tell me about the clique-ishness

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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<p>I transferred to the elite public high school here in the affluent suburbs of Chicago in the middle of freshman year. Everyone knew each other from junior high; I knew no one. I'm an outgoing guy and I do a lot of stuff (but no parties, alcohol, or drugs), so I make a lot of friends. However, whenever I now (junior year) walk around the cafeteria, I see plenty of people with whom I would eat if he/she were alone or with one other person. However, they all sit with their huge junior high group, and suddenly they are completely closed to me, intentionally or not. They hang out with their own little clique and do stuff together. Therefore I find my group of friends (which is awesome) among those precious few that don't apply to the above - other transfers, non-'popular' people (who are actually really cool people), geeks, nerds, and the math team (which is hilarious). </p>

<p>Is this what UNC is like? It's the only thing that scares me. I love my group of friends, but I also don't love having 95% of the student body closed off by exclusive friend groups from junior high. I've heard a lot of these cliques come straight from NC high schools to UNC. </p>

<p>So tell me...UNC = my high school?</p>

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<p>UNC is kinda of "clique-is", but thats just normal in life for people to find a group similiar to them. People come together and for them they are they "in-group" and they will form positive views about their group members and those that aren't in their group is the "out-group" and subjective to a biasis impression. basic human behavioral psychology.</p>

<p>Now when I came to Carolina I made friends those friends are the ones who I would typically hang out with and eat with, but when I wasn't around them I made other friends and through them I met their friends and so forth. </p>

<p>Also don't get the impression that this is anything like high school, because its not. Its a large student body and if you perposly try to close yourself off from types of people than thats really the only way that you would be excluded from them.</p>