
<p>I forget my high school GPA but i think it was around a 3.65 UW and a 1910 SAT</p>
<p>I would suggest, if you have not done so already, that you contact the admissions office at UD to get some advice as to how to procede. As you were already accepted at UD you might find that you may not be required to complete a whole new application for transfer (or at least maybe you won’t have to pay the transfer application fee). They already have all of the info that they generally would require a transfer applicant to submit for applicants with less than 60 credits at another school. I would suspect that as long as your GPA at RU was above 3.0 (of course the higher the better) that your chances of getting into UD would be fairly good for an undeclared major.</p>
<p>While it sounds like you have made up your mind I would suggest that you might still want to give it a little more time at RU to see if you might feel more comfortable there after a little longer period of time. Of course you could still procede with your transfer application and should you change your mind you could always cancel it. Maybe you could also visit your friends at UD to get a better feel for what it is like to matriculate at UD. RU and UD are very similar schools academically, but RU is much larger and spaced out over multiple campuses. You can easily feel lost there until you get your bearings. I am a Rutgers College graduate and my wife is a graduate of Douglass College so I feel that I have some sense of your concerns. On the other hand our daughter just graduated from UD with her BSN in 5/10. She choose UD over RU because it was a smaller school and she just felt more comfortable there when she visited. She feels she made the right decision and loved her time at UD. Best of luck to you wherever you continue your education.</p>
<p>thank you for the comment, i really appreciate it…</p>
<p>Yes, I will give it more time.</p>
<p>Another thing I am worried about is if I apply for transfer, get accepted, then figure I should just give RU a full year, end up hating it more, then wanting to apply for transfer again… They can only give you so many chances! Haha</p>
<p>But I will look into everything you said, thanks again</p>
<p>As the previous poster said, call the admissions office. My daughter transferred to UDEL after hating her freshman year at Northeastern. The first half of her sophomore was a little rough going until she gained her bearings, but then she came to love it.</p>
<p>Also ask the admissions office if you are accepted for transfer is it possible to defer admission to the following fall. Some colleges allow it, others don’t. Be sure to indicate that you would be attending college while deferring admission.</p>
<p>It is still early in the fall semester, so things can turn around there.</p>
<p>I would cover my bases and apply for transfer. You can always withdraw your application if you change your mind before you receive the answer.</p>
<p>If you already applied to UDEL, they have all the high school information they need. All you would have to send them is your college transcript and a letter of recommendation. My daughter asked one of her high school teachers to write hers because she didn’t feel any of her college profs knew her well enough. The transfer app is pretty straightforward as is the essay - ‘Tell us why you want to transfer to UDEL’ (at least that what it was when my daughter applied)</p>