<p>Are you saying that 97% of NEU students live ON campus? I’m not not sure that is accurate.</p>
<p>That’s definitely not accurate. Many students live near campus (I’m not sure if an apartment a block away is the traditional definition of commuting), and NU is definitely working on building more dorms. That said, I knew and still know many students who live more than a block away.</p>
<p>I’m inclined to think that something must have happened with the RA’s. Finding new RA’s quickly is enough of a hassle for the school that I don’t think they’d make up reasons to do it. And I don’t always give Northeastern the benefit of the doubt. I’ll be asking some current students I know if they know anything.</p>
<p>97% of freshmen live on campus. 58% or undergraduates live on campus. Virtually all the rest live off campus away from their families. Very few are true “commuters”.</p>
<p>So it’s 3% freshmen commuter students, not 3% commuter students, yes? Northeastern has a TON of students living off-campus. </p>
<p>I do agree that it’s not a commuter school in the traditional sense. Northeastern used to be a commuter school where people commuted from home, further away. Now many of them live in apartments with other students near campus to save money (or whatever their reasons are). Definitely a different vibe from what most think of as a commuter school, and it definitely does not empty out on evenings and weekends.</p>
<p>Correct eireann. I posted too quickly. It seems that Mannix has been successful in creating a furor about Northeastern without any verified facts.</p>
<p>This thread is closed. Please open a thread with actual evidence in future.</p>