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[quote=Anonymous][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]
omg, the cost! My daughter is at a school that requires on campus all four years. We are paying $7200 for her to live in a 3 bedroom, on campus "townhouse" with 5 other girls (3 bedrooms, two per room). Two bathrooms. So about 800/month in rent for the 9 month school year. I know this doesn't seem like that much if you live in a high COL area, but this is a smallish city in the midwest. I looked up off campus rental options, and you could get a 3 bedroom duplex or apartment half a mile from campus for $1500. If that was split between six people, it'd be $250 a month! Less than a third of what we are paying now! Even if it were 3 people and everyone got their own bedroom, it'd still be almost half of what we are paying.

On the other hand, my kid's school doesn't guarantee on-campus housing for students and he's paying $950 a month for an off-campus apartment he shares with 3 other people (each their own room)--and that's considered a good deal for the area.  It's about 1.5k more than housing.  And he has to pay for the full year or find a sub-letter so even more.  It really depends by situation.

It's a money maker for the school, plain and simple. [/quote][/quote]

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