I have technically decided but could still back out and have been on the fence this entire time about transferring. I am a sophomore at UW Madison and am thinking of transferring/already sort of did into a biological sciences program at UMN. The main reason is I feel I might be happier at MN with that friend group I have there from home. I have friends at Wisconsin but I feel sometimes during the tonite year I just felt some of my friend group just wasn’t friends I truly care to have long term and I might be happier socially at MN. BUT the problem is academically I do well at Wisconsin and I think it’s a better school (I’m pre Med). I am not sure if leaving for social reasons is a good idea. I’ve thought about it a lot and still on the fence. No real wrong answer but so I leave a superior academic school to be with a different friend group? It’s basically either stay for academics or leave and transfer for new friend group. The program I’d be going into at MN is College of Biological Sciences btw if anyone is familiar with it.
You are in your second year and as a pre-med, you have more years ahead of you. You need to focus on your primary goal in going to college - to get a degree and become a doctor.
Do not leave a program where you are doing well and which you deem to be superior. Spend your free time with your friend group and build additional groups. As you grow and move through the next phases of your life, you must keep your focus. You will change, your individual friends will change, people will come in and out and back in to your life.
I would stay put. You need recommendations from your teachers for medical school. Stay focused on your goal and make a plan for how you are going to prepare a strong application for med school because there is no guarantees of admission. (there are no safety schools) Friends change from semester to semester. Those you got to know freshman year and who you keep up with in senior year maybe different.
Get out of your comfort zone and make an effort to get involved and meet new people.