<p>Hi, I noticed that a lot of colleges require you to live in a dorm room for a certain period of time. Do they enforce this? If so, how?</p>
<p>By charging you for it.</p>
<p>My school requires all freshmen to live in the dorms unless they qualify for an exemption, like living at home with parents within a certain distance from campus (I think its 50 miles), being married or having a kid, or being over 21. You have to provide proof you qualify for an exemption or I assume you’re billed for a room or have your registration cancelled.</p>
<p>My college required freshman to live in dorms. I think they also required sophomores too, but I really don’t remember if sophomores had to.</p>
<p>However, they would let freshman live off campus if they put up a big enough fuss. I think that only works for smaller schools, though. </p>
<p>I loved living on campus, though. Maybe you should give it a try before knocking it.
I miss getting “free” HBO and Shotime. We had like 8 different channels worth HBO.</p>
<p>cellardweller has it right. You will be charged for a dorm room and probably a meal plan, but no one cares whether you actually sleep there or not. My freshman year roommate only ever showed up once, to tell me that I have the room to myself because she is staying with a friend off-campus. I didn’t mind :)</p>