<p>to all the students who have transferred successfully to another college, what do u miss about your former college? do you miss the school itself (classes, professors), campus, location, friends?
was it easy to adjust to your new school? any regrets, esp transferring at all?
i am thinking about transferring, and if i do it, would like to do it as soon as possible, but obviously it is too late to go this fall. the only schools i know of that do mid-year transfers are uva, cornell, washu, nyu, and other state schools.
if you take the time to share your experiences, i'd greatly appreciate it, as i often have with all the info i've received on this board.</p>
<p>I am transferring from Wash U to Sarah Lawrence College.</p>
<p>There was never any debate for me, I knew I wanted to transfer, so I never made a pro-con list or anything like that, but I did come up with a short list of things I would miss, sort of to prove to people who were asking why I was transferring that any reasons I could come up with to stay were not really good reasons to choose a school alone.</p>
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<li><p>The Gargoyle (campus music venue with student-run committee which i worked on for the year i was there, had a total blast, got to meet some wonderful musicians from great bands)</p></li>
<li><p>The Pageant (large music venue about a 20 minute walk from the dorms. I went to sooo many shows there)</p></li>
<li><p>My work study job. Lame to say, I guess, but it's true. I got paid 7.25 an hour in the slide library, putting away slides, photographing artwork for new slides, and manipulating images in photoshop adjusting color and preparing them for the web, etc. Plus my supervisor was the most amazing person in the world.</p></li>
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<p>So, things I will dearly miss, but definitely not things strong enough to keep me from transferring. My best friend from Wash U is also leaving, so I would miss her even if I stayed. Same for my favorite teacher from last year.</p>
<p>thanks for your response. what's funny about ur story is that washu is one of the schools i may apply to transfer to, and not from.
i find myself in the same position, in that my reasons for staying are not compelling at all.
the biggest con i see is that my large financial aid package and scholarship will be gone. otherwise- i feel quite mentally ready to move on. just not excited about filling out all those forms/writing essays all over again. i thought i was done with that last year!</p>
<p>hehe, well at least now you know some cool things about Wash U if you decide to transfer there. ;o)</p>
<p>will you definitely lose your financial aid and scholarship? I know all schools treat transfer students differently, but Sarah Lawrence College actually matched the aid that I was getting from Wash U so it is only slightly more expensive for me. I did lose my national merit scholarship though, darn their rule about transferring!</p>
<p>the essays and forms were HELL. I was so glad to be done with them in january of my senior high school year, and then last year doing them all again... I had to force myself not to procrastinate because I wanted to get them in early to have a better chance, but ugh, so awful. On the bright side, I know my essays were so much stronger this time around.</p>
<p>What school are you transferring from? And what are you looking for in a school you would transfer to? Wash U is a really great school, I still believe, it's just that the art program wasn't set up right for me, and some of the major programs were too strict for what I wanted to study. UVA is also in my hometown and I applied there as a freshman but I liked Wash U much better. ;o)</p>
<p>i'm quite sure that if i don't lose the fin. aid/scholarship, at the very least i won't be getting as much as i'm receiving now. i go to gwu, a very large school in the city, which is notoriously known for being expensive (tuition approaching $50,000) but also gives generous aid/scholarships. so right now i'm paying half tuition and have several grants. i also worked freshman year, which is easy with all the opportunities in the dc area, and the downside with transferring is that i know a campus job won't pay as much if i transfer.
so with finances aside, i've been sort of disappointed with the education here, and also questioning why tuition is one of the highest when lecture rooms are cramped, prof's are unavailable, and severe class shortages abound (i mean come on, only two calculus classes for about 10,000 undergrads?) of course the city is great, but i came here to learn and not play in it. of course...i'll have to tone down this negativity for my essays, which haven't quite begun yet : /</p>
<p>i have a friend at gw. i think he likes it a lot. but then, he is also trying to graduate in 3 years so i don't know. heh.
i'm guessing you're going to apply to several schools for transfer then? hopefully one of them will be able to give you comparable financial aid... are they about as expensive as gw also? one thing i've heard from people although i have not tried it myself, is that if you do not feel the school has given you enough financial aid with your acceptance packet you can try talking to the financial aid office and explaining that you simply cannot afford it on the aid they gave you and sometimes they increase the offer. worth trying, anyway.
good luck!</p>
<p>from clemson to penn:</p>
<p>i'm going to miss friends mostly, also the cheap tution and instate scholarships...also bowman field which is arguably the BEST central field/hang out area of all rural schools...the weather is always perfect and people are always out there tossing frisbees, playing pick up games, studying, etc</p>
<p>some things i won't miss is how besides the aforementioned outdoor activities, there isn't much to do at clemson at night or during the winter except go to frat parties...also the conservative culture bothered me</p>