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[quote=Anonymous][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]

This is wrong. You don't know Yale, clearly. Yale doesn't have houses. It has residential colleges. Most first years live on Old Campus, not in their college. But 4 colleges (TD, Silliman and the 2 new ones) do house their freshman in the colleges. Then everyone lives in their college soph - senior year.

Back in my day, very few students moved off campus. That number went up since Covid but it's still not that high. [/quote]

Wrong. The majority of juniors and seniors at Yale now live off campus. This is the reason Yale very recently (class of 2029) has started expanding the class size. It also changes the dynamics of the residential college system which Yale “sells” and is a big reason students choose Yale. As an alum, I’m disappointed to learn of these changes.

Also , Yale only guarantees two years of on-campus housing now.  It’s on their website. [/quote]

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