So I’m entering my 2nd year at UCLA, and my 1st year wasn’t a good experience at all. I didn’t like the unfriendly vibe I got from the student body, and I feel like I didn’t fit in as a (for lack of a better description) super-liberal hippie haha. But more importantly, the huge classes and impossibility of getting to know your teachers well at all made UCLA academically unsatisfying too. If my second year isn’t any better, I’ve been thinking of transferring at the end of this year to a LAC. My top choices are Pomona, Claremont McKenna, Haverford, Occidental, and Pitzer. was wondering if any of these would be a realistic possibility.
For a little background info, I have a 3.74 GPA so far at UCLA, volunteer at a pediatric cancer hospital, have a psychology lab assistant position, and am pretty involved in a pediatric cancer club. Regarding high school, I had a 4.35 gpa i think and got a 33 on the ACT. Assuming I keep the GPA around a 3.7 this year too, do you guys think I’d have a shot at transferring to any of the LAC’s I listed, and if not would there be any others you recommend I try instead? Thanks!