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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most schools where my kid applied did not guarantee on campus housing after the first year.  A few didn't even guarantee it for freshman year.  Coming from a SLAC in the 90s, that seemed so weird to me at first.  I was on campus for 3 years and could have been there all 4, but I really, really wanted to live in an apt. my senior year.  My kid is at UM and when I asked if they wanted to apply for sophomore housing, they were adamant that they did not.  Most kids actually do want to live off campus.  I think the dorm is really a good way to start freshman year b/c there is less responsibility and it gives kids an easy way to make friends.  However, I can completely understand why living off campus after freshman year is appealing.  It is pretty much the norm.[/quote]

Fair point, but I wonder if this is a chicken/egg thing.  If there was more of a culture of living on campus for two or three years, maybe more students would  want to do it. If UM is like UVA, students hear (from friends and friends of friends ) that they need to find second year housing early in their first year so they do.  The school has some upper class housing, but not enough and no way to know if you’ll get anything close to what you reasonably want.

In my view, there is plenty of time to live in apartments and I think there’s value to a school
 Culture where students live in school housing for at least two years.  And it doesn’t need to be fancy.  Plenty of time for that, too.
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