Since enrolling at Elon University, my experience has been a positive one; my environment is collegial, comfortable and constant. There is a rhythm to the school that is palpable, and while many of my peers believe it is the right place for them – I am looking for something different. I desire a setting with an even stronger academic rigor and more expansive external stimulus. When choosing a college, I envisioned a community where I would be surrounded by students willing...

The undergraduate application in this profile is the essay that I wrote when trying to transfer from Elon University to University of Richmond. The goal of the essay was to explain why I thought it was important enough to leave the known for the unknown. It was a difficult choice to try to leave Elon and the friends I had made there because there was no way to really know if it was going to be better at Richmond until...

Transferring to a new school is a daunting decision. It is difficult to know whether it will really be better at a new school until you get there. The...