<p>From what I've been reading and hearing, most college freshmen live on-campus in dorms because 1) they're required to by the college, or 2) it's an easier transition to college life since you're near your classes and meet fellow freshmen. However, it seems like after they've gotten used to things, they want to get the heck out of the on-campus dorms after freshman year and move to apartments or other dorms. Is it really uncommon for sophomores, juniors, or seniors to live on-campus?</p>
<p>At least at my university, it seems like about 30% of on-campus residents are sophomores/juniors/seniors. (I haven’t met any seniors in the dorms, though.) Lots of them stay because they couldn’t get an apartment, wanted to be an RA, or just enjoyed being on campus since it’s so much closer.</p>
<p>It depends on the school. Mine is really residential and the majority of students live on campus.</p>
<p>Varies dramatically by college. What you stated is common at many colleges, but there are many exceptions, too. At Harvard, for example, the overwhelming majority of students live on campus all four years.</p>
<p>^ Yeah, it varies by college. Something like 97% of students at my school live on campus all four years. </p>
<p>And given how nice the upperclassmen dorms are, there is really no need to live anywhere else.</p>
<p>Yeah…Emory requires all students to live on campus for fresh/sophomore years.</p>
<p>Thank you all for clearing that up…but does anyone know how the dorm situation is at the University of Texas at Austin (do most kids stay all 4 yrs, or do they move out)?</p>
<p>More kids would move out at UT, because Austin is so cool and the campus is so big that even living in dorms you have to take buses. Also, I think the dorms are actually more expensive then some near-by apartments.</p>
<p>Depends on the school, no one but a few select seniors are even given the option to live off campus at my school…</p>
<p>94% of Stanford undergrads live on campus… and that’s not including students who are abroad, which brings the total to almost 97%. Heck, a good chunk of graduate students live on campus. And yet, there are some schools where barely 20% of undergrads live on campus.</p>
<p>UT is one of those schools with a low percentage. Even a lot of freshmen don’t live on campus, simply because there’s not enough room to accommodate everyone in the dorms. If you want to live on-campus, that’s great; if you want to live off-campus, that’s great too. If you’re going/interested in going to UT, just join a lot of activities & organizations to meet friends, instead of relying on just your proximity to people (although if you do live in the dorms, that is a great way to meet people, just not everyone).</p>
<p>I think on average 25% of students (including grad students) live on-campus at my school. Freshmen are required to live on campus and then about half of sophomores live on campus (pretty much all upper classmen move off-campus).</p>
<p>at my school freshmen and sophomores are required to live on campus. i notice that after that mandatory requirement, most seem to find off-campus apartments that are pretty close to the main campus.</p>
<p>After freshman year? Not so much. But definitely after sophomore year. There aren’t too many juniors on campus and only a few seniors.</p>
<p>Totally depends on the school.</p>