<p>FinalsEyes, I’m also a current JHU freshman who’s deciding on transferring between UPenn and Wesleyan (and a couple other schools if I get off their wait list). If your main reason for transfer is getting the best education possible for your field, JHU really is the place to be if you’re premed; I don’t think UPenn and Columbia would be as cut throat/competitive as JHU, not saying that they aren’t as good, but I generally feel like if you strive in a competitive environment over a collaborative one, Hopkins is right for you. Like most people said, it really depends on why you are transferring. BlueJayBJ has it right (I like the username btw), I’m transferring because frankly, I’m just not happy here. I really don’t like Baltimore, I don’t fit in with the general Hopkins crowd, and I think that I could have a better academic experience in a different school and do better where I would be happier. I think if you aren’t satisfied with your experience at JHU and you think you can have a better one at a different school, then transfer.</p>
<p>And honestly, I think JHU is just as prestigious as those schools. Sure it’s not an Ivy League but JHU beats out those schools in a lot of different ways (research grants, that stuff). I was able to take a class this semester taught by the 2011 nobel prize winner in Physics, I can’t say that if I went to any different school.</p>