DS1 is off to uni soon as some of you know.
DS2 will be applying this autumn and has recently started looking at courses he might be interested in so he can get an idea of the sort of grades he'll need. The early front-runner is the same uni DS1 is going to (though not the same course).
He'll probably change his mind 20 times before he has to make a proper decision, and even then he might not actually get the grades he needs. But my first instinct is that it might not be a good thing to have siblings at the same uni. To me a big part of the point of going is to get away from the family and gain some independence, and I could see them sticking together and not really socialising as much with other people, either as a comfort sort of thing or because they just felt a sense of obligation to each other. DS1 is not a very sociable person anyway, and if he does manage to make some sort of a social life for himself in his first year, it would be sad if he then neglected it in favour of his brother.
On the plus side, the location is fairly close to us and it would make getting them and their belongings to and from uni a bit easier - and if one of them eventually gets a car they could lift-share. But that doesn't seem like the most important consideration.
Anyone been in this position? Do you think it helped or hindered your DC, or didn't make much difference?