<p>How does housing work? I know freshman are randomly assigned to a residential college, but I don't know anything beyond that. Do sophs get to pick their roommates? Do they stay in their residential colleges? Is there a choice? Do most decide to switch? And what about upperclassmen?</p>
<p>Also, who teaches precepts? Professors or TAs?</p>
<p>As a sophomore, you stay in your residential college (which most all residential colleges are composed of several different buildings). You can move to a different building, but you stay in your college. You can pick your roommates also. Actually, you can "draw" with up to seven other people, and then depending on your draw time, you'd decide what kind of rooms you want. </p>
<p>As an upperclassman, starting in 2007 (with the opening of the sixth residential college, Whitman college), there will be many choices. As usual, juniors and seniors can be RCA (residential college advisors) and live in the colleges with frosh and sophs. In 2007, juniors and seniors can choose to stay in the residential college system, or to move into upperclass housing. 3 of the colleges (not sure which ones) will be 4-year colleges, and 3 will remain 2-year colleges.</p>
<p>It is very confusing to non-students and hopefully in the future the housing process will be simplified. Having lived there for a year and read all sorts of articles about it, I have "learnt" quite a bunch.</p>
<p>What is "upperclass housing"?</p>
<p>And do you think there's a division between under- and upperclassmen because of the housing change? In other words, is there still a sense of community akin to that in Yale's system?</p>
<p>Re: precepts.</p>
<p>It depends a little bit on what department the class is in and what level it is. TAs lead precepts more frequently in the lower-level classes in the bigger departments (Econ, Politics, History, etc.) Even so, the professor almost always leads at least one precept for any given class, and you can often switch precepts if this is important to you. I'd ballpark the # of precepts led by profs. at 75 - 80%, although current undergrads may be able to cast better light on this.</p>
<p>with the opening of the sixth residential college, will princeton be able to admit a larger class?</p>
<p>Yes. From the Wythes Committee Report of April, 2000:</p>
<p>Size of the Student Body</p>
<p>After reviewing the available data and examining both the desirability and the feasibility of taking such a step, the Committee recommends increasing the total size of the undergraduate student body by approximately 500 additional students (approximately 125 per class). Constructing the necessary residential and dining facilities for this number of additional students is likely to require 3 to 4 years, and larger classes would probably be phased in over a 4-year period, so full implementation of the Committee's recommendation would most probably be achieved in 7 to 8 years.</p>