If you really are worried, then I suggest simply being cautious. Walk around with a group of friends for the beginning, and do not wander off to empty parts of the schools by yourself. Stick close to other people–peers, teachers, etc. You can work out a regular route, if you like, to know where you are going and avoid getting lost and picked on.

Honestly, you do not have much to worry about (even though, again, it depends on your school). Just be cautious in the beginning, but later you will have established yourself in the new school and won’t have many problems like this.

At my school, hazing doesn’t occur at all. There might be funny or stupid comments made at the beginning of the year (about how short and tiny the freshmen are, about how everyone wants to just squish them out of the way) but they are just made to draw a few laughs and stop after a month or two. Seniors aren’t monsters. They were freshmen once, too. And there are always those upperclassmen that are willing to help anyone new to the school.

Good luck!

If you are asking because you are worried, then stop worrying. I doubt that many, if any, schools still do hazing things. I’ve heard of it happening in college if you join a sports team or some other sort of club, but it truly is against every school’s rules to do so.

If you are being hurt by upperclassmen and are asking in order to see if it’s normal, it’s not. You need to tell someone if another person is beating up on you.

Also, we tend to push the freshman and sophomores around in the hall. An upperclassmans schedule is more in important than a 1st or 2nd year.