<p>Back in the 1970's, it was rare to see transfer students on campus.</p>
<p>They seemed to lack the deep friendships that arise from the first two years of college life. It seems the first two years you are seaching for friends to live in an apartment for the last two year. </p>
<p>Do transfer students find the adjustment to social life more difficult? thus a more miserable experience.</p>
<p>I’m a transfer student, and I assimilated well into UCD. I live in a dorm with 3 other people (in the Cuarto residence halls, all the rooms are in a suite arrangement. Cuarto is where a majority of transfer students are put). I did not spend the 1st 2 years finding friends to live in an apartment with–in fact, I went to community college in Southern California and most people I went to CC with, even my friends from high school, would rather stay in SoCal than transfer to a university up in northern California.</p>
<p>Why would you think the adjustment to social life is more difficult? We STILL have a social life back in community college, even if we don’t live in dorms. 
I was heavily involved in clubs back at community college. The only difference is that there’s a lot more to do at a university than at a community college. </p>
<p>Not all transfer students are the same. Me, I’m a very introverted person, so it’s taking me a while to get used to the idea of having a roommate who isn’t my sister (though I’m used to it now). I also quickly got used to hearing people on the floor above me party until 2am in the mornings on Fridays and Saturdays. My roommate, however, is a very extroverted person and immediately got into the swing of things her first week. The other people in my hall also got heavily involved with what’s going on on campus during their 1st week.</p>
<p>what kind of stupid question is this? Of course we have a social life. You act as if transfer students stopped being social right after high school. A person who is social is always social, and a person who was that shy kid who always sits in the back in high school unless there’s a seating assignment is going to eventually open up to people around him/her (like me).</p>
<p>I think OP’s question was misinterpreted. Not that it is difficult to adjust to social life in general, but difficult to adjust to the social scene at the new school because people already know each other as sophomores and juniors, whereas you know no one (presumably) at the start of your sophomore/junior year after transferring. </p>
<p>I don’t see it taking any longer to adjust than it does for an incoming freshman. If you’re social, you’re social despite who you’re around or at what year you attend a school. You can still find people to get an apartment with even if you don’t necessarily know them. For example, say 3 friends decide to get an apartment, but they want the rent to be cheaper so they start looking for a 4th person they think they’d get along with.</p>