<p>There’s nothing wrong with transferring if you aren’t happy where you are.</p>
<p>But I suggest do sufficient research to make sure your subsequent destination is really likely to be a material improvement for you.</p>
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<li><p>first and foremost you would need to investigate credit transfer policies, if that is a big concern.</p></li>
<li><p>If you are really going to get all those 86 credits transferred, suggest do not just blithely commit to a small school without ensuring that it will have a plethora of upper-level courses for you to take [as Cornell does, obviously] when you reach your senior year. In the area you ultimately decide to major in, and sub-areas within that major field which interest you the most at that time. The reason for this caution is, my D1 matriculated to a large LAC which gave her credit for her vast array of APs and college courses. But ultimately she found she had slim pickings, course-wise, in the upperclass years, in the areas she gravitated to. A lot of students would not have encountered these limitations in upper-level course offerings, but she did, precisely because she skipped all those intro courses.</p></li>
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<p>To do this investigation do NOT look at a school’s course catalog, which lists every course they ever thought about. Look at the registrar’s list of courses they are actually giving, eg each of the last two semesters. Also look at the number of sections. When only one section of each upper-level class you may want to take is given, irreconcilable scheduling conflicts are more likely to arise. Also keep in mind a matrerial number of upper-level courses at LACs may be offered only every other semester or every other year. D1 was, ultimately, hampered by all of these situations.</p>
<p>It’s too bad you encountered problems joining up with certain student activities you wanted, but suggest make sure you won’t encounter the same problem subsequently. It would be a shame if you left because you didn’t make the a capella group (or whatever) at your first school, and then went someplace else and it turned out that you also didn’t make the a capella group there either! [BTW if you wind up staying you can try joining again, or maybe even start your own club.]</p>
<p>Suggest do actual investigation regarding the administration and culture to find a situation that will really be more appealing to you in these regards. Whatever they may be. </p>
<p>Bear in mind that the “culture” at your current school may look one way when you are a freshman, and have to live with, and deal with, all the diverse personalities that exist there in the the freshman dorms, but may be perceived totally differently once you are an upperclassman living, and mixing, primarily with your own group of friends. The truth is , with so many diverse types there, there really is not one “culture”. But as a freshman this may not always necessarily be so obvious.</p>
<p>But nevertheless, if you dont want to chance wating for a better situation to develop there for you, just do the work to make sure your new environment is really likely to be “better”, in that regard.</p>
<p>Since the university does not specifically select for maturity level, there is no reason to suppose the level there is actually abnormal, overall. In truth, out of those thousands of students there, some are immature, some are average maturity, some are like 80-year olds, and everything in between. The trick at a large school is to find your cohort of like-minded individuals, If you stay. Which most people eventually do. But there are no guarantees.</p>
<p>But the point is, if you are seeking a more “mature” cohort, do whatever research is appropriate to determine that the students are really more “mature” in your new environment. Else you will get there and find it is just the same in this regard. [BTW maturity levels will increase naturally anyway, to a good extent, as all of you get older through your college years.]</p>