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<p>However, it does not distinguish between the following situations:</p>
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<li>Living in off-campus housing but near campus and not in relatives’ home. This can include fraternity/sorority houses, cooperative houses, and private residence halls as well as apartments and the like.</li>
<li>Living with relatives, typically in the same place one lived as a high school student.</li>
<li>Non-traditional student living where s/he lived before attending college.</li>
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<p>Sometimes, there are hints to be found. For example, San Jose State University has a policy requiring freshmen to live in its residence halls if they are not from within 30 miles or in some non-traditional student categories. The common data set lists about half of freshmen living in its residence halls, indicating that about half of the freshmen are traditional students who moved there to attend college, while the other half are likely to be what people call “commuter” in a colloquial sense. But note that the school also accepts lots of transfer students, who are more likely to be non-traditional students.</p>