<p>Did your son/daughter transfer from the school they started in and why?</p>
<p>I would be interested in this information as well.</p>
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<p>My D is in the process of what we hope will be a successful transfer come fall 2007. She will hear within the next 3 weeks.</p>
<p>She loves her current school (academically, the professors, and the opportunities afforded her even as a freshman, including a 3 week internship at the National Museum in the Republic of Georgia - formerly Russia -, and was even able to join the crew team, with no prior experience), however the rural environment and lack of a college town has taken its toll on her. In addition she's looking for more art programs along with liberal arts classes. She's applied to a dual degree (BA/BFA) at an "off the radar" school in NYC. </p>
<p>She has always loved the city (any city) and quite frankly I was stunned when she opted for a VERY rural (yet beautiful) environment over an urban location.</p>
<p>First 2 kids stayed in the schools where they started. Third child will be transferring this fall (as a junior). He, like above poster's d., loves the academics at present school, but is looking for a school with less Greek presence and more of a college town.</p>
<p>My son is trying to transfer. He is disappointed in the level of intellectualism (not enough) at his current college and wants less city life and less frat scene.</p>
<p>My D transfered after frosh year about six years ago. Like above, the academics were fine, but student partying levels and indifference to "life of mind" approach to education combined to make her feel like she didn't fit. Transfered to a fine school where she found her "people" plus a wonderful education and was very happy.</p>
<p>Another member of the transfer moms club here. My D transferred from a rural LAC to a mid-sized U after her freshman year, largely for social reasons. Very much liked the academics at college No. 1, but found that the rural isolation and dominant culture did not suit her. She also wanted a stronger Jewish community.</p>
<p>It takes courage to transfer, but I think all of the CC parents whose kids have transferred agree that switching schools was the right decision for their kids. After a very brief transitional period, my daughter felt right at home at her transfer school. </p>
<p>You can find lots of threads on the topic of transfer just by doing an advanced search for threads using the keyword "transfer" or "transferring".</p>
<p>MomofWildChild, your son is really going to transfer? He's totally decided?</p>
<p>Good luck to him.</p>
<p>garland: It is our sincere hope that D will also "find her "people" plus a wonderful education in a vibrant place.</p>
<p>wjb: D is also is serach of a stronger Jewish community; one she thought she'd find at her quiet LAC, but didn't quite materialize...for her. </p>
<p>I suppose CC parents have more in common than it might seem on the surface.</p>
<p>Fingers crossed for "just"aD. It's been my observation that when kids transfer, they have a much better idea of what they're looking for and how to identify it than they did the first time around. So I think there's a good chance she'll find her people the second time around.</p>
<p>Not 100% sure. We'll see what acceptances he gets and how he feels around the end of May. He swears he won't go back to his current school in the fall- would consider a semester off or something like that, which I don't want him to do because of insurance issues. At this point I am seriously liking the economics of UTenn. He says if he goes there he should live in a penthouse apartment since the tuition is less than his meal plan at his current school! (did I mention an accute sense of entitlement????) He had knee surgery Friday and is living on the couch hooked up to various machines and popping pain pills.</p>
<p>"He says if he goes there he should live in a penthouse apartment since the tuition is less than his meal plan at his current school"</p>
<p>You can't blame him for asking.</p>
<p>"He had knee surgery Friday and is living on the couch hooked up to various machines and popping pain pills"</p>
<p>I played that game. I'm sure he is not having too much fun right now.</p>
<p>My son also transferred; primary reasons:</p>
<p>1) I feel he really outgrew his LAC and the LAC did not really afford enough room for him to shift or change directions.</p>
<p>2) Money: he had some setbacks at the LAC - an incomplete in 1 class - and the LAC did not offer the opportunity to catch up by making up a course in a semester due to restrictions on the number of courses a student could take. There simply was no way he could have graduated in 4 years and no way we could afford an additional semester not covered by financial aid.</p>
<p>Like others, I want to emphasize that my son was NOT unhappy with his first choice -- academics were great, the experience of living on the opposite coast was great, he had fun. It's just that the "undecided" 18 year old was still "undecided" at 20, but at 20 no longer happy with the idea of spending 4 his time in a cocoon merely being "educated"-- he really needed to find his place in the world. He took a 1-year break that turned into 3 years, transferred to an in-state public that was affordable without financial aid, and has a more career-oriented focus -- i.e., majoring in an academic field that relates directly to what he now sees as his most likely career path. </p>
<p>I don't see the transfer as a bad thing -- just a growth experience both for my son and for me as a parent. My son ended up in a place where academically, he was a "big fish in a small pond", and he has reaped the benefits of that -- right now it looks like this has opened up more doors for him than finishing 4 years at the original college would have done. He did see many of his friends graduating 2 years ago without jobs lined up and without any clear idea of what they wanted to do in life or what they were capable of doing -- and in that respect felt he was then ahead of the curve, with 2 years of significant work experience behind him.</p>
<p>Sorry for off-topic but I must comment on this.</p>
<p>“National Museum in the Republic of Georgia - formerly Russia”</p>
<p>"just"aMom. “Formerly Russia” is the wrong statement, because the first kingdom on the territory of Georgia was formed in 14BC (Colchis). And in 10th century united Georgian kingdom was formed (Sakartvelo). While first kingdom on the territory of Russia was formed in 10th century CE and United Russian kingdom was formed in 14th century CE. So how can the country which formed as a kingdom centuries earlier than Russia and recognized Christianity as a state religion in 327 (which makes Georgia one of the oldest Christian nations in the world) be the “former Russia”? You said that your daughter interned at the National Museum of Georgia (Georgia was the republic from 1990 till 1995) just ask her if she found a single cultural similarity between these two countries. </p>
<p>Again I apologize for writing off-topic, but I think it is important to feel the difference between TOTALLY different countries.</p>
<p>DOLO2...sorry if I ruffled your feathers, it's "my" phrase I use when writing to distiguish it from the state of Georgia in the US. (As opposed to when I'm speaking with someone and the dialog can get more in depth)</p>
<p>Formerly part of Russia? Would that be a more correct statement? </p>
<p>I only know there's intense border control passing from one region to another, otherwise I'm in the dark.</p>
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<p>My kids haven't transferrred, but long ago, back in the dark ages, I did. It was the best decision I ever made, and a surprisingly easy adjustment. I would never have picked my second school when I was in high school, and, honestly, I wasn't ready for it until I had some experience under my belt. I also could never have afforded four years there. </p>
<p>In many ways, I had the best of both worlds - two years at a smallish public school (read: cheap) in a small town which gave me lots of (cheap) time to play around with different majors and courses, discover what I wanted to do, and, yes, get socializing out of my system. I needed that two years to mature and develop into someone who knew who they were and where they were headed. Then two years at an urban university where I buckled down, focused on a major I loved, and prepared for real life. </p>
<p>I think a lot of kids struggling with their decisions right now need to hear that, if the choice you're making today doesn't work out, you are NOT doomed to four years of misery - this is not an irreversible decision.</p>
<p>My daughter hasn't transfered but I wouldn't be upset if she did. Plenty of people who move around during college, for lots of reasons. Wanting to live in a different city/state/country, changing majors, following a significant other, financial reasons, having the opportunity to go to a school they wern't accepted to as a freshman, and just plane being bored. My daughter has friends who are transferring next year for all of the above reasons. It's actually not that unusual.</p>
<p>Formerly part of the USSR.</p>
<p>My son is also waiting to hear from 3 Universities, all in cold, northern climates. The lack of intellectual discourse with his fellow students in the classroom has turned him off, but his has had fun outside the classroom in sunny S. Calif.</p>
<p>My daughter transferred after her freshman year from an art school in NYC to Smith College. After the fall semster at Smith, she transferred back. It would be easy to assume she was bouncing around thoughtlessly between schools, however, I think that as a bright academically inclined student she kept doubting her choice. After going to another school, she came back convinced that she was in the right place.</p>