Help: Should I transfer twice?

NavalTradition
Sun, 17 Nov 2013 20:35:57 +0000

If you want to pursue a PhD you need to build relationships with faculty members who can act as research advisors and write your letters of recommendation. You also need to start building up a track record of scholarship and research.

Both of those things are going to be difficult if you’re transferring all over the place.

It can be frustrating to be in a place with large classes and many unintellectual peers. On the other hand, you will have many small classes and intellectual peers at a PhD program. And Michigan and Cornell have a lot of large classes (and partying) as well. And if many of your peers don’t care much about knowledge, it will be easier to stand out as a budding researcher to the faculty.