Should I stay or should I transfer?

vinceh
Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:26:41 +0000

Sherbet, at the risk of sounding harsh you need to grow up and take responsibility for your education. You seem to have a simplistic image of college as a place where eager undergrads get to rub elbows with Nobel Prize winners simply by asking. Access to the best and brightest professors only happens in the higher level courses and even then only to the best and brightest undergrads. Kulakai is 100% correct, if you want true research and interaction with the great minds you’re going to need to go onto graduate school.

When I read your long response I’m left with the feeling that this is someone who doesn’t yet know what they want from college. No college holds your hand and allows you to fill out a few forms and bounce from major to major or school to school without some justification. You need to have a plan and a goal and then go tell “the system” what you need.

As for prestige I have no answer. USC is a top university in the United States. That it lacks status in your home country is not something that is going to change anytime soon. You chose USC for a reason it’s up to you to exploit the opportunities that SC affords.

Finally,



As for the Business degree, I was not entirely enticed by it; I would have chosen Physics or Computer Science over it any day.



Then why aren’t you majoring in Physics or Comp Sci? If that’s what you wanted how did you end up majoring in Economics? Have you looked into the combined BS in Comp Sci & Business at USC?

By all means take Kulakai’s advice and apply to transfer to all of your schools and Marshall. However, I would encourage you to deeply research all these schools as well as all of the exceptional programs that are currently available to you on the SC campus.