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Now that we've been in our new schools for a couple months, have you noticed any transfer stigma? If so, how have you dealt with it, if at all?

I transferred from a TT to T14, and for the most part have not experienced any transfer stigma (to my knowledge). I was told by a fellow transfer that he overheard a homegrown during OCI complain that transfers were taking up their jobs, but that's about it as far as I know.

Just wondering what the experience has been for other recent transfers.

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No real stigma at GW. You'll find an asshole here or there. The only thing that sucks is that friendships and such are already formed so you miss out on that. But yeah, I have a ton of non-transfer friends and I think that there is no real stigma.

TTRansfer wrote: The only thing that sucks is that friendships and such are already formed so you miss out on that.

This.

BVest wrote:

TTRansfer wrote: The only thing that sucks is that friendships and such are already formed so you miss out on that.

This.

And This

I swear I read every thread on TLS before transfering and do not recall reading this - but it is true. Its not a reason I would have stayed at my former school - but its a difference in the law school experience for sure.

Less open hostility or exclusion. I get little glimmers of animosity but not very much. It's more that people just don't care about you one way or another. That's what happens when you don't go to the school as a 1L. But I eventually made a small group of friends that I'm happy with (a few of whom are fellow transfers).

The social stuff has actually been by far the hardest part of transferring. The classes aren't any different, the students aren't really much smarter, etc.

That said, I don't regret my decision at all.

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Most people don't care, and I haven't experienced any hostility. Some are keen on the fact that you must have killed it to transfer, so that may be the only fact that causes some animosity.

As with the poster above, I only had issues with transfer during OCI.

I will say one or two were annoyed when I got a job. But they were probably assholes from the beginning.

Lockfast wrote:Some are keen on the fact that you must have killed it to transfer, so that may be the only fact that causes some animosity.

One guy implied that I may have done well at my old school, but I wouldn't do well (or as well) at my new school (presumably, because they're smarter). But otherwise I haven't felt any stigma from anyone else. I agree, though, that I may never feel like "real" student at my new school.

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