<p>I have a different type of question than are normally posted on this website. I’m not wondering IF I could get into Yale as a transfer, but SHOULD I transfer to Yale. In a nutshell, I am top 5% of my class, Student Government, coaching Club Tennis, a T.A., in a play, E-board for my fraternity…and I have been selected to be the face of my University next year.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I am not having the college experience that I had envisioned for myself. I find the school materialistic and shallow. As a sophomore, this is my last chance to transfer.</p>
<p>Students of Yale, is the Yale experience so amazing, that it is worth leaving my current college behind? Unlike other transfer students, I have completely intermeshed myself into my current University, so leaving would have some big repercussions for me.</p>
<p>I would leave if the grass on the other side was really greener.</p>
<p>If you feel so connected then stay…but you say it’s “materialistic and shallow.” I personally feel that Yale is such an unbelievable experience, I wouldn’t have it any other way.</p>
<p>I don’t know where you currently go to college, so it’s hard to say. You’ll find materialistic and shallow people at Yale, just as you will anywhere else; you’ll also find some genuine good people who care about learning and appreciate depth in others. That said, to join Yale as a junior is tough. You won’t be able to jump into activities and achieve the same positions you have at your current college. I also don’t know about your major, but you may have a lot of academic catching-up to do that will lower your overall happiness (and possibly GPA). If having “Yale” on your diploma is a serious consideration, then come on over, but otherwise it may be in your interest to continue enjoying your niche and graduating in the top 5% of the class rather than coming to Yale - where the competition <em>can</em> be cut-throat and materialistic, though it doesn’t have to be.</p>