Should College Freshmen Live in Dorms?

Colleges typically require freshmen to live on campus in dormitories. The idea is that total immersion in campus life increases students’ chance of academic success. But is that true? A recent paper suggests that it is—for certain students. The biggest beneficiaries of living on a campus were incoming freshmen with high-school grade point averages or ACT scores that put them in the bottom third of their class. Read full article in the Wall Street Journal, Oct. 17, 2020, https://www.wsj.com/articles/for-some-college-students-living-on-campus-helps-their-gpa-11602884953