The “traditional” college experience — moving into a dorm, living on campus, the full-time residential experience — isn’t for everyone, and it isn’t required to get a real degree. If a local school is a genuine option, living at home for a while, even just the first year or two, is one of the largest single savings available to a student, on the same scale as the community college strategy covered earlier in this series — just applied to housing instead of tuition.
