<p>Hey everyone, do you have any advice for those of us few that were able to successfully transfer to Columbia? Anything special you'd say that doesn't normally apply to freshman? i.e., any specific ways of making up for that loss of a first year dorm culture, making friends, finishing the core in less time?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Try to fit in and be yourself; don't try to go out of your way to prove yourself and how you belong to your peers, thereby showing a major inferiority complex.</p>
<p>Columbia's right, he said it perfectly. I've got nothing to add except a quick anecdote. I was assigned to a group for my Gateway class and we had this student who didn't talk much at first but a week later out of nowhere, he was incessantly trying to take charge and racing to get to an idea quicker. We had no idea what was going on until we found out he lived on a non-freshman building. When we asked him about it, he mumbled he was a transfer. Point of the story: If he hadn't been embarrassed about and try to compensate we wouldn't have known or even cared. I wouldn't worry about too much, the people at Columbia are very nice. With all the GS and Barnard students around, we don't have as high a superiority complex as most people would think.</p>
<p>Thx for the advice, guys. Sounds great!</p>