Here’s a quote from a famous study, which isn’t hearsay and isn’t bloviation from Ultra-Orthodox blog commenters- it was a well-researched study done by Modern Orthodox types who support college:
From a blog piece by Rabbi Reuven Spolter:
That’s right. One quarter. If twenty students graduated from your local high school and head off to campus, five of them won’t consider themselves Orthodox in four years – after a full twelve years of intensive Orthodox education. What causes this drop off? It’s not the intellectual pressures, by and large. No, it’s the social environment.
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Most of the above blog post from Rabbi Spolter has been snipped for family reading. Starwolf’s anecdote notwithstanding, the evidence is strongly against co-ed colleges. This is not my false claim. This is the product of a well-researched study done by a Modern Orthodox organization. So much for the claim that 12 years of yeshiva education inoculates someone against the moral dangers of a college. I agree with Gourmet that local CUNY colleges are a much better option than dorming.The question is a local CUNY vs. Touro, Lander or YU. The lack of ivy and over-sized marble porticoes on the frum colleges is a small price to pay for Orthodoxy. You can still get a job with those degrees.