<p>i know where some of the majors are assigned from last year and for my major it would be particularly nice if it was the same year to year because i would be in one of the few air conditioned dorms with their own bathroom</p>
<p>wow i completely messed up writing the title. this is a tad embarrassing… hahah</p>
<p>I don’t think they group freshmen by major. And I am confused what you’re talking about “with their own bathroom”.</p>
<p>I think what cjohn is probably referring to are the rooms on the laird campus. it is my understanding that they are suites with two bedrooms and either one or two private bathrooms in each suite as compared with the traditional dorms where the bathrooms are communal and down the hall</p>
<p>as far as putting similar majors in the same dorm, it is my understanding that sometimes they do because if the FYE (freshman year experience) but I dont think that is always the case. Also, my understanding is that they do move freshman around from year to year based on many different factors. Even the onors housing, although in the same part of the campus was moved from harrington (last year) to russell (this year). Sorry so vague but I dont think there is anything definitive on this. I get the impression that it is sort of random in part and based on your FYE in part.</p>
<p>There is some grouping by major. (At least there was in fall '08 when my daughter was a freshman.) I thought the intent was to house you with other people in your FYE. My daughter was in Ray St, and all the freshmen there seemed to be Art or Leadership majors.
But I know that this year, there are only upperclassmen in Ray St so I’d say that you couldn’t count on being in the same dorm next year that the freshmen in your major are in this year.
I believe that George Read has been all freshmen for the past two years though. That dorm has the suite setup.</p>
<p>yeah i was talking about the rooms in george read. its 2 rooms connected by a bathroom. each room has 2 people it each but 4 (2 from both rooms) share the bathroom. and what i meant by grouping by major is how they group the FYE.</p>
<p>I know there was some grouping in my daughter’s dorm (Smyth) this year according to FYE, but it wasn’t complete. Smyth this year was a freshman dorm, prior to then it had been upper class so I think they switch it up every year. My daughter was initially concerned about the lack of AC in her dorm, but she said it really was not ever an issue - and she is high maintenance and has had AC all her life!</p>