Word: transferals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Robinson was a sophomore, exceptions to the rules can be made, and she was able to transfer out of Eliot after just a week. Extenuating circumstances or medical reason can be ground for a sophomore interhouse transfer, Colvin says...
After implementating the new rule, transfers dropped dramatically. The following January only 25 people applied for a transfer, according to Colvin. Even after adjustment for the absence of sophomores this represents a decrease of 77 percent in overall transfers...
Most of the people who transfer do so for specific reasons. Colvin says that the majority of applications have only one or two choices listed, indicating that students are more interested in moving into a new house than out of their old one. McNally says that most of the transfers she has seen in her eight years at Dunster House occur "because people want to move closer to their friends...
Elizondo says he wanted to avoid that "transient feeling" he got from commuting back and forth to the Quad. He says he made his final decision to transfer one morning at about 7 a.m. when he was riding down to practice on his bicycle...
...only one on the waterpolo team who was living in the Quad so I was all alone riding to practice. Suddenly, I [was almost hit by] a car, and I realized at that moment that I had to transfer...