<p>I'm an incoming junior transfer for fall 2011 and I'm just curious as to how some current Michigan students regard transfer students. Has anybody here had any experience talking to transfer students? Do they seem to fit in well? How are transfer students generally perceived within the UM student community? </p>
<p>Advice or input from traditional UM students as well as transfers would be much appreciated. I'm really just curious about whether transfer student life is in any real way different from student life of four-year Wolverines.</p>
<p>i know a few transfers at the ME dept and have no problem interacting with them like I do with others who started at UM. I usually tell them good luck cuz they’re in for a fun ride with the engin classes cuz they’re a bit different from CC courses, in a good way to warn them. Most of them end up doing pretty OK relative to others, but they work hard too.</p>
<p>Most of them commute, so I don’t really hangout with them outside of class. But honestly once you’re in, no one is going to care if you are a transfer. You can strike a convo and make friends with most people.</p>
<p>So far as I know there aren’t really any perceptions. I was a junior transfer from a CC and just graduated last week. I and all the other transfer students I know had kind of a hard time finding a niche, it felt to me sort of like being a freshman as a junior and that was really uncomfortable because I didn’t really fit in with the freshmen OR the juniors, but it got better. The only reactions I ever got from traditional students about my being a transfer were, “oh that’s cool,” or “that must be really hard.”</p>