I agree that I have to get involved. I am attempting to rush a business fraternity called Alpha Kappa Psi and join Buckeye Undergraduate Consulting Club, Buckeye Capital Investors, and a Mock Trial Team. Hopefully, those will give me a better sense of community and change my opinion.
Also, does anyone have any insight as to bringing a car down to campus. I realize I am a freshman but I know a junior that would be willing to let me use her spot. Would it be foolish to do so? I am from Cleveland
Whether you successfully transfer to a more challenging university will depend almost entirely on how well you do at OSU. Neither Penn nor Cornell (nor any other school of that caliber) will admit ANY transfer who didn’t blow the lid off their previous school. If you want to transfer to an Ivy (or similar), you better get straight A’s this semester. If you’re able to take electives, take something challenging and get an A. Join student groups and contribute meangingfully to them. Getting in as a transfer is very different from getting in as a h.s. senior. They’ve now got an actual college-level performance to evaluate in addition to your high-school record. Make sure you don’t let your dissatisfaction with OSU sap you of your motivation, drive, ambition, etc. You’ll need to prove that even if OSU was a mistake for you, you still had what it took to excel there.
A reality check would tell you your ACT score is NOT good enough to get you into Michigan (unless you mean Michigan State instead). They do not superscore ACT and 29 is a couple points below the 25th percentile.
I transferred out of Ohio State after my freshman year, so I can understand why someone would want to leave. I couldn’t handle the huge classes and TAs that couldn’t speak English. Still, if you’ve only been there a few weeks, you do need to give it time. And if you can’t make friends, that’s on you. I went to a high school 20 minutes away from OSU and had lots of former classmates attending, but the university was so big I almost never saw them.
@billcsho I am indeed talking about the University of Michigan, I was admitted but did not attend because of risk of transferring into Ross year two.
and @simba9, do you mind me asking where you transferred to?
You will need to get pretty close with professors, as I believe transfer applications require recommendation letters. Undergraduate research and the like.
Transfer admissions take test scores into account, but are weighted less. Either way, 29/31SS are low for Michigan, Stern (which has a 5% transfer admit rate), and USC, and very low for Cornell/Penn/Ivies.
Either way, you will have to spend more time trying to appreciate OSU, because transfer apps don’t open until 2018. It’s a great school with a great football team!
University of Alaska Fairbanks.
With those test scores, probably you should hope for colleges roughly in the US News National Universitiy #25-50 ranking.
I think most colleges do not want transfer applicants to retake the SAT/ACT. What would you be proving by showing that, as a college student, you can score higher than you did in high school? Most colleges will ask for test scores for sophomore transfers; most do not require them for junior transfers.