Video: What’s It Like to Transfer to BU? These Veterans Offer Some Advice
Current transfer students offer tips on how to make friends, find roommates, and more
What’s It Like to Transfer to BU? These Veterans Offer Some Advice
What’s It Like to Transfer to BU? These Veterans Offer Some Advice
Each year, more than 700 new transfer students arrive at Boston University. Some are drawn by the opportunity to attend a big university in an urban setting. Some have decided to pursue a new major and find their previous school is no longer a good fit. Others arrive after attending a two-year community college or junior college.
As any transfer student will tell you, transitioning to a new school brings with it special challenges. It’s similar to being a freshman all over again, but different: how do you find and make friends when so many of your peers have already formed tight groups? How do you begin to find a roommate, especially if you’re starting at the beginning of spring semester? You also have to adjust to a new institutional culture.
BU Today decided to bring together a group of experts—Terriers who are themselves transfer students—to answer questions from new and prospective transfer students and offer tips on how to navigate life at BU. We pulled questions from BU’s Reddit page posted by students thinking about coming to BU. We also reached out to Transition to Boston University (TTBU), the peer mentoring group by and for BU transfer students, who shared with us questions posted on their Instagram page. In the video above, our transfer veterans answer some of the most frequently asked questions and talk about why they chose to come to BU. Take a look.
A Transfer Student Welcome, cohosted by Transition to Boston University (TTBU) and CAS Student Programs and Leadership is today from 5:30 to 6:30 pm in the Metcalf Ballroom, George Sherman Union second floor, 775 Comm Ave. The event will feature BU resources designed to help transfer students succeed in their first year at BU. Free appetizers will be served. Register here.
Do you have questions about the transfer experience or need help settling in? Transition to Boston University offers peer mentoring for new students. Academic advisors are also available to help. And FY101, a semester-long introduction to BU and college life taught by BU staff members and student peer mentors, is another excellent resource.
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