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Commentary, Transfer Students 2018

Friday, September 21, 2018

Transfer or impostor: Why we deserve to be here too

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Kore Chan/File

The tendency to doubt one’s academic legitimacy or success — otherwise known as impostor syndrome — seems to occur most frequently among transfer students. It’s a persistent insecurity that persuades us we don’t belong…because we did not begin on the same four-year track as most of our undergraduate peers.
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