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Anonymous wrote:My DC is looking at colleges in the T40 range and some SLACS. If you have a kid who attends/attended or are informed about housing and whether or not 4 years of on campus housing is guaranteed please share. For example, I can’t find information regarding this for WUSTL on their website. They mentioned freshman and sophomores living on south 40 but nothing about how many years of guaranteed on campus housing. I’ve heard that because of increased undergraduate class sizes, upperclassmen are having to move off campus earlier and not able to get on campus housing. This is a consideration for my DC who will not have access to a car while at college.

Yale does

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Anonymous wrote:I can see why some parents would want the ease and certainty of guaranteed housing. But for those kids who are jetting off to colleges that are IN metropolitan cities like Nashville, Houston, NYC, LA - there is nothing more freeing than living independently outside of the constraints and rules of the school. Kids who live off campus actually have to be an adult in the city. Landlords, utilities, maintenance, package deliveries, sublets, parking - they need to handle all this. And, at least to my kid and their friends, there's thankfully no more required meal plan. They figure out the local grocery stores and make runs to trader joe's for the week's provisions, split the costs, and figure out who is cooking meals. My kid was actually bummed they Had to stay on campus Sophomore year. But, it's likely equally a factor of the type of kids who choose these kinds of universities over a small suburban or rural campus.

This post made me laugh. You seem to think "the type of kids who choose these kinds of universities" are... better? Smarter? There is nothing better or smarter in choosing an urban school as opposed to a suburban or rural campus. Everyone eventually gets their own place and lives independently.

Way to jump to a conclusion. I made no such remark. But absolutely the kids who want to live on an isolated campus in the Berkshires are looking for something very different at 18 years old than a kid who wants to live in LA and NYC. I’m not saying they can’t get to independence eventually. But some kids are ready for and looking for the excitement of a city as their backdrop at 18. Some don’t want anything to do with it.

My kids already live in a city. Oldest is going to an urban campus— but it has a defined campus.

Anonymous wrote:Can you imagine being a 21 or 22 year old senior, still living in a dorm with an RA and visitation hours, showering in a hall bathroom while that weird guy from down the hall is taking a dump and farting, and being pestered to attend dorm activities in the common room with stale pizza and bad movies? No thanks. Live on campus long enough to meet people and then grow up and get an apartment.

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Anonymous wrote:I can see why some parents would want the ease and certainty of guaranteed housing. But for those kids who are jetting off to colleges that are IN metropolitan cities like Nashville, Houston, NYC, LA - there is nothing more freeing than living independently outside of the constraints and rules of the school. Kids who live off campus actually have to be an adult in the city. Landlords, utilities, maintenance, package deliveries, sublets, parking - they need to handle all this. And, at least to my kid and their friends, there's thankfully no more required meal plan. They figure out the local grocery stores and make runs to trader joe's for the week's provisions, split the costs, and figure out who is cooking meals. My kid was actually bummed they Had to stay on campus Sophomore year. But, it's likely equally a factor of the type of kids who choose these kinds of universities over a small suburban or rural campus.

This post made me laugh. You seem to think "the type of kids who choose these kinds of universities" are... better? Smarter? There is nothing better or smarter in choosing an urban school as opposed to a suburban or rural campus. Everyone eventually gets their own place and lives independently.

Way to jump to a conclusion. I made no such remark. But absolutely the kids who want to live on an isolated campus in the Berkshires are looking for something very different at 18 years old than a kid who wants to live in LA and NYC. I’m not saying they can’t get to independence eventually. But some kids are ready for and looking for the excitement of a city as their backdrop at 18. Some don’t want anything to do with it.

Anonymous wrote:No wonder you folks still have adult kids living at home at age 30. I was an adult at 18 and signed my own lease.

Agree with PP, let the kids grow up.

Anonymous wrote:Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin all have housing for all four years. Colby has built additional dorms and senior apartments so only a handful of seniors live off campus with special permission.

- Colby grad

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Anonymous wrote:I can see why some parents would want the ease and certainty of guaranteed housing. But for those kids who are jetting off to colleges that are IN metropolitan cities like Nashville, Houston, NYC, LA - there is nothing more freeing than living independently outside of the constraints and rules of the school. Kids who live off campus actually have to be an adult in the city. Landlords, utilities, maintenance, package deliveries, sublets, parking - they need to handle all this. And, at least to my kid and their friends, there's thankfully no more required meal plan. They figure out the local grocery stores and make runs to trader joe's for the week's provisions, split the costs, and figure out who is cooking meals. My kid was actually bummed they Had to stay on campus Sophomore year. But, it's likely equally a factor of the type of kids who choose these kinds of universities over a small suburban or rural campus.

This post made me laugh. You seem to think "the type of kids who choose these kinds of universities" are... better? Smarter? There is nothing better or smarter in choosing an urban school as opposed to a suburban or rural campus. Everyone eventually gets their own place and lives independently.