<p>Currently, I am a sophomore at a top 20 college and I am considering transferring to college a lot closer to home next semester. The reason I would be transferring is to be closer to home, because it seems like every week I am homesick. I have great friends, good grades, and I love my classes at my current college, but this college is on the other side of the country from my home. </p>
<p>If I do transfer, I will transfer to an unranked/average college back home. To add to the problem, the college I am currently attending is one of the top business programs in the country (I plan to pursue a marketing major) and the college I would transfer to has an unranked business program. </p>
<p>Please tell me your thoughts on whether I should transfer.<br>
I want to make sure that if I do transfer that I am not going to make a big mistake. </p>
<p>Honestly, just stick it out for 2 more years. I mean these 2 years determines the school’s name on your diploma/degree. This top 20 school can provide great connections for job opportunities instead of your average in-state school. I mean if you’re mentally healthy enough to get good grades, then just suck it up for 2 more years or you might regret it for the rest of your life (knowing you can have gotten a better job at your current school). Also think of the effort you put in high school to get into this top 20 school, yet now you want to transfer (where you could’ve worked less hard or slacked off in HS). Just don’t transfer. My advice is to apply to top-30,40 schools around your home state so it doesn’t feel like you wasted all that effort in HS for nothing</p>
<p>I would stick it out. Maybe find a way to get home a little bit more often, like an extra 3 day weekend in the middle of each semester. Try to analyze what seems to be missing for you and try to come up with a substitute activity or way of connecting that at least fills that “empty” feeling somewhat. </p>
<p>I agree that going to a no-name school is not a good alternative if you are capable of sticking it out.</p>
<p>Everyone gets home sick! I have a friend who is Mexican and gay, he went to an Ivy in the east after high school in California. He got very home sick, but he made an effort to meet people and stick it out. He now is able to say he is an Ivy grad. Don’t give up just yet!!</p>
<p>“home” is always difficult to define. In my life, and perhaps in yours as well, I changed “home” many times, from the other side of the globe to USA, New York to California and several places in between. If you feel “home” sick now, wait until you get out of school, you may be being hired by one location and be moved to other location by order of the company. They once translate IBM into I have Been Moved. </p>
<p>Stick it out and you will be experiencing more of it after you got of the school.</p>
<p>Is there a semester or year exchange program that you could participate in that would get you closer to your home? That way you would not be looking at a whole three and a half more years so far away from where you’d rather be.</p>
<p>As long as your grades aren’t completely suffering, try to stay. If you want to be successful, it’s going to mean that you probably WILL have to leave your own home, so you might as well get used to it now. Besides, soon enough, maybe your college WILL become your home. Maybe try to join more clubs?</p>
<p>If home sick is the only reason you need to transfer. I would agree with others, stick with what you’ve got. Marketing people are very picky on the school you go to when you are applying for the first job. The top 20 school will help you to get in a good company and get you a good career to start.</p>
<p>I would try to stay where you’re at. Everybody gets homesick, but it’s pretty important to be able to get away from home and stick it out. It helps you be more independent AND you’ll be getting a fantastic name on your diploma, which will probably help you out in the long run.</p>