Am I making a big mistake....?

merc81
Tue, 01 Sep 2015 09:26:27 +0000

“Notre Dame is ranked higher than William & Mary in mathematics and computer science”

As far as I know, their respective undergraduate departments are not ranked anywhere. Did you take graduate department rankings and apply them to the undergraduate colleges?

“Notre Dame . . . has a well respected undergrad mathematics honors curriculum”

This could be relevant, but only if you compared their course offerings to W & M’s and found them to be significantly superior for your purposes.

“I transferred from College of William and Mary to University of Notre Dame in hope for . . . a school with a bigger name”

Notre Dame is a popular, desirable school for many, but it wouldn’t have occurred to me that it has a better academic name than W & M.

Consider all your options, but your most realistic one may be to commit to a semester at Notre Dame. If after a couple of months you find are still unhappy there, apply for transfer back to W & M for the spring semester. The deadline is November 1st.