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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LACs are desperate for money.[/quote]

No, many LACs are in small towns where:
- there’s not a ton of housing for everyone to live off campus
- no public transportation so if you do, you need a car or to live close enough and even then the grocery stores and everything else are not walkable
- all of the social life is centered around the campus[/quote]

My LAC allowed a few seniors to live off campus and you had to get approval. For the reasons listed and because of town/gown relations (students aren't always the greatest neighbors). My DD went to a LAC and they had a similar policy - maybe 100 students were allowed to live off campus. By contrast my DS went to a big university and the majority of upperclassmen lived off campus but most of those student apartments were as close to campus as the dorms and essentially function just like a dorm except you pay rent to the apartment not to the college. There really wasn't much difference in the experience of my two kids in terms of engagement in school, social life, etc. So maybe this is an issues at some schools, but it's not universal.[/quote]

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