<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>
</ul>
<p>Even that could differ campus to campus. Where I went, fraternity and sorority houses were on campus, owned by the university, and mixed in among the dorms -it would have been silly to have thought of them any differently from dorms in terms of commuting. In other schools, they are off campus, not owned by the university, and a few blocks away, and I suppose that would technically fall under commuting.</p>