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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I loved the residential college system of Yale and the residential housing system at Harvard.  Both make the big university feel more like a SLAC.[/quote]
What does this mean?  As far as I see, it means a grad student and family live on the first floor of the dorm.  True?  What else?  (DD is looking at a school that claims to have the same modeled after Yale -- and I can't get the gist of it.)  [/quote]

Yale has 12 residential colleges.  You stay in that "college" the full four years, unless you decide to move off.  Almost all of the colleges (except the brand new one) are gorgeous.  You must have a student ID to get thru the iron gates into your college and then another pass to get into your dorm, and then key to your room . . . .so if you are worried about security, don't.   Here's the wiki on the 12 colleges.  My son stayed at Jonathon Edwards College.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_residential_colleges.

Harvard's system is a little different unless it has changed when I went there.  There you spend your first year with all other freshmen in the freshman quad.  At the end of the year you select which of the houses you want to live in for sophomore years and up.  Certain Houses have certain reputations so there is much talk about which House to choose.

In both schools, a headmaster [b]and wife[/b] live in with the students.[/quote]

!!!

Even Hogwarts has had headmistresses...[/quote]

Sorry, You are right and I realize now I was also sounded sexist - it was just male headmasters when I was there.[/quote]

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