<p>Does anyone know where I can go to decide between Newton and Upper? I was accepted ea and am unsure on where to find it. I’ve logged into the agora portal and checked that. There is a tab that says ResLife, is this where I go to choose? Any feedback would be great</p>
<p>I guess we can’t choose this year. BC determines where you’ll go based on wwhere they think your personality fits better.</p>
<p>Really? Is that definite? Have you gone to the My ResLife tab on agora? It’s currently not working for maintenance reasons.</p>
<p>I’m not 100 percent positive because I haven’t filled it out myself yet, but in the BC facebook group those that have filled it out are saying this.</p>
<p>Okay thanks</p>
<p>i go here and durring the summer before your fall semester you fill out a form and can say which one you’d prefer to live on. for the most part, you will be given the one you choose. however, sometimes you might get stuck on newton. i lived on upper and had friends on newton and my opinion is newton sucks. its definitely biased, but newton is so far from everything and a hassel. choose a 4 man room on upper. if you are lucky you will get fitapatrick.</p>
<p>The question about which campus you prefer is on the housing questionnaire that you will fill out in the early summer. (This is the questionnaire that BC uses to match roommates.) </p>
<p>If you ask for Newton, you will almost certainly get a room on the Newton campus. But if you ask for Upper Campus, there is a good chance that you might get assigned to Newton anyway, since usually more people ask for Upper than the number of beds available there. </p>
<p>Newton vs. Upper is one of those “personal preference” issues. There are advantages and disadvantages to each location. You can search the CC archives and find several threads from past years debating this topic. </p>
<p>My son asked for Upper but was assigned to Newton. Although very disappointed at first, he decided after a few weeks that he was actually glad to be on Newton and now recommends it to others. Yes, he thought waiting for the bus – especially in winter – was a royal pain in the you-know-what, but it also gave him a chance to meet people since they were all standing at the bus stop every day. In general, I think there is a greater sense of community on Newton, since everyone there is a freshman and you see each other every day on the bus or in the dining hall. Other advantages to Newton: lots of green open space for impromptu frisbee/soccer/tag football games, better food at Stuart Dining Hall, and a guarantee of no forced triples. Disadvantages to Newton: having to take the bus to/from the main campus and having to get up earlier to allow extra time to get to your first morning class.</p>
<p>That’s what my son thinks but of course, YMMV! :)</p>
<p>^^^
Everything worried_mom said is exactly the experience our son had at the Newton campus. Well stated.</p>
<p>I second worried_mom’s post: I lived on Newton last year, and despite my initial disappointment, there is definitely a sense of community within Newton that you won’t find anywhere else on campus. Within the setting of a large university, it was definitely a huge advantage to be on a “mini-campus” of about 800 people, where i ended up knowing almost everyone.</p>