I’m going into UMich as a sophomore transfer student from New York. I saw on the housing page that they provide the transfer year experience housing where transfer students get to make friends with other transfer. However, this is located at Northwood III, which is supposed to be a bit far from central campus and is isolated from most of campus. Does anyone have any experience with the transfer living experience? Should I do it or should I just apply for housing at central campus where students are a bit more social?
I am also going to be a Sophomore transfer student next year, however I have decided not to probably not do the Transfer Experience. It depends on what housing is available when I sign up, and if the only dorms left are ones on North Campus I will probably do whatever I can to not have to live in North.
I was told by some current students who were some of the last to pick housing (it’s a lottery, so they were forced to be later) that the only dorms left available for them to choose from were ones on North Campus; everything else was full. I emailed housing asking if they reserve dorms for transfer students and if dorms would be available on central campus but they would not say. Kind of frustrating.
I tried to do some research into Transfer Connections though and could not find much. The only experience I read was from an old college confidential thread from someone saying that their mentor in the program did not do anything and that they didn’t gain much from joining. It seemed to me like a lot of cheesy friendship building activities which I’m not particularly interested in.
I’m in Transfer Connections. The people who run it try their best, but honestly, a lot of the activities there are sort of the “cheesy friendship building” activities @thericeinthehice described. That, or very broad and generic activities designed to appeal to many people (like a tour of the law school, or the med school, or trip to basketball games), which is fine I guess, but as a junior STEM student I’m really more interested in going to science-events unaffiliated with TC. I’m finding a niche in clubs like SPS, MHacks, and going to various lectures offered by the physics/math departments instead, so I find myself actually skimming over most of the TC emails I receive or not reading them at all.