<p>Oh he definitely chose RISE as his first choice, it looks like a wonderful program. He wants to live wherever the community is. I guess what I meant was that early applicants won’t necessarily choose Clemson House or McCabe as their first choice if they want to be in a living learning community, so that may free up spaces for later applicants, like October, or am I incorrect?</p>
<p>Oh ok, I probably misinterpreted what you were trying to say. That’s correct since housing requests are based on your application date to Clemson.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies. D selected the Bryan mall dorms as her top preference.
Those should be available, it seems, with a late October priority ranking.</p>
<p>Since its related I’ll ask here.</p>
<p>Anyone know when we find out our roommates if we did random?</p>
<p>Hi tigerin13 - Housing assignments, including roommate info, will be emailed out in July.</p>
<p>yep, you’ll know around mid-July</p>
<p>Darn that’s late. Oh well, thanks!</p>
<p>I got accepted to live in Benet next year. I’m becoming reluctant though and don’t think I’ll have as good of a time. I like to focus on academics during the week, but like to party on the weekends. Can anyone comment on the social life/party scene in Benet?</p>
<p>How did you find out that you will be in Benet? I thought notifications weren’t sent out until July. Thank you.</p>
<p>DGianna…My S just finished freshman year at Benet. He was worried about the same thing but found there was plenty of time to party. He has friends from Benet and many other dorms and joined a frat as well. He had many opportunities to get out while at the same time being able to get his work done. I pushed him toward the CBE and Benet but he now says he would do it all over. He feels he got a good start in his business major while still having a full social life.</p>
<p>Normal housing notices will come out in mid-July. However, sometimes the living learning communities make their selections earlier and choose to notify people in the program earlier (if they’re in Benet, they’re probably in CBE)</p>
<p>Okay thank you!</p>
<p>Just so y’all know, the chances of getting put in Clemson House are low. There were 3500 freshmen this past year and Clemson House holds about 400. Everyone wants to live there, and why wouldn’t you? It costs just as much as the other freshman dorms except you have your own bathroom, space for a couch, loftable beds that you don’t have to pay extra for, and possibly a small kitchen. My boyfriend lived there and I lived in Lever, so I was very jealous. He also applied in the first week of August and I applied in late September. Between the Horseshoe (Bryan Mall) and the Shoeboxes, I’d say that the rooms in the Horseshoe are slightly bigger and carpeted while the Shoeboxes have slightly bigger closets, loftable beds, and sinks. The only one you need to worry about is Johnstone, but every renovation plan involves demolishing it.</p>
<p>Also, I’m pretty sure McCabe is mostly an LLC for ROTC. Some freshmen do get in there though.</p>
<p>I got my roommate in July, but I don’t think they pay much attention to what you say on the survey besides whether you’re okay with living with someone who smokes because the only thing she and I had in common was that we don’t smoke, and we ended up not rooming together second semester. I think I would have been better off finding a roommate on the Facebook groups. Since some people graduate in December, some space can open up in the Greek housing in December, and some freshmen can move there for second semester. That’s how I got a room to myself second semester.</p>
<p>If you get put in overflow housing, that either means you live with an RA, you’re a third wheel in a 2 person room, or you and your roommate are basically in a closet. The people who live with the RAs are the first to get moved to another room. My friend lived with an RA and got moved to a closet. Some people move out of the closets if there’s space but some people choose to stay there if they like their roommates.</p>
<p>If you do decide you can’t live with your roommate, the one who has the problem moves, not the one causing the problem. If two roommates do fine together but don’t want to live with the third roommate, the two roommates have to find somewhere else, not the third one.</p>
<p>Hope this helps!</p>
<p>^bunch of good comments/advice there</p>
<p>McCabe is all freshman this year minus the Air Force LLC (guess they are trying to put fewer freshman in overflow housing if at all possible). </p>
<p>Facebook can be a good way to find a roommate (talk to some people on there and get a feel for what they are - not foolproof though since it’s the internet and well you don’t know what someone is really like). There are some groups that are trying to help people find roommates:</p>
<p>Girls - <a href=“https://www.facebook.com/groups/439678096102789/[/url]”>https://www.facebook.com/groups/439678096102789/</a>
Guys - <a href=“https://www.facebook.com/groups/354876617951218/[/url]”>https://www.facebook.com/groups/354876617951218/</a></p>
<p>If you opt to go via the random survey, definitely try and take that seriously if you can. Overall, unless you’re friends with the person, there’s no way you can guarantee that you will get the perfect roommate. Oh well, I guess that’s part of the college experience - learning to live with people you don’t know and how to get along.</p>
<p>Well at this point its too late to find any anyways!</p>
<p>I think you can still request someone but you might get bumped to the end of the housing priority list. (depends how much you care about possibly being put in overflow housing vs having a bad roommate)</p>
<p>Ah that would make sense. I’d gamble on random and hope it works out. You can always switch if the roommate ends up being bad.</p>
<p>I put shoe boxes as my #1 priority because I’m closer to the Chem and Engineering buildings than clemson house and I’m in walking distance of the stadium. What’s not to love?</p>
<p>DGianna, my son just finished his freshman year and lived in Benet and participated in the Business Living Experience. He enjoyed the program and having students around who were in many of the same classes was a plus. His mom and I strongly recommended that he do this. He had a good first year, but to be perfectly frank with you, he felt that he missed out by not being in the tower freshman dorms where most of his friends were. Good luck with your decision.</p>
<p>^Guess thats one experience. The number of students in the High Rises is about equal to the number of students in the Shoeboxes/Holmes/McCabe so people are spread out pretty evenly around campus.</p>