<p>my daughter had a great experience freshman year in a dorm.
It was mostly freshman, which was an advantage for her in a couple ways.
She was first gen college, and so the other students, while they weren’t first gen, at least were not old hands at the college thing and they could learn together.
Her school requires Hum 110, for all freshman, and the dorm often studied together in their common area.
Since students were new to the college, they didn’t already have groups of kids to hang with, and it may have been easier to meet people.
I don’t think it should be required, any more than one kind of school fits all people, but it worked well for her.</p>