Leaving USC due to major
Currently a sophomore transfer at USC and unhappy with my major. The school is great and enjoying it, but im not doing what i want to do and feel like its not worth going there due to this especially since im from the eastcoast. I am a English major looking to be a part of usc marshall through the internal transfer but if i were to do this I would need to spend an extra year there which means both more time and tuition (thats if im accepted). So thinking of staying home this spring semester, doing online courses, and hopefully transfer to a t10 school like a Cornell, nyu, or penn as a business major this time. Right now sitting with a 4.0 gpa with a confident feeling that I have a great shot at these schools. What do you guys think?
Speaking as a student at Penn (Wharton), pretty sure the website says that you can’t transfer if you’re already a sophomore. If they somehow let you, you’d 100% have to do at least a fifth year. At that point you might as well stay at USC and apply for Marshall.
I would say make sure that the school you’re transferring to is not a 4-year direct admit program from HS like Wharton is. Not sure about what the other schools are like
Your GPA is going to solve a lot of problems for you. Not entirely sure which path to take, but #1 piece of advice by far is keep those grades up no matter what you do.
I'm confused about staying home and taking online courses. What would those courses be for . . pre-req's for the business programs?
As previous commenter said, it wouldn't make a lot of sense to transfer if it means taking another year just as Marshall is asking you to do.
My first thought is apply to all those programs now (presumably a lot more than the ones you mentioned . . UVA, UNC, Georgetown, ND, Michigan etc . . at least some of these are not direct-admit programs from HS so you'd be entering on an even playing field). I'm assuming not all of them will have the class year restriction that Wharton has. If the transfer to another program doesn't work out, a high GPA Econ major is going to be competitive for many of the same roles that a business/finance major will be.
Obvi my answer is based on not fully understanding the situation, happy to answer any follow up either here in the forum or in the messages.
Yes, so basically the classes I would taking online would be prereqs for the business schools I apply to, so that I get directly admitted to the business program in fall, rather than wait til next spring at usc without knowing if I will get in or not while also saving money.
Gotcha.
Wouldn't there be a lot of overlap between those pre-reqs and the classes you'd take if you started pursuing an Econ major? So I'm thinking you could take that set of classes at USC, and they'd serve as your pre-reqs, and then also serve as progress toward an Econ degree at USC if the transfer doesn't work out. What's the issue with that?
Is this accurate? Current sophomore with a 4.0 and not really worrying ab grades that much as IB recruiting is kicking off for SA 2024 and ive been spending most of my time on networking calls and cold emailing.
Granted I go to a non target SEC school, but ive heard anything between a 3.8-4.0 means the same.
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