Changing graduate schools

LAC_operon
Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:03:20 +0000

Perhaps my little story will be of use: Coming from my experience when I applied to colleges as a high schooler - I didn’t get into my first choice school (which is super duper competitive to get into) and I ended up having so many doubts before starting at the school I ultimately choose (a great school too, but just not “my first choice”). Like you, I thought, well, I just will transfer if I don’t like it (you can transfer during UG much more easily than grad). After the first year - I loved my school and had no desire to transfer. My guess is that once you start, MIT will loose some of it’s “it just looks so much better to me” feeling. You probably will still really love MIT too (so work really hard to get a postdoc there), but perhaps you will learn to like Penn even more once it becomes “your school.”