4 year residential requirement
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Anonymous
| Can you share which school? |
Anonymous
| It's a pro. |
Anonymous
| I went to a SLAC with a four-year residential requirement, I think it was a huge plus. The student body wasn't that big to begin with, and if everyone was scattered around town after the first year or two, I think it would have made the school feel very fractured socially. With everyone living on campus, it was easy to meet up with friends for a quick coffee during a study break, I was pretty much guaranteed to always see someone I knew in the dining hall, even if I went by myself, etc. |
Anonymous
PP again, I'll also second the poster above who mentioned that it made room draw a lot less stressful -- you might not end up living in your ideal housing, but there was no chance you'd end up without housing. Plus no dealing with leases and landlords, transportation to campus, etc. |
Anonymous
| is't it hordes v. hoards |
Anonymous
I went to a school where most people most off campus after freshman year and no one was scattered around town. Off campus meant moving into housing that was right there, but you just weren't dealing with the school. |
Anonymous
Lawrence University in wI |
Anonymous
This description fits DC's school, and I like the requirement for the reasons PP lists above. |
Anonymous
What? Appleton IS the "large city" - it's not a suburb. |
Anonymous
| I went to a SLAC that only required living on campus for 2 years but guaranteed on-campus housing for all. In practice, about half of the juniors and seniors lived on-campus. Off-campus tended to cluster in 2 or 3 buildings, a handful of houses that were always being rented to students, and a handful of apartments within the privately owned homes around campus. |
Anonymous
| Huge pro. More oversight, more immersion in the college atmosphere, less worrying about paying utility bills or calling a plumber. The only con is for low income kids whose families live nearby, who want to commute to save money. |
Anonymous
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It is a pro. Appleton and Lawrence aren't big enough to have a student ghetto and normal people don't like living near undergrads. And be glad you won't have to pay 12 months rent.
I don't know if you understand how small the cities in Wisconsin are. Appleton isn't the boonies, but it is nothing like a DC suburb. |
Anonymous
| Just because it's all "on campus", doesn't mean it won't be varied. It won't feel like the same experience year and year. Older students probably get some perks, get the nicest accommodations. Probably will be managed better than typical off campus at other schools. However, I would be much more concerned that it's a tiny college, in the middle of no where. Without knowing the college, I'm going to guess this. |
Anonymous
| Con. I would prefer a campus where housing is guaranteed all four years if you want it, but not *required* to live on campus all four years. |
Anonymous
I'm from Appleton. It's really not that small, I don't think there's any "understanding" that needs to be done. |