<p>There is no college that some students don’t wind up hating and transferring. From Harvard to Smith to Southwest North-Central Amalgamated Mining & Knitting College.</p>
<p>Very little in life is guaranteed. You do your research, make your informed choice, and take your chances and see how it plays out.</p>
<p>As a side note, being paralyzed for fear of making a mistake is usually worse than making the mistake. (See also, we often can’t choose how we die but we can choose how we live.)</p>
<p>Fwiw, not that we treated it so, but we were told that Smith by one of College Confidential’s owners, a former Smith admissions officer, that was virtually a Safety for my D…“pirouette if not waltz in.” D never felt it a “Safety” at all and was challenged for all four years. (Whereas I think she would have despaired at Skidmore, her true Safety. It was really hard for her to find a Safety that she would have been happy to attend.)</p>