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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Vassar doesn't assign students to colleges they have to stay with all four years, but they also don't have "freshman" dorms.  Lots of people chose to live in the same dorm for several years.  There are other liberal arts colleges that do something similar.

If you like the idea of residential colleges, also look for schools that don't have freshman dorms and you will get a similar effect.[/quote]

I went to a  school that didn't have freshmen-only dorms and that was great, but it's nothing like Rice's residential college system, which I'm familiar with as a Rice parent.  The residential colleges at Rice -- and, yes, I know that other schools have similar systems in name, at least -- are really cohesive and create a "home away from home" for Rice students.  The magisters-- faculty and administrators who preside over the colleges and live in or nearby with their families -- are remarkable in their devotion to and concern for the students.  And, equally important, the residential colleges are places for students to hang out and have fun together -- they provide a framework for inclusive socializing.  In this last respect, Rice is different from Princeton, where many students are in selective eating clubs.  [/quote]

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