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[quote=Anonymous]I'm going to give you some positive feedback.  One of my DS' best friends from his high school years did the community college route to UVA.  He was homeschooled and "graduated" from high school very early (16 years old.)  Because of his age, his parents had him do community college - he also had never been in a classroom setting since he was homeschooled.  He transferred to UVA at 19 and lived on campus in the dorm.  He was in ROTC so he immediately had a network of people that he met.  He absolutely LOVED his UVA experience.

My nephew did the CC route to VA Tech.  Loved his time at VA Tech.

Here is a link of a recent W&M grad who went the CC route to W&M.  He was in several of my DS' classes at W&M once he transferred.  My DS told me the same type of thing - this young man jumped in and joined activities to meet people.

https://mason.wm.edu/news/2022/finance-major-follows-his-own-path-via-rbc-to-wm-degree.php.

I think the key to making this work is putting yourself out there once you arrive on campus.  Join clubs, go to the events the school puts on.  Say hello to people.  My DS went to W&M so I'm more familiar with the social scene at that school.  W&M has a large percentage of students who live on campus all 4 years.  So if you come in as a junior, you can live in the dorm with other juniors and seniors and not be "weird" or trying to find an off-campus apartment and then never meeting people.  Also, since it's a smaller school, I think it's easier to meet people.  My DS also has said that he made an entire new network of friends his junior and senior year once he started doing upper level classes and being in multiple classes with the same people.  He was in the Business school and had almost every class in one building his last year (junior year was online with covid.)  
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