I feel like I'm in a dead end college. Would it be pointless to transfer senior year?

Question

My college is not working for me. I've had bad luck scheduling again, and I'm only able to take 12 credits because this school has too many students and too few of classes. So after this year I'll have a grand total of 24 credits for the year. I've gotten bad advising and had to drop several credits in the past being placed in the wrong level of class, and advisors that aren't helpful. Housing has been a living hell and I'm moving into one of the university apartments next year but that is botched too and I got an incorrect assignment and they won't admit we were placed wrong. I just feel like I can't win here. The reason I've stayed so long is that I'm on the track and field team, it's divison 2, my coach was a 5x national champion and we've got the best team in the conference. I love the track team, but I hate the college. I don't know if the team is enough to make me stay here two more years after this. I already feel like I won't be able to graduate in four years now.

We've already signed a lease next year for the apartment, and I'm actually looking forward to living with some friends I actually like. My first year I moved out into a single room, and this year I live with three other girls in one big room and I don't really like them (university assigned). These are my close group of friends I'll be living with. I figure I can get most of my gen-ed's done by the end of next year (3rd year). I'll probably be here more than 4 years. And my friends are leaving half way through fourth year for student teaching, so I wouldn't be living with them again anyways. Even though I love track, I'll probably be skilled enough I can leave such a successful team and do well at another school. I just want to get through college in a timely manner. Be able to have 12 credits a semester here isn't going to work.

Answer 1

It probably wouldn't do you any good to transfer, because the likelihood that you would have to fulfill a new set of requirements is pretty great, so you wouldn't be able to graduate on time there either. It is unfortunate that they are so overcrowded (it isn't true that almost no one graduates in four years any more), but you might as well stick it out. Can you take a couple of classes in summer, perhaps at a community college? That would depend on what you still need to take, of course, but it might help you make up for the units you haven't been able to take.

Answer 2

hardly anyone graduates in 4 years anymore. The only reason I did is because I took classes every summer and even then I graduated late...in August instead of May.

I wouldn't use that to make a decision on whether to switch schools or not. The question you should ask is how well the professors are teaching the material. You will be way more disappointed if you switch to a different college where you aren't learning anything because professors only seem to know how to teach using crappy powerpoint presentations and read straight from the book.