My daughter was very anti-LLC. I was surprised as she loved hanging out with the theater kids in high school and was majoring in theater. The way the LLCs worked at her school was that they were by major (or a major interest). Well, she was much smarter than me in knowing what she wanted. I think there were about 40 freshmen in the theater/dance major and they had almost all their classes together. She was SICK of those kids after spending the whole day with them and didn’t want to spend more time with them at night. The LLC also would have had one more class together at night, sort of a seminar. Her randomly assigned roommate was a dance major but also in the Honors program, and she didn’t want to live in the honors dorm or in the LLC.
A childhood friend of daughter’s was in the LLC for psychology. She HATED it and ended up moving into the sorority house after a semester.
I’d let your son decide where he wants to live. It’s hard to know what you want at 18 years old, but sometimes there is just a feeling of what works.