<p>What other colleges have Smith's housing system (where your house is where you stay all four years, like in Harry Potter)? </p>
<p>Are there any other (good) colleges with unique housing systems?</p>
<p>Doesn't Yale have something like that?</p>
<p>Rice has that system.</p>
<p>Yea, I've heard Yale and Rice have great housing systems. Chicago has one too, although you are not required to stay in your house all 4 years. However, Chicago does have a dinning hall that looks like Hogwarts.</p>
<p>At Williams you start off in one of the first year dorms, then choose a housing cluster or neighborhood that you will be affiliated with for your next three years. The neighborhood consists of several buildings of different sizes, but social events are shared by the whole neighborhood.</p>
<p>"The student body live in houses that belong to four Neighborhoods -- Currier, Wood, Spencer, and Dodd. These Neighborhoods provide a network of social, educational, and administrative resources to members of their houses. Upper class student housing is comprised of singles, doubles, and suites, though approximately 75% of upper class students live in singles."</p>
<p>the college system at Rice is AWESOME!!!!</p>
<p>At Harvard you start off in a dorm and then "block" with up to eight other friends. You are then lotteried into a "residential house" where you live for the next three years.</p>
<p>At Chicago, your house is your house for as long as you decide to stay on campus or if you decide to change dorms. The house, however, is not a separate building, but a subdivision of a dorm (for example, my dorm, with 300 residents, is separated into 7 houses with about 40 people each). House size ranges from 36 to 108 students, with the typical house being about 80 kids.</p>
<p>What so great about the house system at Chicago is that it's both static and small, and it makes a great instant social unit that I can leave if I want to.</p>
<p>UCSD has a residential college system.</p>
<p>Northwestern also has a few residential colleges, which are essentially thematic dorms. (i.e. college of commerce and industry, college of int'l studies)</p>
<p>^^ Cornell has themed housing too, however, these themed houses are not what the OP has in mind, when asking about schools similar to Smith's house system.</p>
<p>Due to its close to downtown location, your house is very apt to be an actual house at wesleyan. It all depends on a lottery system and is not as permanent as the Hogwarts system. But, there is a lot of variety and eventually, all seniors may wind up in specially designed dorms that look like neighborhood houses on the outside, but are constructed to withstand student wear and tear. Here's a link to the prototype they are working on:
<a href="http://www.wesleyan.edu/masterplan/housing.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.wesleyan.edu/masterplan/housing.html</a></p>