Re: Integration of Transfers

katbenc
Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:00:38 +0000

I don’t know of any mid-year transfers that live with freshmen, and I’ve heard you can’t live in freshman dorms if you’re over 21. Either way, even freshmen can move out of the freshman dorms spring semester, so I don’t think there’s a chance of being placed there against your will. Almost all upperclassmen live in the dorms (Amherst only lets at most 50 students off campus), and most of the dorms are small enough that it’s really easy to get to know the people you live with and integrate into the student body. Having some sort of activity or club certainly speeds up the process, but as long as you make an effort, it will be easy to make friends. And while a lot of the junior class studies abroad, it is usually just for a semester.