How to get avoid living on campus freshman year at Indiana University Bloomington?

Here are the possibilities: 1. Her parents live within 25 miles of campus and she lives with them and commutes. 2. She goes somewhere else (e.g. an IU branch campus or Ivy Tech campus close to home) for one semester (taking at least 15 credit hours), then transfers. 3. She goes to school part-time (less than 12 credit hours per semester) 4. She waits until she is 21 to start at IU. 5. You two get married or start a family. Since you are planning to live together anyway, marriage might be the best option. By the way, the party and alcohol atmosphere are even worse off campus. On campus the RA's try to enforce the rules, though not always successfully. Off campus, the only supervision is by BPD, which steps in when they see someone walking or driving while intoxicated.

You COULD live at home, and commute to school.. School rules are school rules, if you want to go to school there, then you follow the rules. this is ESPECIALLY true if you have any grants or scholarships. Many of those specify where you can live, and ALL of them specify that if you break any of the school rules your award could be voided. One of the things you learn as you become an adult is that there are rules you can fight, adn rules you can't. This is one you can't. Put your efforts into getting good grades your first year so that you don't get dropped because of bad grades.

Many colleges that have enough housing require freshman (sometimes even sophomores or older) to live on campus because studies have shown that students that do so have, on average, better grades than students living off campus, and also feel more connected to the university. Many colleges offer wellness floors and similar for students who do not want to be around drinking. And there are also colleges where drinking is much less a part of the social scene than at others. If your college requires you to live on campus, the only ways to get out of that are normally if your family lives within a certain number of miles of the campus, and you plan to live with them; or if you have a medical issue that means you absolutely cannot live in student housing, not even with accommodations, or if you're a transfer student with over a certain number of credits, or etc. Indiana U lists out their exceptions here: http://www.rps.indiana.edu/resrequire.cfml?page=exemptions IU does offer wellness housing. Details are here: http://www.fwc.indiana.edu/index.cfml

Here are the possibilities: 1. Her parents live within 25 miles of campus and she lives with them and commutes. 2. She goes somewhere else (e.g. an IU branch campus or Ivy Tech campus close to home) for one semester (taking at least 15 credit hours), then transfers. 3. She goes to school part-time (less than 12 credit hours per semester) 4. She waits until she is 21 to start at IU. 5. You two get married or start a family. Since you are planning to live together anyway, marriage might be the best option. By the way, the party and alcohol atmosphere are even worse off campus. On campus the RA's try to enforce the rules, though not always successfully. Off campus, the only supervision is by BPD, which steps in when they see someone walking or driving while intoxicated.

Many colleges that have enough housing require freshman (sometimes even sophomores or older) to live on campus because studies have shown that students that do so have, on average, better grades than students living off campus, and also feel more connected to the university. Many colleges offer wellness floors and similar for students who do not want to be around drinking. And there are also colleges where drinking is much less a part of the social scene than at others. If your college requires you to live on campus, the only ways to get out of that are normally if your family lives within a certain number of miles of the campus, and you plan to live with them; or if you have a medical issue that means you absolutely cannot live in student housing, not even with accommodations, or if you're a transfer student with over a certain number of credits, or etc. Indiana U lists out their exceptions here: http://www.rps.indiana.edu/resrequire.cfml?page=exemptions IU does offer wellness housing. Details are here: http://www.fwc.indiana.edu/index.cfml