How old is a freshman?

MidwestMom2Kids_1
Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:38:47 +0000

My goodness. Anyone between 17 and 20 is likely to do just fine in a typical freshman situation (freshman dorm, freshman classes). If you are under 17 or over 20 you might feel somewhat uncomfortable in an all-freshman dorm. At my undergrad college, some of us freshmen were in a dorm with about a dozen law students from out of state who had chosen to live in a dorm; anyone between 17 and 27 would have been fine, and had like-aged friends, on my freshman floor. At the beginning of the year, my two roommates and I were 18, 18 and 19; by the end of the year, 19, 19, and 20. (One had transferred in after a year spent elsewhere.)