<p>What are the best dorms at Uconn for freshman? Also, has anyone lived in the suites?</p>
<p>I’ll be attending in the fall, but I heard Northwest is one of the nicer ones and has one of the better dining halls. Did you fill out the housing application?</p>
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<p>Okay, I’ll give you the TL;DR version first. As a freshman, you’re pretty required to live on campus. And it’s almost guaranteed you’re going to live in a double, or possibly a quad. Suites generally aren’t available until you’re a junior or senior, or maybe a sophomore if you’re lucky. For the vast majority of people housing is random. Unless you go for an LLC, you have almost no control over where you live. If you have a choice, I’d say go for an LLC, as it’s generally the best housing option you can get.</p>
<p>The best dorm I’ve heard of freshman living in is Alumni. The rooms are quite nice, the location is okay, and you’ve got pretty good dining options. It’s often limited to learning communities, however, so if you’re just applying for a random room, you probably won’t get it. Most freshman I know in Northwest are people of the Engineering LLC. If you’re an engineering/STEM major, I’d say go for it. NW dining hall is pretty good, and you’re really close to the math/science/engineering buildings. The engineering stereotype isn’t too bad at UConn, but that LLC definitely isn’t for everyone, so just talk to a few people about it before you make your decision.</p>
<p>There’s a strong possibility that you’ll get thrown into North, especially if you’re in CLAS. Without going into too much, it’s commonly called “The Jungle” for a reason. It can be fun for some people, but overall it’s considered one of the worst dorms on campus. I don’t know too many details, but I’ve it’s loud, pretty run down, and overall just a kind of miserable place. The other dorm you can get into without an LLC is East. East isn’t bad, it’s just ridiculous far away. From everything. So if you go for East, try to plan your days around having to travel back to the dorm as little as possible. Aside from that, it’s pretty quiet, and I don’t think it’s too much of a party scene (because it’s so damn far away), so that could be your thing.</p>
<p>If you’re in honors, you’re going to be in Buckley. There’s essentially no way around it. Honestly, the first year can vary greatly. If you’re still into the high school experience, you’ll probably like it. You make a lot of honors friends, and there are a lot of honors cliques. You can meet people outside of honors, but you have to make an effort at it. It’s pretty convenient if you don’t want to leave the dorm (you have a dining hall, washer/dryer, study areas, good dl speeds, and most of your friends right there), which is generally meant to ease the transition to college. If you don’t like to have just honors friends, or if you’re really involved on campus, it kind of sucks. You’re 10-15 minutes away from everything on campus, so clubs are kind of a hassle. Frats are inconvenient to get involved with, but I guess you can still do it. Once you make it through the first year, though, you get some of the best housing on campus, so if you’re considering honors, I’d say go for it.</p>
<p>Housing is a pretty hot topic at UConn (I just selected mine earlier this week, and most people start next week), so people talk about it a lot. I can probably answer some more specific questions if you have them just because it’s a pretty competitive process once you can select your own housing. I can also link you to a housing discussion on reddit that has a lot of people with lots of housing experience.</p>
<p>Thanks Taciturntype thats really helpful!</p>
<p>@TaciturnType how likely is it that a freshman could get housing in mcmahon? I had a friend who was placed there his freshman year</p>
<p>I know some freshman who live in McMahon. I think McMahon is the multicultural dorm, so most of them are part of Euro Tech. There are a lot of exchange students that live there as well. I’m not sure about standard selection, but I get the impression that it’s mostly an LLC (living learning community) based dorm, so you might want to try and figure out which ones are there and if you’re interested in any. You might be able to get in without the LLC pull, but I’m just guessing that most if not all of the standard floors/rooms would be taken up by freshman/sophomores applying for their next year of housing.</p>
<p>Okay thank you very much!!</p>