USC (Economics) vs. Penn State (Finance)

mpball28
Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:51:01 +0000

I am in a similar situation as you, since I am thinking about transferring to USC from University of Illinois(which I narrowly picked over PSU), am already in the B-school at Illinois, and am transferring for similar reasons.(bad location, cold weather, 45,000+ kids is ridic)
Assuming you will be a junior this upcoming fall, I don’t think its too late to transfer and transferring from a big school like PSU to another large school like USC shouldn’t make your credits disappear and force you to do a few extra semesters. Work hard and at most it might be one extra semester. If you want to work on Wall Street, staying at Penn State might be the better option since its closer and has better connections to NYC than USC does, but if you want to live/work in SoCal, I’d take USC. USC has warmer weather, its in a great city, and is overall a great school. PSU is an awesome school as well, but the fact that you are doubting it in general and have given such serious thought to leaving shows that it might not be the place where you really want to be. I’m not gonna take a side here, but if you get that financial aid you wanted, you should really take a good hard look at USC. Starting a new collegiate social life on the complete other side of the country and leaving your friends behind might be tough, but if you truly think USC would be better for you than PSU, go for it.