Thinking about transferring out of Cornell

happymomof1
Sat, 16 Dec 2017 04:25:10 +0000

One of my biggest regrets about my undergraduate college was that I didn’t take time off or consider transferring out when I was burned out. I powered through. It worked for me because I had a bunch of close friends who I knew I would miss terribly if I left, but it was a bad choice academically.

Go to the counseling center, and talk through your options with someone there. Apply to some cheap home-state public Us or other places that you know your family can pay for with less aid than Cornell is giving you. Get in your car, and go look for some community project you can get involved in in Ithaca. When I was there for grad school, there were tons of things to do in town. I knew plenty of people who got active with something there rather than spending all of their time on campus.

Wishing you all the best!