Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like arrested development if a substantial portion of juniors and seniors don't move on.

We get it, you're a narrow-minded shitty tailgate state alum. Now buzz off.

Wow - both of you are so rude. I was a state alum who lived on-campus all four years and loved every minute of it. How about you buzz off.

Mary Washington. I lived on campus all four years and loved it. There was no requirement to do so, but it's a small college and most people did. I believe there is now upperclassman apt.-style housing, but it's still pretty much on campus. I had no desire to deal with renting an apartment when pretty much everyone was hanging out together on campus.

Oh, and I was perfectly able to deal with renting an apartment, paying utility bills, grocery shopping, and working once I graduated. Just didn't want the "arrested development" PP to worry too much.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like arrested development if a substantial portion of juniors and seniors don't move on.

So they can 15 years of young-adult apartment-living instead of 13? To what end? In my case it worked out fine. I was married with two kids at the age of 30 despite living in a dorm for four years. Just think where I could have been if I moved out junior year!

So true! The PP's argument never fails to make me laugh. Students have their ENTIRE lives to learn how to pay bills, cook for themselves, etc. Staying on campus for four years is certainly not going to prevent any of that from happening.

I went to at St Lawrence and most lived on campus for all four years. I lived in my sorority for two years but there were really no off campus apartments. The occasional theme house was an option but otherwise all university housing.

This is mostly relatively elite private national universities, typically of a certain enrollment range, and LACs.

University of Richmond. Very nice on campus apartments for juniors and seniors.

The Claremont Colleges are another group of SLACs (or LAC in the case of Pitzer ) with the vast majority of students on campus all 4 years.

Anonymous wrote:Univ Dayton

Their little neighborhood of houses for juniors/seniors is so cute! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Dayton_Ghetto

I posted earlier but waant to add -- the residential environment really varies by college and one major variable to consider is the type of housing most people choose. At Smith, many (most?) students live in large houses which creates much more of a house-specific community, similar to a fraternity or sorority without the Greek aspect. At my college, most students lived in more typical dorms but there were quite a few who lived in special interest housing or in frats/sororities. I ended up kind of jealous of those people because of that community, but also I liked having my "own" space and we were much more likely to get a single in a traditional dorm. I also lived off campus for two summers and found that to be fun, but SUPER messy (not me, I worked 4 jobs and was rarely around) and an almost more stereotypical "animal house" type experience. At one of those houses, our fridges were stocked with only lite beer and jello shots, and a few bananas.

But tl, dr-- the Smith "house" type environment is very different from the big dorm experience.

This board is so weird and mean. Anyway, I loved being in dorms my entire time at w&m bc I was still meeting new people my senior year. I am not sure there was a difference in the amount of hand-holding (still had to find roommates and be organized for dorm lottery, for summer apt for internship etc) but I thought it created a good sense of community that would be missing if most upperclassmen were living off-campus.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like arrested development if a substantial portion of juniors and seniors don't move on.

We get it, you're a narrow-minded shitty tailgate state alum. Now buzz off.

Speaking of narrow-minded. We get it; you went to an elite private school and required hand holding all four years.

All of the Ivies except Penn? Notre Dame.

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like arrested development if a substantial portion of juniors and seniors don't move on.

We get it, you're a narrow-minded shitty tailgate state alum. Now buzz off.

I went to a huge state school and elected to stay in the dorm all 4 years because I scored a nice large single room at the far end of the hallway and the dorm was literally across the street from most of my classes. For that reason it was also a very desirable address and filled with juniors and seniors: convenience is a major priority when the campus is that big.

Univ Dayton