Am I making a big mistake....?

MYOS1634
Wed, 02 Sep 2015 07:46:42 +0000

Due to the opt rule change, a master’s is going to be necessary for professional experience (it’s likely to change back at some point but you can’t count on it being before you graduate. )
If you want to go back to Asia after your opt, then your degree needs to be recognized there. How famous is ND in your country? Would attending the 2nd oldest college after Harvard serve your purpose there?
If you want to go for a master’s, would you want to go for a PHD?
What’s your end goal?
Not sure why you thought Notre Dame is a 'bigger name ’ than W&M. For business, definitely, but W&M 's intensely intellectual atmosphere will carry at least as much weight for a PHD. Now if ND’s math program has a better track record with top PHD programs and you want to pursue math at that level, it seems that either you suck it up, don’t do cs, take the Catholic theology classes, and stay; or you forfeit whatever advantage you might have had at ND (which may not be that much, but do find out ), learn from your mistake, and plan to transfer back to W&M in the spring. Hopefully you did not have a scholarship because it’s gone, and if you depend on a scholarship to attend anywhere then you must make the best out of the ND situation.
In any case, think this through carefully; that you invested a couple months into the transfer process freshman year should not affect how you spend the next three years so that shouldn’t enter the equation.