<p>f. scottie, I really have to disagree with you. It is a four year residential college at Yale. I am not sure with what authority you are able to define a “true” four year college. </p>
<p>Living together in college groups on old campus as freshmen serves to integrate the class and breach potential divides that would arise from having students live in college for all four years (which does happen for Silliman and Timothy Dwight, which by the way, are the first real 4-year colleges in your book, not the ones being built at princeton). BUT right from the first day, you are interacting with upperclassmen, advisors, the master, the dean, freshman counselors from your college. You play intramurals for you college, eat in the dining hall there, study in its library. You have access to EVERY amenity your college campus has. Your point is really somewhat superficial because college identity goes far beyond living on the campus. Even after members move off campus, for instance, they still identify with their college (as I did). When you live at Yale, you realize that the college goes far deeper than its physical campus. I went to Branford College first, and Yale second - and I only lived in the Branford College Campus two years.</p>