Transferring

[Matt.9:22]

Has anyone here transferred schools? I'm considering transferring schools because my department is really weak at the school I currently attend and I was trying to get all the information I could before I make a decision. So is there anything you wish someone had told you before you transferred?

--this is more for university to university transfer rather than community college to university transfer.

gracias muchisimo!

 

[septemberskies]

I'm transferring after this fall semester now from one university to another so i'm also moving in Jan.

It would be great to get a heads up from friends or associates that go to the university your interested in before transferring... its even better if they have the same major so they can tell you what the courses and program track is like.

If you don't know anyone at the school your thinking about then i suggest you go to www.ratemyprofessor.com and look up the school and professors for your major and see how the students grade them. Most of the time, the students are pretty acurate and you can determine whether the professors are on average terrible there... besides what good is going to a college where the teaching is terrible? The whole point is to learn and not get caught up or stuck somewhere.

Other than that, I guess the only things i can suggest is that you visit with the school your thinking about transfering to, find out their major course requirements (as each univ. even in the same state may differ sightly), find out what's the typical class room size, find out if you have alot of variety to choose from in terms of class availability at a particular campus(for instance, some universities only have 2 speech classes available during the fall and is not even taught in the summer... that could effect when your thinking about graduating or set you back a semester because classes get booked up early), think about whether its cost effective, the location,and compare it to other schools.

Hope that helps....

 

[ZACTAK]

Transferring from a community college to a university is virtually the same as transferring from university to university.. or at least it is in Missouri. The thing I wish I was told is that if I don't get a degree at my first school, that some of my credits would not transfer to my new school. I didn't realize that until I was looking into schools to transfer to. It ended up putting me behind a semester!

 

[RollTideRyan]

I hear back in 2 days to see if I am accepted as a transfer student from The University of Alabama to the University of Virginia. Wish me luck!

 

[septemberskies]

I hear back in 2 days to see if I am accepted as a transfer student from The University of Alabama to the University of Virginia. Wish me luck!

Hey that's great Let us know how that goes.

 

[eutychus]

I've transferred from a liberal arts university to a Bible College for educational/theological purposes.

I'm now dual-enrolling with the Bible College and a state institution.

I knew both schools to which I've transferred to well, so there weren't really that many questions I need answers. My advice is to think of all the things you wish you would have done before you began attending your current institution.