TONS of people transfer…of COURSE you can still live in campus and participate in everything. Transfer students are just regular students–and anyway, at college everyone is always coming and going (taking a semester off to travel, going abroad, being admitted in the spring, etc.), so a new face isn’t really a big deal.

Some schools try really hard to make transfers feel good…my friend transferred to Northwestern, and she lived in a dorm that was specifically for transfer students.

Since you’re pretty far along in your college career, you might have to work a little bit to infiltrate the cliques and stuff, but just be friendly and join clubs and stuff and it shouldn’t be very hard.

I transferred 2nd semester and there were no problems making friends and getting involved in the school. There were many people who had transferred midway through the year and we went through orientation together and hung out in the dorms before the returning students arrived on campus from Christmas break.