<p>What colleges allow freshmen to live off-campus?</p>
<p>Wisconsin-Madison. Lots of choices too.</p>
<p>Any else? (10 char)</p>
<p>bump................</p>
<p>I would avoid colleges that don't require freshmen to live on campus. Similarly, I wouldn't have wanted to have been raised by parents who didn't care if their kids lived across town and just came by for family meetings.</p>
<p>You have little understanding of how private dorms work. They are no different than the publics--except maybe nicer with better food. You still live with several hundred fellow students.</p>
<p>I'm a college Dean of Students. I know all too well about private dorms. I deal every day with students whose college experiences are negatively impacted by broken promises, mid-year rate increases, caps on utilities, hidden charges, non-students who were rented space in their "student" apartment because the parent company wanted high occupancy, etc.</p>
<p>The University of California schools all allow freshman to live anywhere they want.
If you have a great reason (food allergies that cannot be accomodated in a dorm and you need to cook your own food, for example), you may find that even schools that are rigid on paper are willing to make an exception.</p>