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[gee_ess]

^^Every college campus is different. Suitcase colleges are also often called commuter colleges because a large percentage of the student body commutes to campus and therefore, does not live in oncampus housing. This may be the case here. Students also leave campus because the activities or town is lacking...

[33girl]

Originally Posted by gee_ess

^^Every college campus is different. Suitcase colleges are also often called commuter colleges because a large percentage of the student body commutes to campus and therefore, does not live in oncampus housing. This may be the case here. Students also leave campus because the activities or town is lacking...

No, these are two different things.

Commuter colleges are meant to be that way....there is not enough housing available to accomodate the majority of the student body. The majority of students go home at the end of the day, they don't live in dorms or apartments near the college.

Suitcase colleges have ample housing on and off campus (near the school) for students to live there during the week. They just go to their hometowns on weekends because (in their perception) there is nothing to keep them around.

"Suitcase college" has a negative connotation. "Commuter college" does not and should not.

[breathesgelatin]

Originally Posted by gee_ess

^^Every college campus is different. Suitcase colleges are also often called commuter colleges because a large percentage of the student body commutes to campus and therefore, does not live in oncampus housing. This may be the case here. Students also leave campus because the activities or town is lacking...

Aren't suitcase colleges and commuter colleges somewhat different? As in, commuter colleges are often in urban areas, have no student housing, and everyone drives in every day to school and leaves to go to their own home/housing in the evenings. Suitcase college implies that people go to school during the week and live on campus, but vamoose on Friday at 5 PM. Suitcase colleges are often in rural areas where there isn't much to do in the community on the weekends, thus your high school social life seems more appealing.

To the OP, if you go to a suitcase school, it seems like you have a great opportunity to sell your sorority as something to do on the weekends and an awesome social opportunity.