I’m currently a statused Junior at my current school, (technically a senior with my AP credits and two classes I took at a community college), but I’ve been considering transferring schools. I go to my local school, University of North Florida, which isn’t a bad school by any means, but I just don’t fit in here. I like all my professors but I haven’t made a single friend. I’ve made acquaintances in my classes but once the class ends we never speak again. I am a commuter student, so I know it’s harder to make friends but it just seems impossible at my university unless you live on campus or are into greek life. I’ve tried joining clubs but that hasn’t seemed to work out either.
I want to transfer to the University of Florida, and I’ve had a long history with the school. It’s always been my dream school, and I got in as a freshman but I wasn’t ready to move away from home, and my current school offered me scholarship money so my plan was to transfer after two years. I applied and was accepted after two years, but ended up turning it down because of some housing situations. Last year I decided I wanted to go so I applied to transfer and was accepted again, but I was also accepted to the Disney College Program for the fall semester, and I decided to accept that instead.
Now I have just come back from the program with Disney and am contemplating applying again, but I’m not sure if I should since it’s so late in my college career. Another dilemma is that I want to go to law school, and one of my top choices is the UF, so I don’t know if that will hinder my chances at all. I also have plans to apply to the Ivy’s, but I don’t know if that will be an automatic red flag.
I know I will be behind if I transfer, but I feel like I will be happier at UF. It’s not that I hate my school, I just feel like I’m stuck in a rut, and I don’t know if it would be better in the long run to transfer to the school I’ve always wanted to go to. It’s also the part of me that wants to have my undergrad degree say University of Florida on it.
If anyone can give me some advice or opinions or anything that would help me I would greatly appreciate it!