<p>@challenger I am just curious which dorm your daughter chose and if she is happy? I am an IU grad and my daughter wants to go to IU as a freshman next fall. When I was there, I lived in McNutt and it was a major party area. My daughter is not into that at all so I am thinking that the honors floors at Forrest might be best for her. Maybe even Collins? What is the environment at Collins these days? When I was there, it was pretty bohemian.</p>
<p>I have a daughter who chose to live in Central/Academic dorm rather than live in the Kelley LLC. She keeps telling me how crazy McNutt is… and that a lot of the Kelley kids are pretty unhappy about it. She has had lots of opportunities to meet Kelley students.</p>
<p>My daughter is currently in the Kelley LLC and her RA is responsive to everyone being loud at quiet hours…but it is still not as quiet as she would like it to be. She likes to study on her own in the library…BUT loves all of the opportunities the Kelley LLC has to offer! They shouldn’t be over looked.</p>
<p>My Son was initially quite disappointed when turned down for KLLC (they apparently balance OOS with Indiana). Now he is very thankful he is not in McNutt due to lots of crazy noise stories coming from kids he knows from KLLC, Academic and other floors their.</p>
<p>He is elated to be in Ashton as a Residence Scholar, has made a ton of friends, and is already part of dorm government there. Ashton is old, but everyone gets a single room with their own window AC. The kids all leave their doors open on his floor, so it is surprisingly social. Since they all are also Residence Scholars doing a small chore for the benefit of greatly reduced tuition, the dorm is kept up nicely. Peer pressure is a wonderful thing.</p>
<p>Perhaps most importantly, unlike an all freshman dorm like McNutt-KLLC, Asthon has a very good mix of upperclassmen and freshmen on each floor. My son has gained lots of great information already from being dorm mates with upperclassmen from both Kelley and other schools at IU. His first week in the dorm a Kelley Junior walked in his room, spotted a book on his shelf (told him it wouldn’t be used), and proceeded to brief him on that class and what to expect. Couldn’t ask for more.</p>