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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It depends what off campus housing looks like. Do students live in apartments with other students at the edge of campus? That might as well be dorm life but with a private landlord. Do students live scattered throughout the city and drive/bus long distances to get to class? That would disqualify a school for my child.[/quote]

This! Some “off” campus apartments are basically dorm apartments with other students and are adjacent to campus, closer than some of the official dorms. We limited our search to schools with guaranteed for 2 yrs minimum, the option for all 4 years(even if it had to be RA ), and “off” campus apartments for the last 1-2 yrs that were on campus/as walkable as dorms ie no car needed.
She also wanted engineering and a smallish undergraduate experience 
(Cornell was the biggest school applied to)

Cornell
Penn
Princeton
Hopkins
Duke
Columbia
Northwestern 
Uchicago 
WashU
Stanford
Wake 
And 3 LACs Swarthmore,HarveyMudd,
W&L
Got into many of the above, picked Penn, loves it! Her campus apartment is closer to most Seas buildings than the dorms. It’s guaranteed 2 yrs dorms but pretty easy to stay all 4 if you want. 
C/o 2026 its been great (furnished, safe, all students, and about the same per month as the dorms with no shared bedroom, ie comparing apples to apples. It is easy to sublet in summer is easy due to all the premeds and stem kids who get clinical jobs or stay for paid research each summer)[/quote]

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