<p>I got accepted to New Brunswick school of Arts and Sciences.</p>
<p>I'm still waiting to hear back from other schools before I accept the admission. I was just wondering, when do freshman usually apply for housing? and also what are the best dorms on campus?</p>
<p>thanks in advance :)</p>
<p>The link for housing should be available by the end of the month for accepted students. Make sure you apply before early April to get your first choice.</p>
<p>You can’t choose individual dorms (there are exceptions if you are in the honors program or applying for a special-interest house). When you fill out the application for your housing choices, they ask you to rank your campus of preference. </p>
<p>Anyway, “best campus” is usually subjective, but freshmen tend to prefer College Avenue and Busch campus. I like both campuses since I’ve dorm on both. College Avenue is convenient in the sense that it is close to downtown New Brunswick and busy.</p>
<p>Congrats on being accepted!</p>
<p>I heard that College Ave has a better social setting and Busch has better dorms…since you’ve lived on both campuses, which did you prefer?</p>
<p>I’m not all about partying, but I would like to have an option of going to a couple of parties on weekends if I wanted to. Then again, I don’t want to live somewhere too distracting where I can’t focus on my schoolwork.</p>
<p>It sounds like you’d like Busch more. If you want to go parties, there are always weekend buses. I know College Ave is way more distracting and loud than Busch, though, so it’d be harder to do work in that environment. (Of course, there are always libraries, but it’s nice not to have to leave your dorm if you don’t want to.)</p>
<p>I also need some help on deciding which campus should I live on as well for my freshman year. For College Avenue, I am looking for somewhere close to the river or preferably the train station so I can hear the train horn every morning. For Busch as a prospective engineering student, I’m afraid that Busch is too boring in terms of everyone focusing specifically in their majors and nothing else. I also looked forward to founding a rock band, which further increases my thoughts as to which campus I should live on. Based on my scenario, which campus and specific dorm should I live in?</p>
<p>Unfortunately, you can’t choose specific dorms (unless you want to live in special interest housing at Demarest Hall)</p>
<p>Often you won’t be able to hear the train horn (unless you live in the Easton Ave apartments, which you can’t live in until your third year). Just know that no matter which dorm you are placed in on College Avenue, you are always less than a 10-minute walk from the station.</p>
<p>Busch isn’t boring. Of course it lacks the commercial district like College Avenue has with Easton Ave and George Street, but it isn’t socially horrible. It looks like you really have your eye on College Avenue though. I think that’s a good choice. You are always a bus ride away from Busch.</p>
<p>Does anyone know the setup of the suites on Busch? The website says 6 people live in a suite & share 1 bathroom. Is it 3 doubles with a bathroom? I can’t find a layout on the housing website.</p>
<p>Check Demarest Dorm on College Ave, also close to the train station. There is a great variety of students, many which play instruments. They run their own “Coffee House” events where the students run monthly musical entertainment.</p>
<p>Busch is quieter, but it is by no means boring; I can assure you. Whatever you want to do, you’ll be able to do if you can manage your time and buses are really okay. (For engineering, though, living on Cook/Douglass is just really time-consuming because busing from there to Busch takes awhile. College Ave is fine.)</p>
<p>where is the link to sign up for dorms again?</p>
<p>Did you check your enrollment pathway? They should have a link available for housing/dining.</p>
<p>MushaboomBlue: I haven’t accepted my admission yet because I’m waiting to hear from another school at the end of the month. I’ve decided on College Ave, but since it’s really popular and the spots fill up quickly do you think that it would be too late to apply for housing there in April?</p>
<p>It might not be too late. But have a backup campus just in case though. April is usually when a bulk of the accepted students sign up for housing because of the open house event and most have confirmed their attendance.</p>
<p>Thank you :]</p>