I basically went the traditional route, right from high school to college, but we didn’t have any universities in our back yard. We did however have a Community College, so I enrolled there. By actually getting a degree from CC (which I’d recommend doing before you transfer), a lot of the hassles many of my friends had, just didn’t exist for me. Many had classes that didn’t translate…but basically for me, all my liberal arts were done and I simply needed to take classes in my major. There were only two classes I had to retake for my major, because the classes I took at CC were 100 level classes and the ones required for my major were 300 level classes.
My university was 2 hours from home, so I stayed on campus, so that’s a bit different, but really, if you’ve been to CC, you know the drill, nothing to be nervous about, just expect that your 3rd year classes will be harder than your 2nd year, and your 4th year will be harder than your 3rd. Generally there will be plenty for you to do socially at any college campus whether you live there or not, and if you don’t want to immerse yourself in that aspect of it, you just really need to do your work and you’ll be fine. The biggest different is the size of the campus really, which has it’s challenges in that maybe it’s not as intimate, but resources should be more plentiful in other ways. Don’t sweat it, it’s just school.