When to tell your roommate and closest friends you are transferring?

[ucbalumnus]

@Publisher

Reminds me of my college freshman year when three of the nicest & most interesting classmates held guaranteed transfer options for Cornell University. All were open & honest about their situations.

Was this at a four year college?

Do such guaranteed transfer options allow students to do the first year at a low cost community college? If so, another advantage of starting at a community college would be that transferring is a common intention, so there would be no social stigma for announcing that intention.