Advice on transferring?

ucbalumnus
Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:07:11 +0000

alecbenzer:

Ideally, I’d want to be at a University where I’m surrounded by like-minded people.



This might be an unrealistic expectation at any medium or large university, which will have people with a range of intellectual interests and abilities. And a small school would have to be an exact fit to your intellectual interests and abilities to meet this expectation. At a large university, you should at least be able to find like minded people among the large population of other students.

Remember that, in real life, you will be interacting with people of all different intellectual interests and abilities.

As far as transferring goes, it is your decision. But evaluate schools realistically; don’t oversell yourself on how much better some other school will be, since you may be setting yourself up for a letdown after you transfer.