4-year students' attitudes towards transfer students

ocnative
Wed, 09 Jul 2014 01:16:48 +0000

I feel like that attitude from four-year students towards transfers is very real at schools like Cal and UCLA. Not so much the other UC’s, in my opinion.

It’s interesting that the continuing comment is that transfers don’t have to take “weeder classes” and while that’s true, it doesn’t necessarily mean that a transfer is not as competent as a four-year student. What can we even say is “grossly subpar”? The thread is ridiculous but it’s kind of shocking to see many pages of hate against transfer students.

It doesn’t mean that all students are like that, as you said @Cayton. But I feel that it’s the lower-division students that carry this negative attitude. They graduate from high school being in the top of their class and expect to be around with the best at their university. When they find out about transfers coming in from community college, it’s no doubt they’ll feel transfers are inferior to them.

But who cares, right? It doesn’t even matter if you’re a four-year student or transfer. At the end of the day, we’re just all students at Cal or UCLA or wherever.