So students need to take freshman year as seriously as possible. Depressed freshmen are not powerful transfer candidates, and in fact, when students get more engaged on campus, they end up wanting to stay at their original college. Turning Freshman Blues AroundDecember 19, 2012 in News tagged admissions / applications / college / college freshmen / freshmen / Harvard / Obama / Santa Monica / transfer students / transfers / UCLA / usc by rjoseph