<p>Will transferring Universities hurt my Grad school chances?</p>
<p>I am really stressed out on what to do. I attended a very small not so good school in Alabama my freshman year and had to get so far away from there was in total culture shock. I am from Chicago so you can see why. I decided that I would not attend that school anymore in the beginning of August of that year when school was suppose to start back. The only school that I could find that was still accepting applications was Southern ILL University-Edwardsville the small campus of the other big popular Southern ILL University. I went there and have been there two years. It's horrible, and it has drained me so much emotionally that it has sent me into depression. I have always been an independent person who works. I have been working since I was 14. At the school in Alabama they had a bus that took me where I needed to go (although town was not big), and I had job. At SIUE I can not find a job, I went 3 days without eating once because I had not money and can not afford meal plans. I have to beg for rides into town and then people there are all fake phony, and mean. </p>
<p>At School in Alabama had a 3.2 gpa
SIUE have a 3.4 gpa</p>
<p>I want to go back home (well have to in order to become stable again). Chicago that is. I really want to go to DePaul and stay on campus. I have an efc of 0 and I know I can keep my job I have here at home and instead of just working summers become all year. This is where my friends and family are also. I do not mind getting on the bus or taking public trans if it is available and Chicago has a lot of it. And Depaul is a way better school like a million times better. </p>
<p>However, I have worked hard all 3 years because I want to go on to grad school and later obtain a Master's than PHD. I am getting my BA in English and want to go on to study critical and cultural studies. I am afraid that a good grad school will not want me if I have 3 universities on my transcripts even if all the grades are good. </p>
<p>I am also scared DePaul will not give me good fin aid (I can not live at home because I do not have a stable home. Mom lives off her sister, and dad is somewhere) I usually just stay with my aunt and I will either have to drop out to pursue a trade (when I really want to be a professional researcher) or go back to SIUE which I can not (even doc says it).</p>
<p>-So do you think transferring to Depaul will hurt my chances of getting into a "good" graduate school if any at all? </p>
<p>Extra fact: I also worked hard in high school got into some really good colleges far out of state but due to pretty much taking care of myself I had no way to get a far as a greyhound ticket to Alabama. So since I could not take up my chances to go to the really good ones I got into in highschool I really want to go to a good grad school.</p>