<p>S2 was a good four hours from home at his directional college. Most of his friends there were a least a couple of hours from home. His school and all others in our state accept up to 18% from oos. S2’s school always fills it’s 18% quota. </p>
<p>At his school there is an exodus from the dorms after freshman year. But there is a large neighborhood with big old houses built in the 1940’s directly across from the university that is almost all student rentals. S2 and three roommates spent three years there in an old house two blocks from campus. The whole neighborhood is a big student community…always furniture out in the yards,kids out playing bball, walking in groups to class or to other houses to hang out and yes,party on the weekends. Everybody wants to live there,despite the rundown appearances of most of the houses. There are also lots of student apt. complexes nearby. Just because they’re not in the dorms doesn’t mean there’s no student life. </p>
<p>S2’s school is crazy for football weekends. No one would think of going home in the fall on game day.</p>