<p>Hey guys, I'm a sophomore at a top 50 ranked school.
Academics at the school are great, especially for my major(finance). Got a sweet abroad program lined up for next semester, biz school building is being rebuilt for next year w/ a bunch of sweet stuff , and really good internship/job placement in NYC. Finished freshman year with a 3.8, so I'm happy about that.</p>
<p>But other than the prospect of getting a good job after graduation, there's nothing else that really gets me pumped about school.</p>
<p>-Campus life is pretty dead, especially on weekends when you would want something to do.
School's A LOT more commuter heavy than I expected coming in as a freshman, and even worse, a huge percentage of the residents go home on the weekends being that the majority of them are rich suburban white kids from the tri state area.
-Diversity is pretty much non existant.
-Student Clubs are a bit lacking, when compared to university's of similar caliber.
-Night life is reduced to a few fars off campus, and the occasional house party. but it suffers extremely considering we have no greek life.</p>
<p>I can go on and on about a lot more topics such as food, dorm policies (i live off campus now so it doesnt matter heh),etc. Last year I got the chance to visit friends who go to schools that are similarly ranked and similiarly priced (BC,BU,GWU,GTown, NYU,etc) and was surprised by how much better quality everything non-academic related was. I'm talking better facilities, dining halls , campus services, dorm policies and heck, much better nightlife (especially in boston heh).
Left thinking to myself, "wow..im getting robbed"</p>
<p>which leads me to my question:
Is simply not having enough "fun" a good enough reason to transfer and start all over junior year? Obviously that's not what I would write for the "why transfer" essay if I do decide to transfer, but it's just that I don't have a purely academic motivation to transfer.
I feel like I'm being robbed of a good college experience i guess haha.</p>
I’m bored, unfulfilled, and unhappy. Very likely transferring, and for the same reason you are, it seems like. I want that college experience that I can look back on with happiness, and if I stayed here I don’t think I’d get that.</p>