Comments on: Coming and going, transfer students look for the perfect “fit”

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:12:01 +0000

Actually, about 33% of 1000 transfers were accepted last year, so there are quite a few.

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:02:33 +0000

I am a transfer student and I feel like I have read more articles about transfers, transferring, the Transfer House, and social abnormality this year than I thought possible. Perhaps, because such a small amount of students choose to leave Northwestern and so few are accepted as transfers, this is a really interesting topic to a lot of people. That’s fine. However, it would be nice to see an article that doesn’t proliferate the idea that transfers are social outcasts breed by the Transfer House. Kudos for interviewing someone who transferred out of Northwestern because it’s someone we haven’t read about yet. But, when talking to transfers please don’t just talk to the first couple people you see near the Transfer House. I live there as well and there are many of us who are very involved and really feel like a part of the campus community (such as the President, which was very briefly mentioned). Then we read an article like this and we’re suddenly reduced to the “weird transfer kids again.” If we’re going to continue to see articles about transferring can we find a new angle?

By: Samantha

Samantha — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:10:42 +0000

I transferred here midway through my sophomore year from a teeny tiny college and I am literally in love with NU (even though I, too, got rejected when I was applying in high school). I think it helped that I was immediately mainstreamed into an amazing res college and that made the transition a lot easier. T-House is just a bad idea because there is NO reason to isolate transfers in one house. I’m graduating this year and the only thing I regret is not having that 1.5 years here before transferring.