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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A good question to ask when touring schools or when reps visit. [/quote]

I was surprised how few upperclassmen at U Mich live on campus. When you have huge universities, they just don’t have a lot of housing stock relative to the size of the student population [/quote]

Most upperclassmen don't live on campus in general - unless it's a tiny SLAC.[/quote]

[b]Not true. Most of the ivies have on campus housing all 4 years. [/quote]

Maybe half of the ivies. I know that the ones that guarantee 4 years [/b]of on-campus housing are Harvard, Princeton, Columbia (not sure if this will continue with the increasing class size) and I believe Brown.

Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell and UPenn guarantee only 2 years. [/quote]

Right. Not all if the Ivies offer four year housing. Harvard and Yale do because og the original “house” system they
both started.  At Yale, you go right into your @house” and often live there all four years. At Harvard, all freshman go into
Harvard yard then deject their houses for tears 2, 3, and 4. [/quote]

Wrong. Harvard guarantees 4 years of housing (my DC attends). Princeton does too. Yale definitely does NOT guarantee 4 years of housing.

https://housing.yale.edu/undergraduate-housing/yale-college-undergraduate-regulations

I’m an alum and was surprised to learn this on the tour (and it’s confirmed elsewhere). I was also surprised and saddened to learn that about half (can’t remember if it’s 40% or 60%) of juniors and seniors now live off campus. This really changes the residential college experience that drew me to Yale. But it’s also part of the reason that Yale was able to increase its class size (starting with class of 2029). [/quote]

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