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Andrew J. Sussman '87, who transferred after his freshman year from the University of Pennsylvania, has had a more positive experience. He is still living off campus, but says it does not affect his satisfaction with his decision to transfer to Harvard...
Sussman admits that he did not fully understand the importance of the House system to life at Harvard, but says that it did not at all cause him to regret his decision to transfer...
Overall, Sussman says that "It's really no harder to transfer here than it is to transfer to any other comparable school. It's a pain in the neck to transfer, but I don't think Harvard makes it particularly difficult...
...transfer students share Sussman's approval for the administration's treatment of transfers. Adam Lewis '86, originally from Yarmouth, Maine, transferred from the University of Maine at Orono after his sophomore year, and received housing in North House this spring...
...guess I would do it again," Lewis says. "But I would caution those who are trying to transfer that it's a struggle. You have to have some character strength to weather it, to put up with the isolation...