Rice, Caltech, Yale.

Duke is trying to create residential colleges but I am not sure how far along they are yet.

Anonymous wrote:Wake/Colby/Bowdoin/Davidson

3 of your 4 answers are just wrong. Liberal arts colleges can’t have colleges inside them….

Colleges with guaranteed housing for four years are different than a house system for colleges (known best to most people though Harry Potter).

Don’t you get sorted into a house after freshman year at Harvard?

Wellesley has 4 years guaranteed housing

Anonymous wrote:OP can you please explain what the difference is between this, and typical dorms? Thank you.

Here is Yale’s explanation: “https://yalecollege.yale.edu/residential-colleges”. Wikipedia also has some discussion. The details will vary a bit from college to college, but the general principle is that students live and eat together in a single community for all 4 undergraduate years. This is different from a “dorm” where students can change from one dorm to another unrelated dorm during their undergraduate years and there really is not a concept of eating meals together. Oxford University is the origin of this model, at least for the English-speaking world.

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Anonymous wrote:OP can you please explain what the difference is between this, and typical dorms? Thank you.

You have housing all four years and it is part of the tradition.

Just because there is a residential housing system does not mean housing is guaranteed all 4 years, FYI. It is not guaranteed at Rice or Yale for 4 years. But you are still a part of your Residential college regardless of if
you live on or off campus

Yale & Rice have great Residential College cultures

Cambridge and Oxford

Anonymous wrote:OP can you please explain what the difference is between this, and typical dorms? Thank you.

You have housing all four years and it is part of the tradition.

Wake/Colby/Bowdoin/Davidson

Rice

OP can you please explain what the difference is between this, and typical dorms? Thank you.

I think U Chicago and Yale are setup that way.

What are the set of colleges which *only* have a House system or Residential College system for undergraduates (i.e., no “general” dormitories for undergraduate students) ?