<p>I’ve heard Mt Hood CC has a strong music program. Being in Portland, it’s nice you have some good options.</p>
<p>As far as socially adjusting, I don’t think that’s a big problem. UO is a big school so students go in and out of situations (classes, clubs, jobs, etc) that put them in contact with other students all the time. </p>
<p>My daughter started college a bit younger than most students, so when she transferred to UO she opted for a freshman dorm. She was a sophomore in terms of the number of credits she had, but age-wise she was closer to a typical freshman. If your daughter wants to have that dorm experience, though, there is an upperclassmen dorm too. Lots of students move off-campus after their freshman year. My daughter has ended up really not liking the living-in-a-hive aspect of dorm life, so she and another girl (who she met because she’s a friend of a friend) are moving into an apartment a couple blocks from campus next year. Living off-campus will actually end up being somewhat cheaper than the dorms.</p>
<p>There is a student housing office where students are advertising, looking for off-campus roommates all the time.</p>
<p>Generally speaking, my daughter is more of a task-oriented type of kid than a people person. She has her small group of friends she’s made there, and she’s very happy with that, but mostly she’s just extremely busy – she’s taking 18 units every term, plays in the symphonic band, works 8 to 10 hours a week at her job, is on the literary magazine staff… and a lot of the remaining time she’s studying, writing papers, etc. So, I’d say for her personality structure, socially her adjustment has been just fine. For a more out-going social people-oritented person the path could be a little different, but those people also put out a lot more energy toward establishing a lively social circle than my kid.</p>
<p>UO is a busy, friendly place though. It seems to me that a person could build whatever kind of social environment they like for themselves there without much effort.</p>