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Originally posted by 33girl
Obviously you know more about your school than I do, but even if there's only actual dorm space for 3000, I've never heard of Kent being referred to as a commuter school or would think of it as such.
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For whatever it's worth, we always considered all of the state supported schools in Ohio (At least the ones in the Mid American Conference) commuter schools back when I was there -- with the exception of Ohio University and possibly Ohio State (Big 10) -- simply because the latter was so huge -- although a large number of those students were from the Columbus area, so even OSU was/is a communter school to some extent.
The reason is fairly simple in that all of the schools were reasonably close to cities:
Toledo and Bowling Green = Toledo
Miami of Ohio = Cincinnati and Dayton
Kent = Cleveland & Akron
In terms of O.U., the student body was larger than the population of the City of Athens in those days. Besides the kids from all over Ohio (particularly Cleveland and Columbus), we had a lot of folks from NY, NJ, WV and PA.
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