<p>I haven’t seen the campus yet, but I was wondering if you guys could help me out by letting me know what you think the best freshmen dorm is. The housing application is coming out soon and I’m kind of freaking out because I don’t know what to choose!!</p>
<p>[University</a> Housing - Cal Poly](<a href=“http://www.housing.calpoly.edu/]University”>http://www.housing.calpoly.edu/)</p>
<p>check out that link</p>
<p>and also if you go on **************.com they have reviews on everything! which includes housing</p>
<p>I’m assuming that website was college *******? I’ve been there, but I still can’t get an idea of what dorm I want. Does anyone go there or have kids that go there that would have opinions on what the best dorm is?</p>
<p>Haha yeah i guess CC doesnt like that word…Well how far do you live? Because a tour would def be worth doing, and there’s an Open House on april 15.
Also, just fyi my tour guide said he stayed in Yosemite as a freshman and loved it. Yosemite and Sierra Madre are very similar, towers with 60-100 people in each tower. Doubles.
The halls that are separated by major are also popular if you want to have similar workloads and schedules with your roommate and stuff.
The Cerro Vista apartments are nice if you are a more personal person, like don’t want a roommate, but I also hear it’s a little bit harder to make lots of new friends.</p>
<p>I only live about 3 hours away, but they only do tours on weekdays so I have to figure out if I can miss a day of school. Even though it would be nice to live in Cerro Vista, I definitely want the dorm experience. I’m also not really big on the communal bathrooms because I think they’re disgusting. I read somewhere that in one of the dorms you only share bathrooms with like 8 people and another with 12 people. I think I’m gonna go to the open house in April, but I need to decide on a dorm before March 3rd because that’s when the housing applications come out.</p>
<p>I hope that some of the current students and parents will join in this thread to help you out. Be sure to look at past threads because this is a popular topic.</p>
<p>Here is my opinion of my son’s experience. he is currently a freshman majoring in engineering. He lives in Cerro Vista and loves it, but there are some drawbacks.</p>
<p>As I see it, he loves that he has his own room and shares a bathroom with one other person and the whole apartment with 3 guys. they have a kitchen and a living room. He loves having his own room where he can sleep well and study in his own space. He has stayed healthier and is able to have more of his personal belongings available. (he plays guitar and has 2 of them plus and amp). They have a cool way to project movies in his living room and a full size fridge for food, plus and awesome pantry for lots of food and other necessities. The food at CP is not the best and so he likes being able to cook for himself (even though he isn’t a big eater or a gourmet cook). </p>
<p>He likes how clean the Cerro apartments are and he seems to do fine with the location of the complex. his apartment is a bit isolated because it is at the end of a hallway, so he has become very close with the girls across the hall. It would have been better to be in the middle of a floor, but it seems to work fine for him.</p>
<p>I would say the only drawback is that the students in the more traditional dorms do make more friends and it is more lively. That is important for a lot of students. My son is making friends in his classes and where he lives, so he feels that it is a good place for him. He has a tough major and schedule, so being able to study in his own room helps him a lot. </p>
<p>I would suggest going to Open House for sure and even taking a day off from school to visit. We live 3 hours away and we drove down there several times to see the campus. It is really worth it. You need to vist the campus to decide where you want to spend the next 4-5 years of your life. My son loves it there and we are very happy with his choice. </p>
<p>Hope this helped!</p>
<p>If you live in the North Mountain dorms, you only share a bathroom with about 8 other people. Also, those rooms are bigger than the ones in the red brick dorms (the dorms separated by major), so even if they end up turning your room into a triple because they ran out of space, it won’t be too bad. You also still get to experience some of the more “traditional” dorm stuff because you get to use one of the red brick dorm’s common area since the north mountain dorms do not have a common area. They have outdoor entrances too, which reminds me a lot of people of hotels. But even though the set up is a bit different, they still seem quite social. I personally would not recommend cerro vista unless you are very outgoing. I lived there my freshman year and while the set up was great (not having to share a bathroom, having your own kitchen, more privacy, etc.), I found it difficult to meet people. But I guess it just depends.</p>
<p>My daughter is a freshmen living in Yosemite Hall–Tower 0 and LOVES it! The kids in her tower have really become her family. Boys and girls live on the same floor with a small lounge and two restrooms dividing the two. Since there are only around 24 kids on each floor, it’s easy to become close to your dormmates. There are 3 floors. She enjoys having guys on the same floor—they’re like her protective brothers. I met many of them when I visited for Parents’ Weekend and I thought they were a great bunch of kids.</p>
<p>The layout is different from the longer halls you see in the Red Bricks. It’s a bit further from the center of campus, but not really all that far. Tower 0 also happens to be the closest to the street and to Sierra Madre which is a bit closer to campus. There’s also an eatery between the two halls called VG’s (Vista Grande).</p>
<p>Oh, and the rooms are larger than the Red Bricks. And, there are **no **triples. Her and her roommate’s room is at the end of the short hall which is a slightly different configuration than the ones on the sides, but it’s still the same sq. footage. It just seems larger. Her bed is in front of a large window. Nice size closets, too! Oh, and the bathroom situtation has been surprisingly fine. Not everyone has classes at the same time in the morning, so they aren’t all in there vying for the shower at once. Or they sometimes take one the night before if they have an early class. It’s working out just great!</p>
<p>I would gladly live in her dorm if I were going back to school! :)</p>
<p>Ok so right now it’s between Sierra Madre and Yosemite for me. The only difference between them is that Yosemite has coed floors? And do you share a bathroom with more people in Sierra Madre than you would in Yosemite…or are they the same amount?</p>
<p>Here is some information about both halls:</p>
<p>[Yosemite</a> Hall - University Housing - Cal Poly](<a href=“http://yosemite.calpoly.edu/]Yosemite”>http://yosemite.calpoly.edu/)</p>
<p>[Sierra</a> Madre Hall - University Housing - Cal Poly](<a href=“http://sierramadre.calpoly.edu/]Sierra”>http://sierramadre.calpoly.edu/)</p>
<p>My daughter’s bathroom in Yosemite is shared by 6 girls on each side (12). Same for the guys on the other side. But, it’s spacious and so far there haven’t been any issues since not everyone is on the same schedule.</p>