Don't let your kid move off campus.

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My four college grads all lived off campus after their freshman years. I thought most kids did these days. They all graduated. Ridiculous premise, OP.

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody lives on campus through senior year.

This is so not true in some colleges. I went to Columbia and no one wanted to live off campus.

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I don't think some of the people on this thread actually went to college.

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Anonymous wrote:My son attends Grinnell where the expectation is for students to live in college housing all four years. Obviously there are a few exceptions (the two kids he knows who are actually from Grinnell could live at home - both chose not to, married students, etc) but 4 years on campus was a big selling point IMO.
I don’t think faculty knock on the door but I know if you miss 2 classes in a row the professor will text/email/call to see what’s going on.
Plus being on campus - and the associated dining privileges mean students have access to food. Grinnell has students who depend on the school for food and thankfully they dont get kicked out of the dorms to make room for the first years.
The dorms provide a community and, especially for students who are poor, a safety net.

And again, too many people are being admitted to college: THIS is the problem. This helps nobody. If colleges like this stopped admitting almost everyone, they would be able to award need-based scholarships and grants for the economically disadvantaged students. But admitting everyone, and then forcing economically disadvantaged AND less academically capable kids to take out huge loans and scrape by miserably, helps nobody, including those kids.

If you actually bothered to understand what you are commenting about you would know that Grinnell is highly selective and 100% need blind. The economically disadvantaged students on campus are quite academically capable. Some schools do admit anyone - Grinnell would not be in that category.

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody lives on campus through senior year.

This is so not true in some colleges. I went to Columbia and no one wanted to live off campus.

How long ago were you there? Currently at Columbia just 32% of undergraduates live on campus.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody lives on campus through senior year.

This is so not true in some colleges. I went to Columbia and no one wanted to live off campus.

How long ago were you there? Currently at Columbia just 32% of undergraduates live on campus.

Exactly. I posted above you. I'm 50 and lived on campus just like most people did in the late 80s. My four college kids all lived off campus after their freshman year. Just like almost all of their friends did. It's hard to even get a dorm as an upper classman on many campuses. Things change. Your college experience won't be the same as your child's.

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Purdue actually studied student success in making the decision to expand on-campus housing. Living on campus has a statistically significant increase in year over year retention and GPA.

https://www.purdue.edu/purduemoves/initiatives/education/living-learning.html

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Anonymous wrote:Purdue actually studied student success in making the decision to expand on-campus housing. Living on campus has a statistically significant increase in year over year retention and GPA.

https://www.purdue.edu/purduemoves/initiatives/education/living-learning.html

I have a kid at Purdue and one who graduated in 2016. It would be extraordinarily rare for an upperclassman to live on campus.

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It depends on the school. Where I graduated from, the university mandated living on campus for 2 years, unless you lived in your fraternity or sorority house. The vast majority of students moved off campus as juniors. Off campus housing was a lot cheaper, in most cases. But I know at some schools, a lot more upperclassmen live on campus.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son attends Grinnell where the expectation is for students to live in college housing all four years. Obviously there are a few exceptions (the two kids he knows who are actually from Grinnell could live at home - both chose not to, married students, etc) but 4 years on campus was a big selling point IMO.
I don’t think faculty knock on the door but I know if you miss 2 classes in a row the professor will text/email/call to see what’s going on.
Plus being on campus - and the associated dining privileges mean students have access to food. Grinnell has students who depend on the school for food and thankfully they dont get kicked out of the dorms to make room for the first years.
The dorms provide a community and, especially for students who are poor, a safety net.

And again, too many people are being admitted to college: THIS is the problem. This helps nobody. If colleges like this stopped admitting almost everyone, they would be able to award need-based scholarships and grants for the economically disadvantaged students. But admitting everyone, and then forcing economically disadvantaged AND less academically capable kids to take out huge loans and scrape by miserably, helps nobody, including those kids.

If you actually bothered to understand what you are commenting about you would know that Grinnell is highly selective and 100% need blind. The economically disadvantaged students on campus are quite academically capable. Some schools do admit anyone - Grinnell would not be in that category.

If you actually bothered to hone your reading comprehension skills, you might have "bothered to understand what you are commenting about."

Grinnell might be need-blind, but they admit so many students that many of those kids have to take out loans. If Grinnell (and many other colleges) were more selective, they could be need-blind AND support economically disadvantaged kids who are admitted with need-based scholarships and grants. I feel sorry for kids who take out full loans to go somewhere like Grinnell.

If you can pay the tuition there, great.

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Anonymous wrote:I loved living on campus at my SLAC, you can more easily participate in lots more activities.

Same here. I went to a small college where most students lived on campus all four years. It was so fun and made for a very cohesive student body. I think it just depends on the school. My own kids attend large universities in which many/most kids move off campus after freshman or sophomore year.

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody lives on campus through senior year.

This is so not true in some colleges. I went to Columbia and no one wanted to live off campus.

That’s because housing in NYC is ridiculously expensive and hard to find.

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I went to one of the top LACs and audited a class my senior year. Because I was just auditing it, I didn’t bother to attend all that often. The prof forgot I was auditing and left me a very angry message about my lack of attendance at class and basically read me the riot act. So, not a knock on the door (and I was living on campus), but close. At some schools the professors actually know who you are and care. Which is why you chose a SLAC.

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I went to the University of Florida right at the time they stopped requiring freshmen to live in the dorms. It was much cheaper to live in an apartment with no meal plan than to live in the dorms.

So I moved into a 1 bedroom with another friend right across from campus. Then I joined a sorority, immediately offering me connection to all the big school activities and my own "clan." I graduated with honors in 4 years.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody lives on campus through senior year.

Actually, at e.g. Denison, students live on campus (are required to live on campus) all four years.

I'm a parent of Denisonian and I like the way they have it structured - as you progress the residence halls change and the rooms become more apartment/townhouse like. I think its a win-win - well except for the fact that they cost more

FWIW, seniors are not required to live in apartment-style housing - it's an option, sure, but they can choose something else (cheaper).

My DC, a Denison (rising) senior, chose other housing because she'd prefer to use her time for things other than planning meals and cooking. We know that she is capable of taking care of herself vis-a-vis cooking, shopping, paying rent, etc., as she has lived away from home all three summers and done fine. She'd just prefer to stay in a dorm arrangement during her last school year because it works well for her. So, costs are not going up for her.