<p>Right now I'm a senior in high school and I've been looking at colleges to go to and I've found one that I really like and would love to attend, however, the only problem is that it's primarily a commuter campus and I don't plan on being a commuter. I was wondering whether anyone had any information about living in the college dorms full time while most other students are commuting everyday. Do you find that there is hardly anyone there after classes end and there's nothing to do on weekends? Or do commuter colleges try to organize activities on weekends for students who aren't commuters? If anyone is in the same situation of being a non-commuter on a mostly commuter campus I would just really love to hear your thoughts about what you like and don't like about it so I can decide whether I should just look at different colleges. Thanks!</p>
<p>What school is this? There are some commuter schools which are so large that even if 25% of the freshmen live on campus, it still means that thousands of students live in the dorms or university apartments. On the other hand some schools are so dead that you’d need a car to have a social life. </p>
<p>Hello, I just graduated from a college where only 7 or 8 percent of students live on campus. Out of over 8,000 students at my college, only just over 600 live on campus. It’s true that the campus is usually dead by the evenings and weekends. At my college we do have events on some weeknights and on Fridays that take place on campus. I think most of the events on weeknights and Fridays at my college are attended usually by resident students but that doesn’t necessarily mean that commuters don’t take part in the event. I think the best part of living on campus where so few students dorm is that you usually make some friends who live on campus. You can have several well-known students on campus who dorm and who most of the resident students know. But that is just my observation and opinion. </p>
<p>Alright, thank you! The college I was looking at was Bridgewater State University which has around 10,000 students. Also I’m not sure if this is a stupid question or not, but I was wondering whether commuters are still assigned dorm rooms and they just don’t use them or are only the people who will actually be living and staying on campus full time the ones that receive the rooms?</p>
<p>No commuter students never recieve a room in the dorms. Why would they? They already have one, just not on campus. </p>
<p>Also according to the school’s common data set, a majority of freshmen (62.7%) live on campus in college owned housing. Hardly a true commuter school. </p>
<p>Also, you might want to look beyond the commuter/non-commuter divide to the “suitcase school” factor. Do most of the people who live on campus stay on campus during the weekends, or do they rush home as soon as Friday classes let out? S1 just graduated from a school with a lot of commuters and “suitcase” kids, but after his first semester, he rarely came home except for holidays. I know of kids at the same school who go home every. single. weekend. I’d say if most of the people who live on campus stay there, you’ll be OK. IMHO, people who run home every weekend for no good reason are missing out more than they’ll ever know. </p>