to give a bit of background: my senior year of high school I was set on going to college in NYC, but the college i chose was an extremely expensive private school. I had my heart set on it and even though I received a 20k scholarship, I received minimal money from fafsa and couldn’t afford it. I naively only applied to a couple of colleges, the one aforementioned & St Joseph’s College on Long Island which I really had no interest in whatsoever. In a last ditch effort I applied late to SUNY New Paltz, was accepted, and just began here this Fall. The campus is alright, the academics are good, but I’m not happy with my decision & the distance from home(I live on Long Island) is a little too much for me.
I’m only in my freshman year and only began classes a couple weeks ago but I am almost sure I want to transfer. I am planning on sticking it out for the Fall & Spring semesters and hopefully transferring to a CUNY school in Fall of 2016.
I know it’s a bit early to be looking but I’ve been reading a lot of transfer application deadlines for next Fall are in the winter and I want to be prepared.
I was a slightly above average student in high school with a 3.2 average. I took plenty of AP’s & scored a 1690 on my SAT(1120 CR & math)
I have no grades in college yet but I’ve set my mind to being more devoted to my studies(I never really tried in high school). My minimum goal is a 3.5 gpa. I’ve joined my college’s history club thus far & the club & activities fair will be soon where I’ll be signing up for community service activities and academic clubs.
I have not declared a major yet but I want to do something in the history field.
I have also decided to go to school in Manhattan I will have to attend a CUNY school based on financial reasons. I am more familiar with SUNY schools than CUNY ones so I don’t know much about which are the best and which are not. It would mean a lot if anyone could recommend a few that are known for their history programs or at least have a decently large population of students studying history.
I apologize for this insanely long post! Any help would be amazing! Thank you!