<p>You can also rent spaces around campus. The Autumn Inn rents parking spaces and is a short walk from the quad. There are parking lots in town that likely do the same (check out the Thorne’s parking garage). </p>
<p>But no, as a first year you can’t get a parking permit so you won’t be able to park on campus except in the (limited) street or public parking spaces. If you can avoid it, I would counsel not bringing a car. Ask someone to drive you on the first day, so they can take your car back. Parking in Noho is very limited, and everytime it snows or threatens to snow, you have to move your car to the snow lot and then trudge down and get it when the snow “emergency” ends, which is a big pain. </p>
<p>Also, paying for the parking space might get expensive, and even when you’re an upperclassman and “allowed” to have a car on campus, you have to join a lottery to have a chance of getting one of the few parking permits and you have to seriously pay through the nose. </p>
<p>There are enough people who live in the Boston area and go to Smith to help you get to/from campus and the cost of keeping a car at Smith IMO far exceeds that of the occasional $46 bus ticket.</p>