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We had big houses, so we were required to live in all 3 years starting with soph. year. We had large chapters, but we also had a lot of Lincoln girls who didn't live in, so EVERYBODY had to live in. You could move out if you were an "academic redshirt" (5th year senior). The only way you could get out of living in the house was if you got married or went alum...which at that time was not easy to do. I was an upperclassman pledge and they made me move in at the semester, which did not make my apt. roommates very happy. I had to pay my share of the rent there as well. For fraternities, we had (and still have) summer rush, so housing allowed/allows guys to break their housing contract by a certain date and freshmen fraternity guys move right into the house before school starts. My husband's fraternity was really big back when we were in school, so they had two fraternity houses and two annexes and a few guys living out of the house.
At my daughter's school, their houses only sleep 25-35 girls, so not everybody can live in (and not everybody wants to either). Housing will only allow a contract to be broken midyear if the student is one of four positions in a sorority or fraternity--ie kitchen manager, house manager, etc.. She was one of the few sophs who got a spot, and once you get a spot you always have one. She will be living in until she graduates because it is cheaper than the dorms and it's right in the middle of campus. I think at UGA everybody lives in sophomore year (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong). I think housing is tight, and I know a lot of schools guarantee housing for freshmen and sophomores, so perhaps this is why? Just speculation on my part.
I liked living in the house--I didn't like moving everything out into the hallway every semester and switching rooms, and when we moved into this old house I told my husband taking a shower here was like living in the Kappa house all over again....."FLUSH!" But the positives far outweighed the negatives, IMO.
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