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And some don’t want campuses emptied out by that same phenomenon. [/quote]
I agree. Students will have different preferences.

But there was a poster who was saying that wanting other universities in the area to have bigger social circles was unheard of. My argument has been that many students want other universities in an area to have a more dynamic and novel social opportunities. Different strokes.[/quote]

Yeah. It's called hypothetical in my mind fantasy rather than reality.

Kids don't go to BU or BC or Northeastern on the off chance they can hang out with Harvard students. They may say Boston is a cool place with lots of college kids but what it means is more bars for them to go to, not meeting students from other colleges. And they really don't go out of the campus safety zone for the allure of "grown up" bars till junior, or more realistically, senior year. The one exception would be political years with students volunteering on various presidential campaigns because outside that there really aren't venues for students from various colleges to come together and meet each other, if they were so inclined.

If you're the same poster talking about 4-6k student body being too small and homogeneous, that's a sizable enough student body to have all the cliques from the jocks to the druggies.

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Agree with this.  There are a handful of situations where students may pick a school with the goal of studying and/or socializing with students from other schools.  The best examples are the U. Mass consortium (U. Mass, Hampshire, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, and Smith) or the Claremont Colleges in CA (Pomona, Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, and Scripps).  But BU kids picking Boston so they can meet Harvard kids, or Harvard kids looking to hang out with Babson students?  Nope. [/quote]

Wait, so you agree entirely with my argument that college kids want to have the option to hang out with students from other nearby colleges? That going to a college consortium like the Claremont Colleges in better than going to an isolated SLAC in a rural/suburban area?

You don't think Harvard kids would hang out with MIT kids? Or that Northeastern, Boston University and Boston College kids would hang out together? 
You realize that Harvard kids can take courses at MIT and vice versa? And that being next to multiple excellent colleges is better than being next to none?

You yourself argued that college kids would prefer to live next to other universities rather than middle-aged families and barns. 
If you were a college kid, would you rather[/quote]

For someone who has challenged other posters' reading comprehension and intellect, you seem to be lacking in both, if that's the inference you are drawing from the prior post.

And why are going on about Harvard?  OP's kid didn't even apply there. [/quote]
No, I have questioned your reading comprehension and intellect in particular as you don't seem to understand a very simple argument. And of course, you don't actually respond to the argument as you have none.

Boston has been used throughout this thread as an example on the benefits of having multiple universities in close proximity. Harvard is one of the multiple colleges in Boston. Are you having trouble following this rather simple discussion?[/quote]

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