Actually, that depends on the particular personality of the student concerned and his/her home neighborhood. Several HS classmates who attended the local NYC area colleges with dorms did avail themselves with parental encouragement for the following reasons:
- To ameliorate the effects of college becoming HS 2.0 by living with parents.
- To avoid local peers/older neighbors of similar/same ages were bad influences...whether they were slacking HS/college dropouts or running with local criminal element.
- To be in close frequent proximity with similar/same aged youths who were more likely to be positively motivated by attending college.
- Learning how to cope living away from parental supervision.
Incidentally, this last bit is a major concern of a client whose older D opted to attend one of our local public colleges precisely because she’s a bit of a homebody who loves her bedroom/home arrangement which concerns the client regarding learning how to be more independent from parental supervision and to learn to cope in living in less-than-optimal living situations(i.e. dorms/sharing apt with multiple roommates).
Incidentally, none of those kids attended NYU. Instead, they attended some of the other public/private colleges including Barnard/Columbia.