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Is this the best idea?

Asked by blueberry_kid (5957points) January 15th, 2017

I’m at a cross-roads and I need an un-biased answer.

At my current college, Hanover College, a 4 Year Liberal Arts School, I have a full tuition scholarship and am only required to pay for room and board. I’ve met a lot of great people and the school isn’t terrible, but it doesn’t have my major that I’ve really wanted to study. I’ve come to like computer science, but I’m not sure if that’s what I necessarily like to study for the next four years of college. I’ve already become pretty comfortable with the campus, and I have my car on campus so I can pretty much go where I want. Hanover College, though, is in rural southern Indiana, and I absolutely hate it here. I hate the people, I hate being in the middle of no where, and I don’t really like all of the students on campus. That being said, I do love the small classes and getting to know everyone so quickly.

I’ve applied to 4 schools and have already gotten accepted in one school that I favored for a while. I want to study Industrial Design. At Hanover, it is possible to receive a minor in design, but it’s pretty broad as far a coverage of course material. The school I’d really love to go to is Rochester Institute of Technology, because I love everything about it. I haven’t visited yet, which has a lot to do with the reaction toward the school, but it has everything I could possibly love.

I don’t know if I should transfer at all. I would love to have a job designing, whether it be graphic, product, or anything really, and I’d be fine with going to graduate school, considering I’m not paying hardly anything for undergraduate, but Hanover has been hard for me to learn to love. The scholarship program I’m in promotes social justice and cultural diversity on campus, and tries to educate the community about the dame things, and I love everyone involved with the program, but it’s hard to do that in an area of people that don’t want to listen, and even harder when the only people that want to make a change are us. At first I thought the school was a perfect match, but now that I’m starting to realize what I want to do with my life, I’m starting to grow further apart from the school.

I really just don’t know what to do and I need someone other than my family, peers, and roommates are advising me to do.

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janbb's avatar

Visit the school before making any decision. Sit in on some classes, stay overnight. Check out the city and see how you feel about being there in the winter. Get some more info before deciding. It sounds like you have some cogent reasons to make the switch but don’t jump until you know more.

And have you figured out how the financing will work?

blueberry_kid's avatar

@janbb Well, I’m kind of banking on transfer scholarships and financial aid to help out. The one school I’ve already been accepted, University of Bridgeport, gave me a lot that I really appreciate and could help, but I’ll still be paying about $2,000 more than I do now. My mom is helping me out with my room and board here, thankfully, but I don’t want crazy student loans.

JLeslie's avatar

Transfer!

You will make new friends and settle in at your new school. Visit the campus of the schools that have the degree you want if you haven’t already. If you can transfer this coming school year do it.

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