Stick it out or transfer in the fall?

thumper1
Sat, 26 Oct 2019 17:11:20 +0000

My kids both attend(ed) grad school in the south…at small schools. Neither had the option of transferring because these were grad programs. You just don’t transfer out of those! Both have friends from the areas, and embraced the cultural differences between the locations of their schools and where they grew up (one of my kids went to undergrad in CA…believe me…that had a different culture too).

The difference I can see is…both of our kids went to schools in the south that were actually located IN the cities, not a car drive away. This gave them many options of things to do and see outside of their school campuses.

And I totally understand where this student is coming from. I still have friends from my college freshman year during the Stone Age. But the school was 90% Greek, and Very isolated. I had no way to understand what that really meant until I got there. How would any high school student understand the impact of living on a college campus where life revolves around the Panhellenic Council?

I think this student is doing the smart thing and it sounds like the parents are supportive. He is looking at options for next year so that he will have them should he decide he wants to use them! Smart kid.