<p>Hello. I just finished by first year of NYU and honestly, I hate it.
It was actually my dream school but turns out, a college without a campus and a community is not the place for me.
Academically, I found that some of the students don't care about their studies.. where as of for me, it was my main priority.
I loved some of my classes. I am in NYU Gallatin, and during my first semester I had a 3.8, second semester 3.9
so I have a cumulative GPA of 3.855. So hopefully this GPA will help me transfer to a school with a campus and a community.
But my problem is, my only reason why I want to leave NYU is for social reasons and its location. I am originally from southern California.. and I am very biased towards LA and the more "relaxed lifestyle." Is that a good reason to transfer? I am actually on a full ride... so my parents don't want me to leave. But I feel like a lot of people at NYU are materialistic and so fake.. if you know what I mean. Trying to be New Yorkers, when in reality they are either greatly blessed with rich parents or poor and struggling to live up to the city.</p>
<p>Oh and by the way, I am a Music Production & Communications major (or concentration.. Gallatin...)</p>
<p>Do I even have the chance to transfer?
UPenn Harvard USC<br>
Yale Columbia Dartmouth
Northwestern Pomona Stanford Vanderbilt
Cornell Georgetown Brown</p>
<p>My stats are:
GPA: 3.855
ACT: 32
Club vice president composition club
volunteering
work study/leadership
internship</p>
<p>Oh and by the way... if you're considering NYU. Nah don't apply. Just don't.</p>
<p>The likelihood of you transferring into these schools is extremely slim. However, I do understand your desire for a close campus experience. That does make sense. </p>
<p>But why these schools? Do they all have your major? Are they really that different from NYU?</p>
<p>Harvard doesn’t have either major. </p>
<p>But as for student life:</p>
<p>At UPenn, 50% of students are full pay, so they have a fair share of wealthy students too. Harvard is not a closed campus either. People who aren’t students can walk through the lawns and hang on the library steps. Columbia is right in the city, so I find it hard to believe that the type of people could actually be that different.</p>
<p>Cornell is in Ithaca, which is absolutely freezing and in the middle of no where. </p>
<p>Don’t just buy into prestige. You will find students who don’t care about their studies everywhere. You will find developmental case students who were only admitted so their parents could donate an exorbitant amount of money. You will find students who aren motivated everywhere. That has nothing to do with you. You are there to learn and grow.</p>
<p>Your reason for transferring is fine, but it’s clear that the only thing that motivated you to choose these schools is prestige. Please research them indepth before you find yourself in another position where you are unhappy.</p>
<p>Well there are a lot of considerations, but first is he financial consideration. What would be your cost at the other schools, have your worked out some estimates and seen if your family can afford it? Some meet need for transfers but likely some don’t. If you are on full ride due to merit you might have a radically different offer. Can you comment on that?</p>
<p>People seem to be polarized on NYU love it or hate it. I don’t think you should be telling other people what is right for them as a blanket statement. I also know someone from urban SF who found NYU to be a bad fit after the first year, wished she has chosen USC where she also got in. She felt it was a lot of stereotyped shallow girls from Long Island and sort of cookie cutter. That’s the problem with the first year you don’t always find your people or get to know people on a deeper level. You are going through some culture shock and like you would anywhere but on steroids, you need to start attaching to new friends and people don’t always make close friends in just a year. Anyway the NYU girl stuck it out and things went better, mostly from leaving the dorms. NYU is a large school and there is a big mix of student levels and interests. You aren’t exactly in a major of intellectual bent. I can see wanting a community and campus more, it is too bad that was entirely predictable.</p>
<p>The only school that really makes sense from a major POV is USC (or maybe Northwestern.) But that is going to be similar in many ways. You will just be around home and more familiar culture and go home easier. But you are going to find a lot of materialistic people and someone from NYC might find them fake because it is just a different culture.</p>
<p>Harvard takes 0 to 12 transfers a year, so I don’t think it is a realistic goal. You would have to have a compelling reason to need to study there, some academic reason, like they would have certain resources or library collections you need to delve into or some professor is doing the kind of work you want to do reason. Stanford is also only a 2 percent or so transfer rate, so I’d expect they are looking for someone really compelling.</p>
<p>So what sort of courses were you taking and what will you take next year that are going to prepare you for what major as a Jr transfer? The well taken point is made above that those majors are not at most of the colleges on your list. So that is another major consideration for choosing a target list.</p>