Moving off campus freshman year?

<p>ok, I know there has been a lot written about freshman having much better experiences living off campus at Harvard, Penn and Columbia. yeah those schools are in major cities, but if I had the money, living off campus as a freshman could be good.
the info seminar person at cornell said that not many freshman live off campus,
the off campus freshman are basically made up of commuters living in and around Ithaca and some freshman who are older, and some freshman who have real big money and want their own place.</p>