<p>Myhay, I’d like to ask you a few questions.</p>
<p>First of all, if you declined a couple schools for financial circumstances, what makes you sure that the Ivy League schools, the UCs, or Georgetown will give you a financial aid package or scholarship package suitable for you?</p>
<p>Second of all, what reasoning do you have that you want to transfer to those schools? Do you like the location better? Do you like their curriculum better? Do you like the prestige of going to an Ivy League better? Or is there something with Drexel you don’t particularly like (you mentioned its not the perfect school)?</p>
<p>I’ve known a ton of people that have come into Drexel with the idea that they’d transfer out to a better school. All these people that had this idea that I ever met had absolutely miserable times here. The simple reasoning is that if you come in with the idea that you don’t like Drexel, you won’t like Drexel. They never got involved in any school activity, club, sports, fraternity, big social interaction, never took advantage of Philadelphia and the tons of things to go to and visit, and the didn’t really put in the extra effort into their classes. When it came down to transferring, they basically screwed themselves over.</p>
<p>However, I will say that transferring from the quarter system is no different than transferring from the semester system. There are tons of people that have transferred just fine from Drexel, and the quarter system did not affect it. Really you have to realize that every college is different and some are lenient with accepting credits and some are not. For example, my friend transferred to the Naval Academy Freshman year and they accepted almost none of his credits. Of course that’s the Naval Academy, and the Naval Academy barely accepts any credits from any other college. Other colleges will accept much more credits, if not all of them if your program is similar.</p>
<p>For example, if you wanted to transfer to the Engineering Route to Business at Austin, you’d almost much more certainly have a better chance of getting into that program and getting more credits transferred if you go into the Business and Engineering Program instead of the Business Administration. (eg: basic math obviously won’t transfer to calculus classes) Why are you doing the Business Admin program anyway if it sounds like you’re more geared towards the B&E program?</p>
<p>You mentioned even transferring your senior year if you could. You have to realize that’s just absolutely outrageous. Not only would you not be able to transfer senior year, but if you do, would you really want to repeat at least 2 more years of the same upper level courses you took? Generally, the more upper level classes you take the harder it is to transfer them. Its easy to transfer your basic Calculus, Physics, Accounting courses, but harder to transfer the courses you take after that.</p>
<p>Look through all my posts and take a look at the opportunities Drexel has. Even though it may not look like the perfect school for you (and it isn’t to many), there are so many ways that you can twist it around to what you want to accomplish. eg: I know guys who really wanted to go to a school in California, just to experience California life. You know you can get a co-op job in LOs Angeles or San Francisco and live in California for 6 months at a time? Or if you want to live in DC like Georgetown, you could get a co-op job easily in or around DC. I almost accepted a co-op position in DC and would have lived with my friends at GWU. You can also use Drexel to study abroad, or even co-op abroad in different countries.</p>
<p>The last point I’m going to make is don’t underestimate the co-op program. I’m friends with a kid 10 times smarter than me at Wharton, with a much higher GPA, and I’ve gotten job offers from companies that he can’t even get an interview with.</p>
<p>I’d recommend coming into Drexel with the attitude that you’d like to experience the co-op program, get involved in student life, experience Philadelphia, and give it all you got. There are plenty of people that keep their options open with transferring (and I think everyone should), but there’s a difference between keeping your options open and saying that you’re coming to Drexel with the sole intent of transferring out. This will screw yourself over in the long run, whether you transfer out from Drexel or not, and if you do try to transfer you’ll have much more limited options.</p>
cause I think Drexel is rich.</p>