<p>Why doesn't U Penn guarantee 4 years of housing for its students? Plus, does living outside the school pose any problems to your social or academic life?</p>
<p>They don't guarantee housing because they can't. There isn't enough of it. Simple. 60% of students live on campus, and the other 40% live in the surrounding 5 blocks or so. If living off-campus posed any problems to your social life, it would be a cold day in hell.</p>
<p>Living off-campus actually greatly enhances your social life because it's easier to throw parties. The people that move off first are usually people in sororities/frats, athletes, and other very social people. The only way it could possibly hurt your academic life would be if the slightly longer walks to class encouraged you to skip more often.</p>
<p>yes, Wharton students and only Wharton students get guaranteed housing. They also get free massages, starbucks, and concubines.</p>
<p>SEAS students build their own dorms.</p>
<p>Wharton has recently introduced a new "bread and circuses" policy to appease the angry SAS masses.</p>
<p>wow thats amazing :p "They also get free massages, starbucks, and concubines." That would even beat out Harvard ;P</p>
<p>Technically you are guaranteed housing all 4 years if you stay in the same college house you were in freshman year. Sadly, most students opt not to spend 4 years in the Quad and none stay in Hill longer than they have to. Many students in frats and sororities live in the houses sophomore year and then in off campus houses after that. Many teams also have houses off campus. Richer students will be able to afford the nice apartments that are on campus. I think it's more juniors and seniors who are not greek and not on teams who live in off campus houses, but then again the upperclassmen I know could be a group that doesn't represent the majority of upperclassmen at Penn.</p>
<p>I'd say it's more greek upperclassmen and athletes off campus. As far as on-campus goes, the upperclassmen who live in the highrises are largely the "studying" type, if you know what I mean.</p>
<p>Richer students are generally not the ones living on campus...</p>
<p>Basically, as mattwonder said, the "studying"/anti-social type stays on campus and the partying type moves off as soon as possible.</p>
<p>i hear wharton students also get free Penn email for life and a free ski trip their senior year</p>
<p>meng, didn't you get the sarcasm memo?</p>
<p>free beluga whales for wharton students!</p>
<p>some stories just deserve to be repeated</p>
<p>especially when you write 2 five page papers, back to back</p>