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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seriously, stop with the "Pitt is a commuter school" nonsense. You or your DC won't notice.

I went there in the late 1980s and it was less prestigious then but the same high quality school.  The dorms were not empty on weekends and it didn't impact the feel of the school.  I learned the expression "suitcase school" from DCUM only in mid-life.

At college, people going home are not different from people with other plans like roadtripping to a concert, spending all weekend out of the dorm at their fraternity, or spending all weekend recovering from a cold.  I can't imagine expecting to see dormmates all the time.

I did make a commuter student friend in a summer class.  We talked on the phone for a while.  My best friend dated one who actually joined a frat.

Commuter student at Pitt often used to be mentioned in a way that implied lower income family.  Which could be true.  But that was actually a positive to me.  Students were humble and usually working hard because college costs mattered to them.  Instead of being entitled slackers and goofoffs.  I prefer to be around hardworking people who care about what they are doing.  It doesn't matter to me where they sleep at night.

My parents lived about 30 miles away, my DH's about 40.  We went home maybe 2x a semester.  I also commuted to Pitt one summer to take classes and do a research job.  I liked that the William Pitt Student Union (a former city hotel) had a very elegant, quiet, and comfy lounge where students could kill time.  I remember the plush velvet couches fondly.  I hope they kept that area the same.[/quote]

No one is saying the schools in OP are commuter schools but people on this forum do mention schools where students went home on weekends. But that was 80s and 90s. NJ colleges? George Mason U in VA is another university people have said (on here anyways) is a school filled with students from Northern Virginia who pack up and go home on weekends. Maybe that has changed but if students are still predominantly coming from NoVa, they probably do go home more often than let's say a student who has to fly across country to visit.[/quote]

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