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...Transfers have to deal with institutions before coming to other students need to be concerned. The administration here effectively sets transfer students apart immediately after inviting them to join the Harvard community: With the admissions letter comes the warning that there will be no place on campus for you. At no other college, except perhaps Yale, is the housing system so integral to the undergraduate experience. The University describes in glowing terms the role of the houses in providing the basis for social activities. Everything from eating meals to participating in the numerous house organizations is supposed...
Housing policy, which has changed three times in the past three years, nonetheless denies on-campus housing to transfers at least for their first semester at Harvard. After that, transfer students may enter a lottery to gain affiliation--but not housing--in one of the residential houses. As an affiliate, one may be invited to live in the house, or one may not be--it is completely up to the individual house master. The overcrowding of recent years has meant that most transfer students have been lucky to be on campus for as little as one-third of their time...
...DOES the University's housing policy isolate the 50 or so transfer students who arrive here each year? It's true that we take classes with other undergraduates, that we can eat meals in the residential dining halls with other students, that we have as much access to University facilities as others. But while walking a few blocks to supper is not so bad, knowing no one in the dining hall is no fun at all. Although most sophomores spend their time meeting new housemates, transfer students usually become friendly primarily with fellow transfers. It takes longer, perhaps only after...
Although the University seems genuinely concerned about the plight of transfers, it has been unwilling to present the only solution that will solve the problem: guaranteed on-campus residency. Instead, steps were taken last year to assure that some incoming transfers would have off-campus housing. The University agreed to reserve for transfer use a block of rooms in the Peabody Terrace apartments at below-market rate. The move is a partial answer--but not a solution...
Although a group of one-time transfer students will doff their caps today as energetically as any other students, the experience of transfers at Harvard will suffer unnecessarily until the University amends its housing policy...