Hi,
I am looking to apply from a top 5 Ivy League school to Columbia. I have several reasons for transferring. One of which is the fact that I have lived in this city that my college is in now for the last 18 years. My academic reason for transfer is that the school I am now does not have a Major in Human Rights whereas Columbia does. There are ways to study it where I am, but they are limited and the support is not there. There are also no classes explicitly for that major whereas those do exist at Columbia.
How should I balance these two reasons in my essay and is that a legitimate enough academic reason to transfer?
You did know all of this when you applied to this college last year, and when you accepted the place. Moreover, odds are that is within a 2 hour drive of your current university. You have almost certainly been to New York a few times. When my adventurous collegekid was ‘wanting to experience something new’ she applied to colleges in 6 countries, across 3 continents, not the next state over.
After the feedback from your other thread, you seem to have found a major that exists at Columbia but not at your current university- one that is so important that you need to transfer for the major, but that you have just discovered (at the school that doesn’t offer it) in the 1 month that you have been at college?
Ime, sticking to the truth is often more productive, and just guessing here, but I suspect that what you ** really** want is the one that got away. IF that is the case, why not just own it? "I am in a fabulous college, but for all that it offers, the things that I initially wanted from Columbia (insert whatever it really was), are still what I want / the challenge of catching up to my classmates on the Core will be a positive / etc / and now have I have some experience of college / etc/. and am even more sure.