<p>Hi, I was accepted to transfer and will be heading there on Friday to check out the university. I will be going to an info session, along with a tour. Is there anything I should look for and/or ask? What are the preferable dorms (larger rooms, newer building,etc.)? </p>
<p>What else should I know? (The better meal plan? How to find out the best professors? etc.)</p>
<p>Depends on what year you are.
Most Sophomores live in Branscomb. Best location, decent rooms. Avoid Alumni Lawn (ex. Tollman), which has smaller rooms.</p>
<p>Most juniors/seniors live in Towers or the highland quad (Morgan/Lewis). </p>
<p>There’s a new dorm called Blakemore that was previously a retirement home and is supposedly pretty nice, but a bit removed from campus. Will probably be mostly sophomores as well.</p>
<p>Best professors can be found on ratemyprofessor. Definitely look before choosing classes. T</p>
<p>The meal plans also depend on your year. Sophomores tend to get the 14 meals/week plan. Juniors tend to get fewer (eating out more I suppose, and more access to kitchens and such). Freshman get 21/week and we struggle to use them all… its a lot of food.</p>
<p>I will be a junior. Would you recommend the towers (are these apartments vs. dorms?) or the quad? If the quad, which and why?</p>
<p>I’ll be sure to avoid the Alumni lawn. Any other tips?</p>
<p>Congratulations on your acceptance to Vanderbilt–it isa great school and my daughter is very happy there. I could be mistaken, but due to housing shortages with the demolition of Kissam, I believe that transfer students are NOT being given housing on campus for the next 2 years. I think VU housing has connections with preferred apts off campus so you may want to check those out.</p>
<p>LHSCary - I don’t think that is correct. But there is definitely going to be a shortage.</p>
<p>Yakov - You should look into this. Best of luck both my sons have really loved their time at Vandy.</p>
<p>Morgan/Lewis in the highland quad are more like apartments. They have 2 or 3 people dorms and include a kitchen and bathroom. Towers also has apartments like this called “suites,” but for 6 people. You have to sign up as a group of 6 to get one. I don’t know what the 2 person rooms are like in Towers…</p>
<p>I think transfer students kinda just get put wherever is left, because everyone else has already chosen their preferred housing and been assigned.</p>
<p>D was in a Towers double her junior year - “stuck” there due to being in study abroad for fall. It was a small room, but she & her roommate survived. They had been in Vandy-Barnard the year before, and that was a little better. To be honest, she liked her senior year off-campus condo (just across the street from campus, behind the Commons) best … but a transfer student would probably want to be on campus in order to meet more people.</p>
<p>^With that in mind, I recommend Morgan/Lewis.</p>