<p>How well do transfers fit in at Duke? Is there a coherent community or are they just scattered with the rest of the students?</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure they're scattered, but I could be wrong. They used to stick them together in Trent (an old, crappy building practically on Central Campus), but they stopped doing that. There's several transfer students in my German class (one from Georgia Tech, one from UF, and one from somewhere else), and they haven't had a hard time fitting in at all. There's events and advisors for transfers.
<a href="http://orientation.studentaffairs.duke.edu/programs-student/orientation/transfer-students/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://orientation.studentaffairs.duke.edu/programs-student/orientation/transfer-students/index.html</a></p>
<p>bump; do transfers have much of a problem finding friends and such, since most people joined a frat/formed their group of friends during freshman year?</p>
<p>Nope... you meet a lot of the transfers your first year, and then you sort of branch out from there. It's really common for a transfer to rush a sorority or fraternity (or selective living group) during the year... maybe it's daunting at first (I wouldn't know)-- but in time it works out really well</p>
<p>Bluestar's right - I know one transfer who joined Duke's chapter of the fraternity he joined at his old college. I don't know much else about transfer students, though...</p>