Transferring from Ivy League

justinmeche
Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:01:20 +0000

CUlater21,
The school I transfered too wasn’t hesitant at all about accepting me. I had a C average in an Ivy engineering program and the engineering affiliation requirements at the transfer school were not as strict. At the Ivy you needed to pass more higher level courses before being accepted into the major. My current school affiliates students much earlier, so I was immediately affiliated in the state school program while I was not eligible to affiliate at the Ivy.
I’m not really happier where I am now. I don’t feel as “connected” with school as I used to. At the Ivy everyone lived on or near the campus. At my current school most students are commuters and I live 20 miles from campus. But the basic education is better. The Ivy profs were heavy into research and not teaching, while the state school profs main goal is to teach. The smaller classroom and personal relationships with the profs help out a lot. I always felt I had what it took to be successful in engineering but I needed to be in particular environment to learn it. My problem sets may not be as complicated as those at MIT but knowing the fundamentals of engineering is most important. That knowledge will carry you a long way because all complex problems can be broken down into fundamentals.