Those % numbers can be very misleading. Some schools with attractive/affordable nearby off campus options can tilt the numbers downwards. Say a group of full time students rent a house right next to their college?. If the college owns the house (and some/many colleges do…) they are not considered commuters but they are if they rent it from someone else (very common around some/many colleges especially those located away from super affluent areas). In practicality you wouldn’t consider those students commuters either way and the same extends to the school as a whole provided the school has plenty of in house options available and the student body comes from far and wide… The second is important as you can have a “suitcase” school with a large % residential number but everyone deserts the campus on the weekend in contrast to one where upper classmen tend to rent from X-landlord and are part of the community…
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