<p>Re sororities- they may not be much of a factor at her campus; they aren’t at UW, so don’t encourage her to think about them if she doesn’t seem interested. I had an interesting discussion with a lady at a HS graduation party yesterday, she had gone to a southern public U a decade before I went to UW, she talked of “GDI’s” (g— independents) whereas I stated “fratrats” and the feeling the dorm women had that those who considered joining sororities couldn’t cope like the majority of us… Different perspectives for different schools (and eras). Your daughter may find her social group among women in her field, especially being able to live in the same housing with like minded women.</p>
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<p>Berkeley currently only guarantees for 1 year, but there is a lot of student housing that is walking distance from the campus. Also with co-ops and frats/sororities, there are options that provide more of a built-in social life than living off-campus in an apartment with just a few other people. My S1 lives in a co-op one block from campus - which is closer than some of the dorms.</p>
<p>In the midwest college towns like Madison or Ann Arbor the off campus living is in neighborhoods that are nearly all students so you see other students all the time–no isolation.</p>
<p>In my S’s college city, he lives in an off-campus apartment complex designed and built for students only. There are hundreds of kids living there. It’s exactly like the on-campus school owned apartments only it’s a few miles from campus. The complex even has their own bus that goes back and forth to campus every 30 minutes. He definitely doesn’t feel isolated in any way.</p>