<p>Wondering about housing after sophomore year. Do most students enter the housing lottery or do they tend to prefer to live off campus? </p>
<p>Also, for those who do go off campus, how far from campus do they tend to live (i.e. can they walk to & from campus for class, parties, etc)?</p>
<p>Most students live off campus junior and senior years. Some do live in town, which is easily walkable, but most live in rental houses (some quite nice, others in poor repair) a couple miles away. Traveller (safe ride system) serves the “country houses” on party nights, but students would need to drive or bike to campus for class. </p>
<p>The university is heading toward making on-campus housing more desirable and will be renovating Graham-Lees and Gaines in the next couple of years. There is much discussion about requiring juniors to live on campus. The on-campus Woods Creek apartments house sophomores who didn’t get in to Greek housing as well as upperclassmen and law students.</p>
<p>Most parties are in the country anyway so off campus housing is typically closer to the party scene, which is really when walking distance matters. The prime real estateWindfall Hill, the Pole Houses, Kappa Hill, a few other well regarded houses in the areais owned by landlords that allow residents to pass down leases, so houses for the most part stay within a fraternity or sorority from year to year. Many houses have been rented by the same fraternity or sorority for decades. Thus living arrangements are dominated by what greek organization you are in.</p>
<p>If you don’t go Greek there is still housing, but likely it will be in town.</p>