Transferring in the middle of 11th grade?

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<p>I'm not a parent, but I felt that this was the most appropriate forum.</p>

<p>I'm currently a junior in high school & the 2nd semester has just started. I've been wanting to transfer high schools for over a year now after constant bullying & alienation, which extremely affected my grades & my overall GPA. My GPA freshman year was a 3.7 & last year, a 2.9 (& that was weighted). This year has been somewhat easier because I suppose I got used to it, but I am overall very unhappy.</p>

<p>My parents were very against me transferring schools, but my dad recently got an amazing offer on an apartment. I'm a bit worried about transferring to another school in the middle of the most important year of high school.</p>

<p>I'm going to go ahead & stay with my grandparents (who live in the same town where our new place is) while my parents handle everything so that I can begin adjusting, & that would be over winter break, so I would start at my new school at the beginning of January. Do you think the time of the move will somehow affect my grades & my chances of getting into college?</p>

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<p>You can’t be doing worse, right? You are very happy at your current school and it is affecting your study. </p>

<p>If it helps, my younger kid transfered to a new school/new country when she was a junior. She flourished at her new school, made a lot of new friends and graduated as the Sal at her new school. Now in college, she is still in close contact with her new high school friends. The only glitch we had was to “normalize” her GPA to her new school. As far as applying to colleges, she demonstrated her ability to adapt to new environment, so it was a plus for her.</p>

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<p>Please visit the new school before you transfer . . . make sure it’s what you’re looking for. If it is, then I’d say to go for it. Good luck!</p>

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<p>What will affect your chances of getting into college is your current misery. It is much better to transfer than to continue to suffer, not only for the sake of your GPA, but for your mental health. An unhappy person isn’t going to be able to sell him/herself well to any college, but this isn’t the most important point. You should be enjoying high school, not enduring it.</p>