<p>We have first hand experience with the University of Delaware. I’ll try to highlight a few things. First, the campus is beautiful and well maintained. Dorms are varied. Freshmen honors students live in the Russell/Thompson/Lane complex. Plain dorms but great location and nice community feel to them. I understand the Rodney/Dickinson area is farther from campus, more of a party atmosphere. Not sure about the inside of those buildings but I’m sure they’re nothing to write home about. Upperclass housing is in older dorms along the green area. Much of it has been updated and is really quite nice. Again, nice location. Older dorms (Pencader) are being torn down and new ones being built. Beautiful new one might be ready in the fall? Location though is far from main campus. On to academics. Honors does provide a nice intro to the school with better advising and automatic housing in Russell complex. Class size is between 15-25 for some honors classes but others are just kind of a add on component. Admittance to the honors program is getting increasingly difficult. Our student has had some great classes and advisors that have helped her in many ways and have gone out of their way for her. Partying seems to be no more or less than at other large schools. Or small ones for that matter. Yes, the out of state numbers are misleading because the states border Delaware but does provide some change from all attending from the same high schools. We are out of state and along with DuPont and Gore we subsidize the school quite nicely! Because of a merit scholarship the cost was just slightly over our own state costs. I’ll try to answer any other questions.</p>