Advice please - Tranferring

ElphDriver
Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:45:08 +0000

I am so sorry to hear that you are unhappy - and I really don’t think you should “stick it out.” You only get one undergraduate experience.

My son is a freshman on break from Harvey Mudd, and he is absolutely loving going to school there. We actually visited RPI, and found the town and atmosphere to be not for him (old industrial town, too far away from any city for a city boy).

Mudd seems to be very lively and also hardworking. Lots and lots of pranks - it’s part of the culture there. He is so impressed with all of the professors, they are really into their teaching (there are no graduates students; these professors are hired because they know how to/love to teach). He is in the Claremont Orchestra, which is pretty well represented by Scripps and Claremont McKenna. The five campuses are contiguous, so it really is one big campus of about 5,000 or so students. Look into it, it sounds like you have the high grades they would be looking for in a transfer.