'A Second Freshman Year': Harvard’s Transfer Students

blevine
Wed, 14 Feb 2018 22:51:04 +0000

Though this may be in the Harvard forum, it is a universal issue for students at other colleges that take on few transfer students, and to some extent even at colleges many transfer students. My S transferred to Cornell, and while they have lots of transfer students, and some transfer orientation for the first weekend, after that, you are on your own, socially. There are many services available to new students, freshman and transfers alike, but socially there is not much after the first weekend. They do have an academic support office for new students. But for instance, most returning sophs live in a particular set of dorms and few transfers are placed there with their academic/age peers.
Yes there are more transfers, but it’s a big school and they are scattered across many dorms and classrooms.
It is tough, you don’t feel settled in until you are a junior and your already starting to think about life after college.
Not a Harvard problem at all.