Guaranteed housing all 4 years

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Fordham Lincoln Center guarantees all four years -- and the dorms are fairly new and in good shape. Some even have a nice Hudson river view -- DD is in a program where she probably won't be home much anyway, so I'm guessing she'll prefer the ease of staying on campus. Upperclass dorm is apartment style with a bigger kitchen than you sometimes get in a NYC rental.

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Anonymous wrote:Some families cannot afford for their kid to live off campus which often requires a car (another expense) Some schools are in areas where off campus housing is more expensive. Most of the time a car would be required (to get to and from campus easily, get groceries) etc.

My kid is looking for a school where the majority of students live on campus. I lived on campus all four years during college and enjoyed the convenience. It was also nice not to have to worry about cooking. Had no problem adulting after graduation and getting my own apartment in NYC without help from a parent. And got married soon after that and had a baby by age 24.

Same. 4 years of coddled existence at a rural SLAC, rented an urban apt 1000 miles away two weeks after graduation, married a year later and adulting ever since. There are many paths.

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I picked my college based on whether I had to live on campus or not. I refused to live on campus. You can't cook, you have to pay for laundry and it's way more expensive than an apartment.

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Anonymous wrote:I picked my college based on whether I had to live on campus or not. I refused to live on campus. You can't cook, you have to pay for laundry and it's way more expensive than an apartment.

Depends on the rental market!

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Anonymous wrote:I can see why some parents would want the ease and certainty of guaranteed housing. But for those kids who are jetting off to colleges that are IN metropolitan cities like Nashville, Houston, NYC, LA - there is nothing more freeing than living independently outside of the constraints and rules of the school. Kids who live off campus actually have to be an adult in the city. Landlords, utilities, maintenance, package deliveries, sublets, parking - they need to handle all this. And, at least to my kid and their friends, there's thankfully no more required meal plan. They figure out the local grocery stores and make runs to trader joe's for the week's provisions, split the costs, and figure out who is cooking meals. My kid was actually bummed they Had to stay on campus Sophomore year. But, it's likely equally a factor of the type of kids who choose these kinds of universities over a small suburban or rural campus.

This post made me laugh. You seem to think "the type of kids who choose these kinds of universities" are... better? Smarter? There is nothing better or smarter in choosing an urban school as opposed to a suburban or rural campus. Everyone eventually gets their own place and lives independently.

Way to jump to a conclusion. I made no such remark. But absolutely the kids who want to live on an isolated campus in the Berkshires are looking for something very different at 18 years old than a kid who wants to live in LA and NYC. I’m not saying they can’t get to independence eventually. But some kids are ready for and looking for the excitement of a city as their backdrop at 18. Some don’t want anything to do with it.

My kids already live in a city. Oldest is going to an urban campus— but it has a defined campus.

I was going to say similar. Friends of mine who lived in Manhattan all their lives loved going to remote colleges. They were already pretty independent. PP claiming otherwise is without a clue.

+1 my kids take the Metro into DC for HS daily. They live in an urban neighborhood. They have traveled overseas. They have had jobs. Their own bank accounts. They were comfortable with public transportation prior to HS. The oldest also drives all over this crazy city.

They are much more independent than I ever was at a much earlier age—even after I left my suburban home to go a few states away to a university which was also non-urban and people pretty much did everything on or very near campus.

If my kids choose to go to DC private college and live on campus- I’m not worried about them not being independent. They already are.

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So many issues with finding off-campus housing, lease issues, landlord issues, big PIA and doing it as early as sophomore year was not a plus.

I like the campus camaraderie of schools that require on campus living longer. My kid will be attending one with a 3-year requirement. The upperclassmen have more townhouse like on campus accommodations. Sophomores more apartment style and Freshmen traditional dorms.

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Anonymous wrote:There’s a word for college kids who must have four years of housing: nerds.

Things have changed. The housing shortage is real and not everyone can afford off campus these days.

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Anonymous wrote:So many issues with finding off-campus housing, lease issues, landlord issues, big PIA and doing it as early as sophomore year was not a plus.

I like the campus camaraderie of schools that require on campus living longer. My kid will be attending one with a 3-year requirement. The upperclassmen have more townhouse like on campus accommodations. Sophomores more apartment style and Freshmen traditional dorms.

What school?

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Anonymous wrote:So many issues with finding off-campus housing, lease issues, landlord issues, big PIA and doing it as early as sophomore year was not a plus.

I like the campus camaraderie of schools that require on campus living longer. My kid will be attending one with a 3-year requirement. The upperclassmen have more townhouse like on campus accommodations. Sophomores more apartment style and Freshmen traditional dorms.

What school?

I know Georgetown requires first 3 years on-campus housing.

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Boston University (BU) - guarantee housing for all 4 years.

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Anonymous wrote:So many issues with finding off-campus housing, lease issues, landlord issues, big PIA and doing it as early as sophomore year was not a plus.

I like the campus camaraderie of schools that require on campus living longer. My kid will be attending one with a 3-year requirement. The upperclassmen have more townhouse like on campus accommodations. Sophomores more apartment style and Freshmen traditional dorms.

This thread is asking you to identify schools. Not just tell us your anonymous story.

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University of Rochester requires on-campus for first two years, and guarantees for four years for students admitted as freshman (i.e. not transfers)

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Wesleyan requires on-campus housing all four years.

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Wellesley guarantees four years of housing, and juniors and seniors may

The posters correlating adult independence to the number of years that one lives on campus are amongst the countless ignorant people on this site, and what's depressing is that anyone invested in engaging on this board is nevertheless still likely to be above average in intellect and educational attainment relative to the rest of U.S. society (not that that is a particularly high bar).

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Anonymous wrote:I picked my college based on whether I had to live on campus or not. I refused to live on campus. You can't cook, you have to pay for laundry and it's way more expensive than an apartment.

Denison requires you to live on campus all four years. Laundry is free, and the senior apartments have kitchens and single rooms in the apartments. The newest senior dorm includes large social spaces with a garage door that opens on sunny days, a coffee shop, a campus bar and a convenience store.