It is significantly easier to make friends being an incoming freshmen in the dorms, as everyone else in your cohort also has no friends and is always around. If

It is significantly easier to make friends being an incoming freshmen in the dorms, as everyone else in your cohort also has no friends and is always around. If you're outgoing, this isn't much of a problem, but as a sophomore transfer student who never lived on campus, I struggled with this pretty heavily. It's probably not worth >$10k between tuition / room and board to be able to make friends easily, but there is a downside. (I transferred from another university, not from community college, so I do have a point of comparison.)