Advice please - Tranferring

Hanmyo
Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:36:12 +0000

As for the “feel”…at RPI, I don’t really like:
the professors (I don’t think they’re really into the whole teaching aspect of things)
the people (mostly the ones from the NE who seem really distant and introverted, also because they are at a tech school)
the ratio (although it is like 2/3 guys, I think I’d like it to be a bit more equal)
the food (tastes unhealthy, which I know will probably happen anywhere I go)
the atmosphere (not what I would consider lively…a bit reserved)

Also, I know that I like smaller colleges (definitely under 10,000 or more around 6,000), I don’t mind if it’s rural or urban since I hardly go off of campus, out of the NW, challenging, and…as for what people do in their free time…maybe one where people don’t always drink or anything but also they don’t go waste all of their time on video games. It’d be cool if there was a college where I could continue competing in ballroom dancing, which I’ve been doing at RPI.

I’ll look into the schools mentioned, but I’m not sure how much of a chance I have at most of those. When I was applying at schools as a senior in high school, I managed to get into Northwestern, Willamette, Washington University in St. Louis, and RPI, but RPI and Willamette were the only ones to give me any aid which I need in order to go to college basically. =\ I wasn’t able to get accepted to Berkeley or any of those Ivies of course.