<p>I'm currently at a community college in california and looking to transfer out. One thing i'm having trouble figuring out is whether or not to live in a dorm my first year on campus or in an apartment. I'm just afraid I'm going to be a transfer student, and i'm going to be looked as the black sheep. So I was just hoping someone could shed some light, and give me a good idea of the best option for a transfer student.</p>
<p>im a transfer student in cali and i chose the apartment option. im living in the university owned apartments so there r lots of upperclassmen in them with me and i have three roommates. so obviously i would say that university owned apartments r the way to go. they arent filled with underclassmen like the dorms and u get to still meet a bunch of other people</p>
<p>I’m going to be a transfer student from a community college. But since I’m going to an out-of-state college, I’m choosing to live off of campus so that I can obtain state residency and qualify for in-state tuition.</p>
<p>You can maybe think about living on campus for a year to experience dorm life and make friends and then if you dont like it/want a change you can live off campus.</p>
<p>Oh and you want be a black sheep. A lot of people are transfers and nobody will even know unless you tell them or its a small school.</p>
<p>The university owned apartments seem like a good idea. One reason I’m having this dilemma, is I don’t to miss some of the more fun aspects of college. Along with getting a great education, I also want to have fun, if you know what I mean. So, I’m just trying to weigh all my options and not limit myself. </p>
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<p>If your school is similar to my school, the majority of students live off campus besides incoming freshmen and athletes ( I think). However my school do have a dorm design specifically for transfer and upperclassmen. I would look at that option, or university owned apartments. If you decided to dorm with freshmen I doubt it would be awful, just that most students prefer dorm style rooms for one year.</p>
<p>Where do you go coolbreeze?
The colleges I’m going to be applying to all have a pretty lively social scene. I’m trying to go to UMich, UWash, USC, and vanderbilt, there are a few others I’ll be applying to, but those are my main choices. </p>
<p>One incentive about Vanderbilt is that there is no off-campus living. Only about 10% of the students live off campus at vandy. </p>
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<p>I plan to transfer in the Spring and i’m probably going to live on campus if I can. I’ve learned that that’s the best way to get to know the layout of the school.</p>
<p>I would definitely say live off campus. I also transfered from community college, but I lived in a dorm. Dorm life really isn’t all people say it is. It’s fun for the first week or two, but then you start missing having privacy, a bathroom that you don’t have to share with a ton of people, and actual space to move around and store stuff in. Most dorms are terrible quality and are about the size of a jail cell. They look and feel like you’re in jail, too! Plus you would be moving in with a lot of freshmen and trust me, even though they’re only a couple of years younger you can still tell that they’re not as mature/responsible as you!</p>
<p>Okay well UWash is basically in Seattle, USC is in LA, and Vanderbilt is in Nashville so off campus housing should be great. I attend the University of Iowa and although there is great on campus housing, being that Iowa City is a great college town, off campus housing is terrific.</p>
<p>As for Vandy, if only 10 percent live off campus I think it may be better to live on campus.</p>
<p>I really want to live on campus, either for a semester or a full year. It’s just one of those things about college i want to experience. Being a transfer student, i feel as if i missed out a big portion of the college experience. I’m just worried as if i live in a dorm, especially for my first time there, i’ll surrounded by 18-19 year olds. It’s not that i don’t want to hang out with them, i just don’t want to that to be my only option as a 21 year old. </p>
<p>Coolbrezze: That’s a tiny incentive the Vandy has. I wouldn’t feel odd there since everyone is in the dorms.</p>
<p>I was a transfer and lived on campus. I was treated fine. Going to community college was just part of my background, as far as I was concerned, and I found out that if you’re cool about it, people will be cool about it to you. Frankly, I had a lot of fun living on campus. (Although freshmen are a total pain, but they die off as the year rolls on.)</p>