<p>so i just realized… a room in brown, or a single in weedon: same price apparently, almost $1000 more than mccormick…woah that’s intense… some people don’t even wanna be in hereford as a 1st yr and they have to pay $1000 more, that makes no sense. the diff btwn old and new dorms is relatively small, $150 or so.</p>
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<p>False. This is why they don’t let incoming first years choose anymore. Two years ago, this stereotype would have been, for the most part, accurate. However, the current first year class was not allowed to choose between old/new to increase diversity. A lot more minority students were choosing New Dorms while more Caucasians were choosing Old Dorms.</p>
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<p>It depends on where you live and the people you’re with. New Dorms can be all of the above if the people you live with come in every weekend and puke all over your bathroom and bring all of their drunk friends over. </p>
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<p>Again, this is why incoming students are no longer allowed to choose between old and new.</p>
<p>MechWahoo, there’s a window covering. You could have just pulled it down before you went. :)</p>
<p>I hope people who are unfamiliar with housing know that “new dorms” is a relative term, as they are what, 40 years old?</p>
<p>Not all, aren’t some of them like Woody fairly new?</p>
<p>I actually heard that the “new” dorms AKA Alderman were being torn down and replaced with newer dorms in the near future (one of my teachers, UVA grad told me)</p>
<p>I’m sure that a lot of people down realize that old dorms are a bit cheaper, for many it doesn’t matter, but for me, I’ma be working full-time this summer, and part-time throughout college because my family isn’t contributing to pay for college, so I have to pay for all expenses and anywhere I can save money only benefits me</p>
<p>I’m an Echols, but I’m having some reservations about living in Maupin/Webb with all Echols people. Do you think I can opt out of living in the Echols first-year residences if I want to? but remain an Echols in everything else??</p>
<p>Echols people are like everyone else…I live there and it’s fun.</p>
<p>Echols people are like anybody else…what you’ll notice at UVA is that “smart kids” are still “cool”…not like in high school, haha. Don’t think they’re scary, they actually go pretty unnoticed…</p>
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<p>also, the third Echols dorm you’re forgetting is Watson; if you get put here, there will be non scholar students as well. Maupin and Webb though have only scholars (Rodman and Echols)</p>
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<p>Thanks…exactly the info I was looking for. </p>
<p>I don’t really always want to be known as “Echols”…would rather meet and hang with regular wahoos…but will stick it out for the first year at least. </p>
<p>I’m getting the feeling from several posts that since Echols students don’t walk around with “Echols” tatooed on their foreheads that no one really makes the distinction, correct??</p>
<p>Well if you get into a selective residential college (IRC/Brown) I imagine they’ll allow you to opt out.</p>
<p>not true, ehiunno is rodman/echols and he got into brown and they made him live in rodman housing</p>
<p>Hazel, thanks for that info. I wasn’t aware…I met an Echols student yesterday who seemed interested in applying. Do you know if housing makes that expectation clear? </p>
<p>Regardless, I’ll mention it to my colleagues.</p>
<p>i knew another echols, a girl in my year (actually, she is the 3rd yr class president!) who applied to brown, got in, and had to live in echols housing instead. it seems that they don’t make it very clear at all, minus that “echols have to live in echols housing” which would imply no residential colleges first year.</p>
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The distinction will only be made of people know about it; if you go about brandishing the fact that you’re a scholar and whatnot, then you’ll be liable to this kind of distinction you’re worried about.</p>
<p>I’m an incoming first-year, and I stayed with a third year friend of mine these last two days at UVa and she made it very clear that while she was an Echols scholar, she hasn’t in any way let that affect who she is as a person and who her friends are. I am positive that the majority of her friend’s don’t know she was an Echols scholar, nor do they really care.</p>