<p>So I was looking through housing and it seems that the school is implying that all transfers are required to live with other transfers @ Porter and not with their college. Has anyone ever heard of any transfer that got around this? Its not that I don't want to room and mingle with other transfers, but I think this whole "community" idea is ridiculous. Freshman get thrown in the college system straight out of high school, and I think I'm old enough to adapt to new environments faster. I rather meet my college mates that I'm affiliated with rather than be secluded. Any answers/comments are greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>It is ridiculous. It segregates transfers as if they either need to be coddled or are less capable than those who came in as frosh. I have been fighting since it was first put in to have it removed.</p>
<p>Transfers have the option of transfer community, university town center, and village. Those transfers wishing to live in campus housing must choose one. There is no way around this.</p>
<p>I highly urge you to file a complaint. It really is not okay they do this. Some do love it, but they have not experienced the greatness of living with your college affiliation. And they seem to neglect the part that transfers will have to live somewhere else (transfer community at least) for their senior year.</p>
<p>I’m sorry they’ve done this to you. I was lucky enough to miss it.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info! I will file a complaint and see if this can be changed in the future. I don’t know why they don’t set a separate hall for transfers in the college that they’re actually affiliated with instead of just at Porter. Hopefully ucsc will take this suggestion into consideration</p>
<p>They did used to have the option for a transfer theme hall (at least at Porter… I’m sure the others did as well). The best part? It was an option. The apartments used to be heavily transfers as well.</p>
<p>Just be articulate and make sure to express exactly why you feel the community is not necessary to you or potentially harmful if you believe it is. Maybe the more people that complain, the more chance there is of getting things back to the way they were when I started.</p>
<p>I didn’t mention it in my previous post, but the community has more than an impact on transfers. It heavily affects Porterites as well. The first year it was implemented, we were promised building A as the upperclassmen building and told there would be plenty of room for all Porterites wanting to live on campus. A few months later, we were told our building now belonged only to new transfers. Several Porterites have been forced out due to lack of space and must live at other colleges/locations because of the loss of an entire building :(</p>
<p>I’m so happy an incoming transfer gets why the community is a problem :)</p>
<p>Wow! I had no idea how this community immensely affected students at Porter. I believe that transfers should be accommodated with housing, but not at the huge expense of continuing students. Hopefully this is just an experiment that will be thrown out along with other bad ideas.</p>
<p>The only saving grace was that Porter already had low numbers due to the rennovations being done to each dorm building.</p>
<p>Transfer community was implemented 2010-2011 academic year. February 2010, we were told there would be plenty of room for all Porterites with the opening of the rennovated building and that it would be considered the upperclassmen building (to accommodate the rate saver option continuing students are given if they choose dorms). When the transfer community was announced awhile later, we were told it would be an even mix. A day before we were to choose rooms, we were told it would have one floor dedicated to Porterite upperclassmen (I have this in an email sent out). The day of choosing rooms, we were told sorry, there was no room for Porter students in a Porter building. I made sure housing knew how furious I was.</p>
<p>It’s the side few will tell you (and I can’t seem to shut my mouth about, haha!). This whole housing situation is also compounded by the fact Kresge students who wanted the rate saver option (they have no dorms) were given equal access to Porter at the time as well (I actually saw nothing wrong with this as Kresge is Porter’s sister college and they weren’t being given a whole building just for them).</p>
<p>This is going to be its third year. I really hope they get the message soon it does more harm than good. Only benefit it has that one could not get before is being closer to STARS (transfer exclusive advising). Every other listed benefit could be had previously.</p>