<p>Do the transfer students blend in well?
I heard that transfer students are looked down with prejudice...is this just a stupid rumor?
cornell has always been my dream school but I know I won't get in so I am thinking of transferring after my freshman year</p>
<p>My stepsister transferred to Cornell after her freshman year and loves it, as far as I know. It’s probably a rumor started by a bitter minority.</p>
<p>And no one wears a sign on their forehead that says “Transfer student” so the idea really wouldn’t be brought up unless someone have never seen you before and decides to ask.</p>
<p>I don’t hide that I’m a transfer student…haven’t had anybody react negatively yet</p>
<p>I’m a transfer student. No, transfer students are not treated negatively at all.</p>
<p>The downside to being a transfer, though, is that I feel a lot of cliques and circles are made during Freshman year being that everyone is on North, all the dorms are really close, and everyone wants to get out and meet people. As a transfer, I certainly have my own close-knit circle of friends, but sometimes I wish I came in my freshman year just to get to know more people.</p>
<p>The transfer community is very very friendly and unusually close. I couldn’t imagine a better transfer pool. Registration can be out of whack depending on which school you go to though.</p>
<p>That rumor is false. I transferred here this year and am adjusting quite well. Most people are very friendly when they find out I’m a transfer and after about a month I felt completely integrated into the Cornell community. The hardest part is making friends with non-transfers, since most people already have a group.</p>
<p>Nobody ever has to know you’re a transfer. There are a lot of sophomore transfers walking around amongst freshmen and nobody knows the difference. The junior transfers may look and feel a little older, and they may have to stick with fellow transfer students for a while. But if you get out and around, you’ll make friends of all types.</p>
<p>Yep what everyones saying is pretty much true. I’m a transfer this year, and I had no trouble adjusting. The other transfers are really really friendly, so it’s easy to make friends. I think the transfers kind of stick together in the beginning at least (my group of closest friends that I met at the beginning of the semester are nearly all transfers) but as the weeks go on you’ll meet a lot of non-transfers through your classes and activities and you fit in just fine. And like a few people said, no one has to know you’re a transfer unless you feel like mentioning it in passing, and generally people don’t care. I’m sure there may be a few ******* students or professors out there that may judge you and look down on you for it, but I haven’t met any yet.</p>
<p>I transferred after my first semester freshman year, and certainly had some difficulty at first. When I transferred 3 years ago, there was a dorm on West called the Transfer Center, in which they housed all transfers regardless if they were a freshman or not. I actually enjoyed that; but the next semester they tore the building down and transfers have been housed in odd places around campus, some as the furthest buildings up north, (the town houses) or in a midplace between collegetown and the downtown Commons (Schulyer House). But in terms of students and professors, no one really looks down upon you. I actually really hang out with all transfers since they are the people I transferred with/lived with and now I’m in a transfer fraternity.</p>