<p>I am attending cal poly slo as an ag business major in the fall, but I’m questioning where I should stay. Red bricks or santa madre?? Any help would be great!</p>
<p>I assume you mean Sierra Madre. One of my daughter’s dorm mates (male) in Yosemite is an Ag Business major and he loves it there. The rooms are larger in Sierra Madre
and Yosemite than the Red Bricks and you won’t get a triple.</p>
<p>Call Campus Housing. Their number is on the Cal Poly website. Very helpful and they assisted us choose three potential places. We put down the deposit and everything! Very happy with the service.</p>
<p>Sierra Madre is a guaranteed double, with better furniture in the rooms as well as larger room space. There are 5 towers, arranged by floor [boy, girl, boy] except for one which is the opposite. These dorms are more social and have more of a common living experience, which allows you to become very close with every resident you live with. </p>
<p>Yosemite is basically the same as Sierra Madre, with the exception that the floors are separated by wing into different genders, with a bathroom connecting the two. They are a lot more closed off and you have to go through the bathroom to get to another wing, and a key to get into a different floor. Also, the first floor lacks a common room making them slightly less social and they are farther from campus.</p>
<p>Red Bricks have triples, which are pretty cramped inside small rooms, it was worth it for me to choose SM and get a guaranteed double room. Red Bricks are separated by gender with each side of the building belonging to a different gender and a common room joining the two. There is a lot less interaction among the different floors in the red bricks, but they are also known to be quieter overall. They are also assigned mostly by major.</p>
<p>North Mountain is very less social as there is no common room whatsoever and the rooms are not connected. These are the quietest residence halls because they are so separated from one another. Typically engineers live here. </p>
<p>Cerro Vista is for fiercely independent people. It is a lot harder for these people to make friends with the apartment-style living [you get your own room] but if you’re social enough and try hard you can find friends anywhere. The bad news: Cerro is very far from anything on campus, lacks a common room connecting any of the apartments, and has a very awkward reduced meal plan.</p>
<p>@polygirl16</p>
<p>You don’t have to go through the bathroom to get to the other side. You can walk right through the lounge which divides the boys’ side from the girls’. My daughter’s tower at Yosemite is very social with one another.</p>