<p>I’m a college freshmen at a medium size Catholic college.
I hate it. I’m an athlete at the college but I am injured and red-shirting the entire year so every time I’ve complained to my parents about the school they pinned it on anxiety/depression over the injury. I haven’t really made friends with anyone else on the team, I felt no connection with any of them. I went to a large public high school that was much more competitive academically and athletically than my college. None of the other freshmen on the team seem to care about the sport or posses any drive. </p>
<p>Besides that I came into freshmen year with 30 AP credits, putting me a year ahead. I had very few classes with any freshmen my whole first year and being on a sports team has made it near impossible to meet any non-athletes. I was a slacker in high school but still managed to graduate with a low A GPA in APs and honors and score 4/5’s on 10 AP exams. I had a 31 on ACT. </p>
<p>My classes here have been very easy for the most part, I have a 3.34 GPA for the first semester but I spent less than 10 hours a week on homework/studying. My classes were boring and I only struggled with one class that I probably shouldn’t have taken in the first place. I’ve always been the type of student that only tried if I had to and if things don’t interest me I usually don’t give them much attention.</p>
<p>I don’t like the social or academic aspects of the school and the athletic program does not seem to be fitting well either, I really don’t like the coach that much. </p>
<p>I want to transfer to a better school where I will actually feel intellectually stimulated and where the student body is more intelligent. Many of the people I’ve been around don’t understand the concept of AP classes, people in my chemistry class couldn’t add with decimals, and various other things just put me off of this place. </p>
<p>However I could graduate from this school in three years or less, saving money for grad school. I know if I transfer to a school of a higher academic caliber I will most likely not receive the same generous academic scholarship I have here. I don’t qualify for financial aid and I also know that very few coaches will be willing to take an athlete who hasn’t competed since their senior year of high school. I also planning on actually working this semester since I’m not happy with how I did last semester. </p>
<p>Does it look impressive to grad school admissions to graduate early? And if I do transfer what kind of schools should I look at? Should I retake my ACT?</p>