<p>If I am going into the CFA, I have these as my choices:</p>
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<li>Warren 2. West. 3. Towers…</li>
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<p>I don’t know what to put for 4 or 5. And also, are these good choices for my first 3?</p>
<p>I’m in CFA (junior) and my freshman year my choices were something like 1. West (Rich CFA floor), 2. 1019, 3. Warren, 4. Towers, 5. Hojo. I mostly based it on proximity to CFA because music majors have 8am classes freshman and sophomore year and the fact that there were CFA floors really interested me. I ended up getting Claflin CFA floor with a painting major whose birthday was exactly (1 year and a day after mine) which I was happy with. We are still BEST friends!</p>
<p>That said there are people who didn’t want to live in West, or wanted to get to know more people outside of CFA, so it’s not a big deal if you don’t live there as a freshman.</p>
<p>lol BU doesn’t do a personality quiz on the housing survey–it just basically asks you to rate your choices of where you want to live.</p>
<p>I know it doesn’t do it on the housing survey, I was wondering if there was something else since I know some other colleges do that…</p>
<p>They don’t. Surprisingly, or maybe not so surprisingly, BU actually has more success with their roommate match up system than the ones with the elaborate quizzes. </p>
<p>If you do have a specific concern though, there should be a box at the end for comments or issues. Ie…you have a health issue that means you can’t live with a smoker, you require a handicapped room, etc etc.</p>
<p>There is a “Roommate Success Kit” for you to fill out when you do get to BU. This is an opportunity for you and your roommate to lay out some ground rules and find out about each other’s preferences before any conflicts might start. I think, and AliAngel might be able to help me here…that it’s required for all freshmen?</p>
<p>it’s not required for freshmen, but your ra will talk to you about it at the first meeting and strongly recommend it, and maybe check up with u a couple weeks later to see if you laid out some ground rules. however, i HIGHLY recommend it, because the roommate conflicts i have had are ones with residents that didn’t do the success kit. funny enough, also, if you have a friend going to bu, i STRONGLY recommend NOT living with them. good/best friends that have never lived together and then try it out usually end up no longer being friends. it happened to me sophomore year and to another friend jr year who stopped speaking to her best friend since age 12.</p>
<p>omg! my BEST friend and i were thinking of going to BU together or UCONN/Syracuse as our second choice and to dorm together. damm weve been friends sicne 6th grade and i dont wanna ruin it lol</p>
<p>ha yeah…it doesn’t happen in allll situations but the smallest conflict can turn into something huge with friends. like instead of…you never turn out the lights when you come home late! it becomes…you never turn out the lights when you come late and you flirted with my boyfriend in 8th grade and you invited Hannah on vacation instead of me 3 years ago etc etc. There’s just a bit more ammo haha. When all of a sudden you’re spending every waking moment together instead of just evenings or classes or whatever, it can become a whole new situation.</p>
<p>I signed up for summer swap. Has anyone done this? (Assigned Towers, looking for BSR Brownstone). Is it easy to get your first choice?</p>
<p>summer swap tends to work out a lot of the time (of course, not always). i just found out that if you had a bad lottery number and you do summer swap it reverses and u go to the top of the list. but if they offer you something and u turn that down, u go right back to the bottom. so make the right choice!</p>
<p>Kevster, I signed up for summer swap last year. I was assigned to Towers too and got a Bay State brownstone.</p>
<p>oh sweet! yeah my number’s like 16500 so I heard I have good chances for summer swap. I hope I get one of those renovated BSR brownstones. I have a friend who lives in 159 BSR and was recently renovated. It’s unbelievably amazing.</p>
<p>do you think it’s good to live in Specialty Residences?</p>
<p>i feel like its the same as any other residence, really. if youre a freshman i would tell u to live on a specialty floor in a dorm instead of a brownstone</p>
<p>i mean i will put warren as my first choice
but shud i also choose to live in a specialty floor as well? (cox u said it feels like the same)</p>
<p>Specialty floor or not, it all feels the same. And by the way, I know friends who live in specialty floors who never signed up for them.</p>
<p>I went to the open-house today and saw Towers, and it’s so small! I guess I sorta knew that it wouldn’t be amazing or anything, but it just seemed really claustrophobic. Also, I ddin’t like the fact that there wasn’t any carpeting in the rooms. Anyway, I’m now leaning towards Shelton, but what are the odds that I will get Shelton if I select it as my first choice? Also, any experiences with freshman living at Shelton?</p>
<p>east tower has carpeting, west tower (for the time being) does not. shelton definitely isn’t the worst pick for freshman since it has a dining hall and is central on campus, but it is not a social environment and is really quiet and mostly upperclassmen reside there. hahah if you thought the towers rooms were small, wait til you see warren and west :-). the primarily freshman dorms have small rooms, hojo’s are bigger but they’re triples, shelton is suites. i would choose a social dorm for your freshman year; you’ll spend so little time in your room (except for sleeping) since you’ll be socializing in the common areas and around campus, so you really won’t be paying much attention to it.</p>
<p>Haha, a “Roommate Success Kit” sounds cute…thanks for the info! :)</p>
<p>Shelton is where Eugene O’Neill died, room 401, whichever that is. It was then a Sheraton.</p>