Best Freshman Dorm

<p>Last summer (around this time), my friend and I signed up for the IT res college dorm. We were pretty much set to live there until she got accepted into the Honors College. In Jan., my friend received an email from res life saying that she could not do both honors college and live in the IT res dorm, because the classes would conflict. Because we wanted to be roomies, we both emailed res life and changed our preference from the IT res college to traditional housing. </p>

<p>To answer your hypothetical question, if you do experience a change of heart during your senior year, you can get out of living in a res college dorm. I didn’t have to change out of the IT res college dorm, but I did because I wanted a roomate that I knew. Now, if you have a change of heart after high school graduation or during the summer, I’m not so sure if you can get out of it. You would have to contact the office of Res. life.</p>

<p>so how quickly does south hall aka “the engineering dorms” become filled?</p>

<p>Since engineering is one of the most popular majors on campus, it fills up pretty quickly.</p>

<p>the thing is i can’t get my transcript until i go back to school… i’m oos so i can’t retrieve it from the system… so i have to wait 'til august 14, so i may be screwed. plus i need to get my math teacher to write a recommendation. lol this sucks.</p>

<p>Well, you can still apply online. They won’t process your application until they have your transcript, but the main point is to get your application in. They’ll understand if they have to wait for your transcript in the mail. </p>

<p>I have a question for you HoustonOilers27- LSU now requires a teacher recommendation for the 2009-2010 application? It wasn’t like that last year.</p>

<p>Teacher recs are not required for Fall 2010. I’m not even sure they would be read if submitted. Admission is right by the numbers.</p>

<p>They do read them apparently if an applicant is borderline…</p>

<p>As for the engineering dorm, I got my application in in July last year and I got a spot in the engineering dorm.</p>

<p>i doubt they fill up THAT quickly. someone implied you’re female? in that case, i believe they had openings as late as april, but don’t quote me. i believe it’s also only a quarter female.</p>

<p>if you’re looking to meet people and you’re out of state, i would imagine laville or acadian would be better. by that time, west laville should be open (east laville is open now; they’re remodeling west laville; when they finish west they’ll close east and remodel it). it’ll be more like the newly remodeled blake. i don’t know the extent of their remodeling. if they keep the same floor plan, the rooms are some of the largest on campus.</p>

<p>i’m staying in east laville now and don’t mind it at all. it’s nicer than i was expecting. send me a message in the fall and i’ll let you know how laville’s residential life is</p>

<p>anyway, i know someone who out of state and was in the engineering dorm and hated it. a disproportionate number of them are in state students with well connected parents. </p>

<p>if you are in ERC and change your mind about your major, you can stay as long as you spend your first few days on campus as SOME engineering major. most freshmen take the same classes anyway. it’s a lot easier to switch out of engineering than into it; you’ll schedule physics 2101 which engineering and chemistry majors have to take. generally, that will work in place of the other physics, though it will not count in place of the physics for physics majors. anyway, if you change majors during the fall semester, they won’t make you move out, but if you change before fall they will kick you out. if you plan on defecting in that way, watch out, because you won’t get your advisers info in the same way, not that they help that much.</p>

<p>I’m living in East Laville, too. I thought about the business residential college, but I decided I would rather be with the more diverse group of honor students.</p>