The U is supposedly 87% commuter. How does this impact social life, etc?

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See new thread to continue discussion of what makes a commuter school so that OP can continue to get feedback on U of U.

What makes a commuter school?

MODERATOR NOTE: **This thread was split from another thread. ** A related question is “Can students at commuter college still have a good social experience?” That is certainly the case at many schools. There are schools like USC where it’s built into the culture that you get the heck off campus as soon as you can, and ones like Rice where the whole student body essentially lives in school housing for 4 years. What differentiates Utah from USC in large part is the inability for Utah to house all of the freshmen that want to stay on campus.