Why do so many students live off campus?

<p>For a 20 year old, there are 60 years of life expectancy to train for successful independent adult life, what is the rush? To get an ideal apartment is not easy, as I said, you may have to start looking in March, its a long process and a learning experience. But why the kid has to do it in the most critical part of their college career and its on the parents dime.</p>

<p>True, all the kids attending UChicago are smart and capable. However, their smartness is not equal, if everyone is getting A, why there is grading? So, there are B’s, C’s, D’s or even F’s. There is no study ever made to correlate on and off campus Student’s GPA, so I am not going to argue the outcomes, but my sentence started with IF. What if to some students off campus living did distract their study? and it happens to be your kid? Do you want to take that risk?</p>