<p>One of the colleges that I might want to go to this fall as a transfer is Daniel Webster College. I heard it has about 1,000 students and it is small. Is it possible to get a good social life at a small college like DWC? I just simply want to meet as many new people as possible.</p>
<p>Well I transferred from a small school of about 1500 to a school with 6,000 and am a lot happier. At my other school everyone would immediately know your business, and there was SO much more gossip. The parties tended to have the same exact people, the same active groups did all of the clubs, and I just disliked it. Now if I meet someone I don’t like, my chances of running into them again are slimmer and there is so much more diversity and I really love my social life here in comparison. However many people do like that smaller school feel, however I prefer something inbetween.</p>
<p>It depends. My school is around 1,800, split between two campuses, and it’s small enough that you know most people there (except for the new freshmen). I did notice, though, that almost immediately people formed into cliques in my freshman year. It’s pretty much like a 5th year of high school here–you see the same people all the time, you hear gossip about the same people all the time, you’re more likely to get put into not one but two or three classes with whatever annoying person you can’t stand to be in the same room with the most, and people don’t generally socialize much out of their cliques. It’s spread out a bit since last year, so more people socialize with people they didn’t talk to last year, but it’s still a small school. I’m pretty sure most small schools are like this. If it weren’t for the smaller class size and the fact that my school’s the best for my major, I’d probably transfer to a larger school.</p>
<p>^^ That is precisely why I refused to go to a small school. I went to a huge high school and after that I was never going back.</p>