<p>My college makes no distinction between freshman who are local and live at home and the upperclassman who live off-campus. They are both considered commuters. However, My school is not a commuter school in the sense that the vast majority of students do not live on campus and are from the area. A suitcase school is one that has a good percentage of students going home for the weekends, but that does not make it a commuter school because in a lot of cases the students will travel a large distance to go home on the weekend.</p>