Hi all,
I’m currently choosing housing options for SC and the Arts & Humanities Residential College at Parkside is one of my top choices b/c of its suite style. I have a few questions to those with experience with the housing. (I’m sure these housing questions get posted a lot, but I’ve searched and haven’t seen a thread pertaining to PRB in a while).
Is PRB really as quiet socially as most people claim? I'm not really going to be totally into the whole party scene, but I would like to have a balance of both sides.
Since it is the "Arts & Humanities" Residential College, are the people in this housing mostly in those fields? I understand that there are special floors like Architecture, Performing Arts, etc. But as someone in Human Development major & premed, what I want to know is how is the diversity in terms of majors at PRB? Will I be mostly with Arts students, or will there be also STEM, business, etc. majors there?
I put Arts and Humanities as my #1 too, and I’m pre-med as well! I would also like to know the answer to this as well (so if necessary I can change my list in time )
There are a ton of engineers, business and other science types at Parkside A&H on top of humanities majors, it is a good varied crowd. My CS Engineering/Math major student lived there and loved it. AC and one of the nicest/newest housing buildings. It is as quiet as it needs to be, but it was really social for mine. Lots of great study coves in the building if you want to get out of the suite to study. Made tons of friends there that are forever friends that he is still living with. They really match room mates well at USC if you fill out the survey honestly. Diverse majors in his suite but all STEM of some type and serious students by choice, mostly high achieving Dean’s list types in his so they matched super well in his case. It is the closest to engineering building, so you get a lot of STEM kids there. Don’t be fooled by the A&H name. It is on a side of campus away from other housing, but that didn’t seem to matter. First year you are all over the place in classes anyway. No dorm is convenient to everything. Known to have best food of the dorms, from what I remember.
Parkside IRC on the other hand is very international and not social at all.
@CADREAMIN - Thank you! That helps a lot! Also, how panicked does one need to be about applying for housing NOW, instead of waiting until next week. Will the “best” dorms fill up quickly?
No sense in waiting to sign up if you know what you want. Personally my views on what the “best” dorm is seem to be different from yours, and this is also going to be the case with your fellow incoming freshmen. However, there are a few dorms that are pretty well-accepted as being bad no matter what your preferences are. You don’t want to be in those. Apply as soon as possible.
^^^Agree big time with madbean, sign up asap and get your place in the queue. Changing assignments doesn’t change anything in your order. You get you place in line and when they begin processing all housing apps, whatever you have on your list at that time is what counts. You can change it several times between now and then.
