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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't get some of these comments, I went to a large state school where most people moved off campus sophomore year. Some stayed in dorms as sophs but definitely by junior year everyone had a house or apartment. "Off campus" doesn't mean moving thirty miles away, it just meant we were paying rent to a landlord instead of to the school. We were still physically right in the mix. In fact the places I lived were all closer to most of the academic buildings than my freshman year dorms. [/quote]

+1.  My college only required Freshman year on campus.  I'm surprised no one mentioned cost!  It's much more expensive to live on campus!  We had to buy the meal plan, which you had to be a linebacker to be able to eat all the prepaid food.

Living off campus was a good "in between" stage between living hotel-like on campus without privacy and living on your own.[/quote]

Usually at the schools that have a residential requirement you're not required to buy the meal plan (hence all the mentions of cooking in on-campus apartments).  Large state schools usually don't have the housing so they often don't provide on-campus housing past freshman year, but smaller schools often do.  One nice thing about the arrangement is that you only have to pay for housing during the academic year--no issue getting summer sub-lets or keeping the apt all summer if you want to leave.  [/quote]

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