Transferring from UCLA to NYU?

MYOS1634
Sun, 25 Jan 2015 10:54:16 +0000

If you want a personal feel, apply to transfer to Occidental, one of the Claremonts (depending on your stats), perhaps Chapman or LMU if you’re preprofessional. If you want the East Coast, again depending on stats, you have Fordham, Marist, in/near NYC, but also Simmons in Boston, Holy Cross, Clark, Bryn Mawr… All of these would have a closer-knit community than either UCLA or NYU.

And of course that’s assuming your parents have enough money to pay for college ouf of pocket since you won’t get financial aid beside the federal loan; If they don’t, try to “make it work” at UCLA.

A way to make a large university feel small is to take classes few students take (latin, physics…), to get involved in clubs and spend time with the students there (especially academic clubs, since they may organize outings), to try and befriend students in a theme-based Living Learning Community that matches your interests since you’d have things in common, to check out when the Foreign Language Club organizes its weekly table (when people speak the language for dinner) and join it so that you eat dinner with the same people once a week and perhaps plan to go see a foreign-language movie together… (The point isn’t that you love that language, but rather that it’d be a group of people you’d see regularly and with whom you could plan to do things).