Since DE is so small, do a lot of kids just go home? Like my house is only an hour away so I could… Or do students tend to stay on campus, and if so, what do they do?
My daughter goes there. She always seems to be doing something social on the weekends. She joined a sorority and loves it.
UD is by no means a “suitcase” school. There are a myriad of social/club and athletic activities available if a student seeks them out (check out the activities website which lists some of them). 2/3rds of the students from UD are from OOS as well. We live in South Jersey about an hour from UD. After her first visit home freshman year it was like pulling teeth trying to get her to come home to visit again. The campus is loaded with students on weekends.
I’m confused by your question…??? do you mean the “state” of Delaware is so small? with close to 17,000 students UD is hardly considered a small school… My daughter is a senior… she’s involved with many clubs, sports, activites and a sorority as well as an active social life with her friends… my son is a sophomore and has an active social life as well as frat life… My son has two of his best friends living right in Newark… and yet live on campus and even they rarely go home! We live just under two hours from campus in NJ and I dropped my son off in August and had to drag him home at Thanksgiving… My D comes home 1-2 times a semester but that’s only because her boyfriend is still local. Honestly if you are bored or if you can’t find something to do, you are the one doing something wrong… My D graduates in less than 6 months and she’s panicking because she has yet to fulfill her UD bucket list!
If you don’t drink and go to frat parties, you will have nothing to do. There are some on campus events but they end at midnight and for a college student that may as well be 8 pm. But if going from frat party to frat party is your thing, come to UD.
@udnurse do you really feel this way about the school as a whole? Disappointing to hear as I am not into huge parties and don’t drink much, but am considering UD. I got into the honors program-I imagine there must be some people in it who aren’t huge partyers.
I don’t believe you are going to find any major universities that have any significant number of organized social activities between 12:00 midnight and 3:00-4:00 am. There are a number of students at UD, in both honors anf non-honors categories, who do just fine without partying and find other ways to occupy their time. In fact, if you focus on partying at UD, again like at most schools, you are not likely to be around very long. Also there are responsible, and irresponsible, ways to “party”. So really it is up to the individual, based upon their interests and motivation, to formulate a college lifestyle to address responsibly both their scholastic and social interests. IMHO, based upon on D’s experiences at UD, that the majority of UD students are able to do so.