Should you transfer schools if it's too "easy"?

cobrat
Sat, 08 Jun 2013 10:06:04 +0000

There are situations where transferring up is necessary if the college concerned is “too easy”


Academic level of students are so low a given student isn’t being challenged and the college concerned is focused so much on the remedial/average students at the college they don’t have the resources and/or refuse to allow the academically advanced student to take courses more appropriate to his/her actual level.
If one’s aspiring to a topflight academic graduate program in a field where one’s lower-tiered* college’s academic department is so weak and/or so lacking in research resources/faculty that staying may seriously impair one’s application to an academic Masters or especially PhD programs.
One’s personality is such that not being around other highly motivated academically advanced students means the student becomes disengaged and ends up doing poorly/dropping out of absolute boredom.


I’ve met dozens of former HS dropouts with high standardized test scores as academically high achieving undergrads who became so fed up with the low-level of academic challenges in their public school districts, bullying from less academically inclined students and sometimes even school staff/other parents, and the bureaucratic obstacles/micromanagement that they dropped out.

Met them after they took advantage of a college admission policy which didn’t necessitate a high school diploma/GED and they ended up leapfrogging over most of their college classmates…including ones in their honors program.


Lower-tiered meaning a 4th/5th tier college/department where most admitted students were at/near the bottom of their graduating HS classes from academically average/mediocre HS and where there are a sizable chunk of remedial students taking courses like 9th grade HS algebra or in one extreme case…basic arithmetic like multiplying/dividing fractions.