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Rationally, transfer students and first-years should take roughly the same amount of time adjusting to life here at Harvard. If anything, transfer students, who have already spent at least one semester away from home in a university setting, should be able to adapt even more quickly than those just out of the high school. Then why do transfers arriving at Harvard overwhelmingly feel isolated from the rest of the undergraduate community...
...first step in the right direction was taken recently: the announcement that transfer students will not be confined to Dudley House, but will automatically receive affiliation with one of the undergraduate residence halls upon arrival...
...even this policy will not sufficiently answer the calls by transfer students against being forced to live off campus. Affiliation does not mean a room number. What kind of sense of belonging to a house bythe river is there when your desk and bed are half an hour away--past the Quad...
Under the new proposal, 10 percent of house space currently made available to first-years would be offered to students wishing to transfer. To prevent excessive imbalance among house populations, only 15 percent of a given class in each house would be allowed to transfer...
Although the House Life student contingent said they are optimistic about the proposed changes, many masters were cautious, saying that the transfer system is already satisfactory...