Hello,
I am currently a junior by credit but a sophomore by actual years I’ve been in Uni. I attend a somewhat prestigious, small, private university that is about 20 miles from me so I live at home and commute. I came in as a Spring transfer in 2019 because I decided to take a semester and work. Anyhow, I have now matriculated well into the school and I am currently in my second semester here. So far, I haven’t really made friends nor have I connected with the campus as a whole. I am involved in quite a few things and I am always friendly and I have “convenient” friends, but no one to really eat dinner with or anything like that. I have tried really hard to like the campus but it’s so difficult and I am not connecting with it like everyone else is and I want to have fun and I want to have a traditional college experience but that doesn’t seem to be the case for me.
I would graduate 2021, graduating a year early, if I stayed here but I genuinely do not like the school and the atmosphere it carries, nor have I had a good experience with any of its governing bodies (enrollment services, financial aid, academic services). I was seriously considering transferring because I really don’t want this to be my college experience–mostly alone and zero adventures, still at home. I am also on the pre-med track and I might have to retake some classes because my credits won’t transfer. I wanted to transfer but I don’t know if it’s a wise decision seeing that I might not get to graduate early since I’ll have to take extra classes for the university core and additional pre-med classes unless I petition.
So I guess my question would be, students who decided to transfer, what was your experience like and do you regret it.
*I live in Texas if that adds any significance.
My current GPA is 3.70 but after this semester’s damage, we’ll see. I do have 2 Ws. Will I even be able to transfer to a different school? Ideally, I would like to attend UT Austin or the University of Houston.