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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Leaving politics aside, I was turned off by the high ratio of students living off campus and amount of classes taught online. [/quote]

I went to UF. Most students live off campus because it’s fun. It’s a huge college town. Many live in their sorority or fraternity house or there’s ample apartments very close by. I never lived on campus at all and had a very full college experience. My parents lived 5 hours away and I needed a car to go home, which is a massive challenge on campus. Hard to park or store a car anywhere. [/quote]

They have no choice, there isn’t even enough housing for freshman.  [/quote]

NP - there typically is a choice. You put down a deposit at the time you apply. But there is plenty of great, convenient off campus housing very close (as in a block or two away) to campus so it’s not an issue either way and doesn’t limit access to any on campus facilities and campus life. And you end up living with other students as well. So many pick that simply to have more modern housing, a kitchen, a private bedroom…[/quote]

And no adult supervision or planned social events that don’t revolve around alcohol.[/quote]

Adult supervision? They [i]are[/i] adults, dildo. Land the helicopter.[/quote]

Dildo?  I don’t think you are an adult.  Again, if you don’t want your freshman in a dorm, go for it.  Most parents, and students do.  [b]The very best colleges have residential colleges where the kids live all four years with the same cohort.[/b][/quote]

Who does that and what %age of the school participates in that?  [/quote]

Seruously?  Maybe read up on Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Oxford and report back.[/quote]

I went to Princeton and few people did this (in fact didn’t know a single person who did this).

Maybe don’t talk out of your ass about something that few kids would ever do for 4 years of college.[/quote]

I don’t believe you attended Princeton because 98 percent of students live on campus all four years.  Zero chance you attended and didn’t know this.[/quote]

The previous statement said the kids all live with the same cohort from their residential colleges.  That’s different than just living on campus, where everyone livid with new roommates and in my situation lived in an Eating House as an officer.[/quote]

Let’s just go directly to to the source.  Taken directly from the Princeton website:

Princeton guarantees on-campus housing for students for all four years. First- and second-year students are required to live on campus, and nearly all juniors and seniors choose to live in on-campus housing. All residential colleges house students from all four class years as well as some graduate students. The residential colleges offer a welcoming environment and a host of social and intellectual opportunities throughout the academic year. Juniors and seniors can take advantage of these opportunities even if they choose not to live in the residential colleges.

Entering first-year students are randomly assigned to a residential college: Butler, Forbes, Mathey, New College West, Rockefeller, Whitman or Yeh College. First-years typically take on the identity of their college with pride early in the first semester. Each first-year has a junior or senior residential college adviser who is on hand to answer questions and help with the adjustment to college life. Each college has a faculty head of college, faculty fellows, dean, assistant dean and a director of student life.

At the end of their sophomore year, students may choose whether to live in one of the residential colleges or remain affiliated with their college but make other living and dining arrangements.

Are you still pretending to have attended Princeton?
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It’s clear you didn’t because you are just pulling info from the website.

Again, the comment was that kids lived with their freshman residential college cohort all four years, not that kids remained on campus all four years.

Most students do not end up living with their freshman residential college cohort all four years and will switch dorms and live with other friends they meet over the 4 years.

This isn’t a controversial statement.[/quote]

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