Students must move after Freshman year?

Marian
Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:46:27 +0000

This varies from campus to campus and is definitely something worth checking out before applying to colleges.

I think that the urban/rural pattern annasdad mentioned is generally valid, but there are exceptions. My daughter’s school, Cornell, which is certainly not urban (although Ithaca calls itself a city), only guarantees housing for two years. Practically everyone lives off-campus or in Greek houses as juniors and seniors, and some of the sophomores do, too.

Off-campus living is not necessarily a bad thing, especially at a school where all your friends are doing it, too. Both of my kids liked it.