How crazy is it to transfer twice? Do colleges even look at your application if you transfer twice? Also, what do employers think about transferring a lot? It seems like it might just depend on how you explain it to them and present it. For a little background, I transferred from a decent school to Vanderbilt but am considering transferring again. It really just isn’t what I thought. Also, does the target school for transferring matter? Thanks.
@Eggyeol : What is disappointing to you about Vanderbilt University ?
P.S. I think that I know your original university. Earlier you shared that you were in an honors college/program majoring in finance & international business. This can be a great double major if you also are proficient in a foreign language.
Do you wish that you had stayed at your original public university ?
My take is that you’d be greatly harming your education. The relationships you build with friends and faculty, experiences you partake in, education etc. what’s the point of graduating from a T10 school if you know no one and no one can vouch for you when you try to get jobs?
nobody cares, go for it - I went from a CC > big state school down south > Stanford
Be sociable, and the idea of someone “vouching” for you when applying for a job is stupid. You get internships, and those internships are who employers might reach out to for references. Two years on a campus is plenty of time to build a network of good friends.
I think that you need a very good reason to transfer twice. My concern is partly that “It really just isn’t what I thought” sounds like you didn’t really do your homework before you transferred the first time, and partly that this same thing could probably be said by most students about probably pretty much any university.
Why did you transfer the first time? What is it that you expect to find in a university that you haven’t found in the first two tries?
Your resume will list where you got your degree from. There is no need to include how you got there. There could be employment applications where you have to include all the schools you attended. In that case if you were questioned you would just explain the reason why you transferred.
However, if you are at Vanderbilt my thought is to stick it out and finish. Time goes so fast and before you know it you will be an alumni. I think the downside of many transfers is that you never really have time to make those important relationships and enjoy the college experience. It becomes more about getting the right credits.
Is Vanderbilt affordable for your family? Are you doing okay academically? Why change? No place is going to be perfect. Every time you transfer you risk adding time toward finishing your degree. Sometimes there are good reasons, sometimes you don’t really have a choice, but think hard about it when the reason is that it wasn’t “what you thought.”