<p>I think I was told that there is an honors floor of some sort.</p>
<p>The honors dorm is Hughes, but you don’t have to live there. I don’t think being in Hughes protects you from tripling, though. IIRC, my daughter was informed she was assigned a double, then she was given time to find a roommate, during which process she was able to indicate she was looking for someone else assigned a double who wanted to live in Hughes. She deferred for a year so she never went through the actual room selection, so I can’t say for certain if there is room in Hughes for everyone who wants to be there.</p>
<p>My daughter is in honors and in Hughes. She was assigned a triple since she deposited on April 30. She was able to detriple once school began.</p>
<p>oh no… there can be not enough room in hughes for all the honors students? 
are we allowed to request a roommate we already know? if my friend and I go to AU we want to use a double in hughes together…</p>
<p>Yes, you can room with someone you already know, someone you became acquainted with on Facebook, someone you meet through the roommate matching questionnaire function they will offer you this spring, or someone you allow the system to choose for you randomly. If I’m not mistaken, you both need to be in the honors program to choose a room in Hughes. My impression is that everyone who wanted to live there was able to, because some of the honors program participants want to live in the livelier dorms that house most of the freshmen.</p>
<p>There was definitely enough room in Hughes. Most of the honors students in Hughes are freshman. I don’t think many stay in Hughes beyond freshman year.</p>
<p>I got the impression that Class of '15 was the first one to have Hughes as an all-honors dorm. Prior to that, honors housing was on a floor/floors in one of the larger dorms. It will be interesting to see whether the experience of having an all-honors dorm encourages the honors students to stay there or not.</p>
<p>I know they are also looking at making the honors program quite a bit smaller in the future, so perhaps all the honors students will one day fit in Hughes.</p>
<p>But it’s good to know that, at least for now, there’s room for all the honors freshmen who are interested in living there.</p>
<p>When D was a freshman (she’s now a junior) two floors on Hughes were reserved for Honors students. She saw no particular advantage to being in Honors housing–the rooms are the same (in fact, she was tripled for a while), the location can be more or less convenient depending on what classes are taken, and most students make many friends outside of the program anyway through classes (most of classes are not Honors classes) and various activities. I never saw the point of AU’s Honors housing, actually. If the assumption is that there’s some rarefied intellectual atmosphere that permeates the dorm–there’s not.</p>
<p>Cautionary anecdote. Do read fine print of your offer. My D at another school was given a small merit schol that had every look/feel of four years. Much to our surprise in paying tuition for year 2 “poof” it was gone. We went to the major college (where the schol was from) and appealed, because the schol was offered in a personal phone call to us (which I was on) and there was no indication of one year only. On one of four different pieces of paper there was an indication of “freshman year”. We actually received that after my D accepted, and we also missed reading that disclaimer. So shame on us. The school ultimately said that they would honor it during my D’s Junior year, but she’d have to re apply for sr year. Thus our believe is that we’ll get two of the four years of money. Avoid our mistake! Read and ask questions.</p>
<p>The way I understand it, Hughes currently has Honors freshmen on floors 5-7, Honors upperclassmen on floors 3 & 4, and non-Honors freshmen on floor 2 (with possibly some Honors freshmen mixed in). From what I’ve heard, there wasn’t enough space for non-honors freshmen this year, so some were temporarily housed in floor lounges in Letts and others were assigned to 2nd floor of Hughes for the whole school year, even though Hughes is supposed to be only for Honors students.</p>
<p>Although, as stated above, there’s not necessarily a “rarefied intellectual atmosphere” in Honors housing, I do get the impression (from reading AU Public Safety logs) that there are much fewer alcohol & drug issues in Hughes as compared to other freshman residence halls (Letts, Anderson). At Eagle Summit, we were told that it’s a myth that north side dorms have less problems than south side dorms, but I still believe that it’s a reality.</p>
<p>If you have merit and financial aid packages from other schools I think you can use them to try and get AU to increase theirs</p>