Word: transferals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WHEN TRANSFERS are the subjects of intense interest from their fellow students it is too often a clinical interest. What is it about a student who would transfer schools that makes it impossible for him to be satisfied? How can anyone be critical enough to be miserable enough to leave his college...
Most of a transfer's first conversations here go a lot like this: You're a transfer student? From where? Why'd you transfer? Do you like it here? A friend of mine was asked these questions so often that he put his responses down on notecards and held up the right ones when conversation became too predictable...
...Transfers have to deal with institutions before coming to other students need to be concerned. The administration here effectively sets transfer students apart immediately after inviting them to join the Harvard community: With the admissions letter comes the warning that there will be no place on campus for you. At no other college, except perhaps Yale, is the housing system so integral to the undergraduate experience. The University describes in glowing terms the role of the houses in providing the basis for social activities. Everything from eating meals to participating in the numerous house organizations is supposed...
Housing policy, which has changed three times in the past three years, nonetheless denies on-campus housing to transfers at least for their first semester at Harvard. After that, transfer students may enter a lottery to gain affiliation--but not housing--in one of the residential houses. As an affiliate, one may be invited to live in the house, or one may not be--it is completely up to the individual house master. The overcrowding of recent years has meant that most transfer students have been lucky to be on campus for as little as one-third of their time...
...DOES the University's housing policy isolate the 50 or so transfer students who arrive here each year? It's true that we take classes with other undergraduates, that we can eat meals in the residential dining halls with other students, that we have as much access to University facilities as others. But while walking a few blocks to supper is not so bad, knowing no one in the dining hall is no fun at all. Although most sophomores spend their time meeting new housemates, transfer students usually become friendly primarily with fellow transfers. It takes longer, perhaps only after...