As if you didn’t think college was hectic enough, lets toss in your decision to transfer! I’ll admit that transferring as an American student is much easier than transferring as a foreigner, but, hey, …transferring is never easy.

     Lets start with the facts of transferring: First thing you have to do is pick your school or schools. Some students have multiple schools. I’ll use myself as an example: I’ve opted to apply to Wake Forest University and the University of North Carolina - Wilmington, and seeing as how I am finishing my freshman year, I am no longer a candidate to apply as a freshman. That leaves me with the option of applying as a transfer. Now, this includes filling out the application, requesting transcripts from both high school and all post-graduate schools (meaning every college you have attended since your high school graduation). You also have to get the dean’s recommendation, and a teacher’s recommendation is always welcomed.

     Now, once you have everything in, there isn’t much else you can do! Wait, wait, and more waiting! That’s always the hardest part of the whole application process. Now everyone knows that when you receive your letter of information from the school, the small envelope is a decline, and a large envelope is an acceptance! Now, let’s keep our fingers crossed, because, I’m really hoping to get that large envelope from both Wake Forest University and the University of North Carolina - Wilmington.

     Lets assume that I get accepted, my problems don’t end there, I now have to leave all the friends I’ve made, all the teachers I’ve grown accustomed to, and all my familiar settings, to start college “again” as if it were the first time. For someone like me, who makes friends easily, and gets along well with both adults and people my own age, it won’t be so hard, but I’ll be suddenly dumped into a dorm where I will have to share my room for the first time in my life. Each transfer student’s situation is individual, but the one thing that is typical for all, is that it’s never easy! As in a race with hurdles, this is just another obstacle to overcome, and with the grace and ease with which we young adults seem to handle life, we will overcome anything and everything that is tossed our way, and we WILL survive!


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