What do you do if your not happy at your current school?

student23456543
Sun, 30 Oct 2016 05:42:30 +0000

So first let me give you some background. I am a freshman at the university of Maryland. I am currently studying biomedical engineering with pre-med. I got a 2220 SAT and a 4.0 GPA in high school. The sole reason I chose UMD was because I had received a full academic scholarship. I got into other schools like Georgetown and Georgia tech. Even though my parents could comfortably pay my tuition if I went to those places, it just made more economical sense to me to go to UMD.

I knew that this was a big decision and I shouldn’t let money make it. So I made sure 100% that I would like it here. I visited the campus several times, as well as shadowed a student my spring semester of high school. I even went so far as emailing a chemistry professor trying to convince him to let me sit in on a class. With all that, I felt comfortable that I wanted to go here.

But it all changed within the first week I was here. I was a pretty social person in HS, I went to parties a lot, I played 2 sports. But making friends at UMD seem impossible for me. I went to a few frat parties and socials. But nothing came out of it. I live in a single so I don’t have a roommate. The kids on my floor are mostly art/music majors so I don’t interact with them a lot. I’m not sure what it is, but making friends was hard. they only kids I was talking to were the ones I had class with, and that was only about school. I tried even harder and joined a club, but it got boring so I quit that. All in all UMD wasn’t what i expected.

So my question is: What do I do now?

I’m probably gonna try and transfer out next year, but is there anything i can do now?

What colleges accept spring transfers?