<p>They word stuff so weirdly. I was told by multiple sources (and at the room selection info session) that it’s if you have MORE than 3 people, you have to have a double. So if you just have 2 friends and yourself, you can block in a grouping of singles (or take the three singles in a suite), but if you bump that up to 4 people, somebody (even if it’s just one person) has to be placed in a two-bedroom room. </p>
<p>But yeah, obviously used to prevent people from taking all the singles in a hallway and probably more focused to rising sophomores (but the think the housing booklet covers all of us.)</p>
<p>As a spring transfer, we were all really angry that the in-house lottery happens in fall and not right before the general lottery, because we should have all been given the chance to stay in our houses another year (they kind of messed with us, because as spring transfers we only have one semester in our first year here, so it’s like we have to rush to find apartments and other nonsense when we literally just got here…)</p>
<p>Oh and Becker’s in-house lottery had 168 people sign up, and 100 got rooms. So that’s a pretty good ratio, considering I think Becker holds like 350 or so between the north and south building.</p>
<p>But seriously, as a rising sophomore you’ll have tons of room options across the West buildings. Sheldon Court, the building across from CTB, is also a great place from what my friends have said, and Edgemoor looks cozy (a nice mini-community of just 20 students that’s all single rooms.) Bottom line: as long as you aren’t in Schuyler House, you’re golden!</p>
<p>Well, that’s a tad contradictory lol. If the housing booklet applies to everyone except for the in-house lottery people (which I’m pretty sure it does, because there is no indication that the info is only for rising sophomores), then only blocks of 2 can select all singles. </p>
<p>My blockmate and I just want two singles in a new dorm on West…hopefully it’s still a possibility at 5:20 (we’re not too worried but maybe we should be? lol)</p>
<p>probably a useless question, but how would you say my chances are of finding 2 singles (ideally in a suite) during the second timeslot on the day for rising juniors?</p>
<p>trying to decide if i should beg a rising senior to pull me in hahaa</p>
<p>Oh damn…country, thanks for clearing my head by saying that…the booklet clearly states three or more, I kept thinking I was reading more than three.</p>
<p>EFFFF…</p>
<p>Well…I guess I can use my junior day timeslot and hope for a good result…my senior friend can just pull our last day friend in, get two singles, and I’ll just try to snag as close as possible.</p>
<p>…Or I can find two friends willing to bunk together and do a 5-person block. Ideaaaa.</p>
<p>water, i’ll pull you in if you need someone to. 5:20 on march 9 is when andy and i are doing it. plus you can tell us how to actually work the thing since neither of us went to the demo haha</p>
<p>oh wait. just realized that wouldn’t help you at all hahaha. this is stoopid.</p>
<p>I have 8 friends (including me), 5 guys and 3 girls and we all want to room with each other or as close as possible to each other. What is the best strategy?</p>
<p>According to the housing brochure, you can’t share a suite or a room with the opposite sex. You can block with them, but you have to get separate rooms that aren’t in the same suite.</p>
<p>^ I’m living in a Co Ed suite in Alice cook house. 5 guys and 1 girl (used to be 2 girls before she went abroad…)</p>
<p>Anyway your chances aren’t that good. I don’t know if the newer buildings on west save suites for you guys… the in house lottery people take most of them if not all of them. I only got a suite in alice cook cause i lived in Bolt last year so i could do in house lottery. Got a suite with #3 (technically 2 cause #2 dropped out)</p>
<p>I think the in-house lottery works differently from the general one. In-house lottery people can apparently block 3 or 4 singles and, I guess, live in co-ed suites, but that isn’t the case for the rest of us. :[</p>
<p>And although the number of rooms for juniors and seniors are limited, they don’t save particular kinds of rooms for sophomores. So it’s possible that all of the suites will be taken by the time sophs are able to choose.</p>
<p>So I have 7 friends who want to be as close to each other as possible. We have one really good timeslot (first one for rising sophomores) and one decent one (4th one for rising sophs). What should be our strategy so that we can all live together?</p>
<p>5 people in first timeslot, 2 people in second.
First timeslot:
Block 2 people in a double in a suite, 1 person in a single in that same suite, then those last 2 in the first timeslot block into 2 singles on the same hallway.</p>
<p>Second timeslot:
Take the 2 last singles in the suite (I doubt 2 other people will fill the half filled suite)</p>
<p>dean5150, about the gothics, here are some downsides:
some of them do not have laundry facilities in the buildings. Baker Tower, Boldt Hall, McFaddin Hall, and Lyon Hall DO have laundry facilities, and since Mennon is connected by hallways to Lyon it basically does as well.
you have to walk outside to get to your food: the dining hall, the pantry, and except for some of the gothics, the vending machines. I know Founders has vending machines in it, and maybe McFaddin.
there are not elevators, even though they tend to have three to five stories. this is obviously important for moving in, using the kitchens (not necessarily very nearby either), also just not getting super-tired trying to get home after a long day for Cornelling.
they are much older, and while they don’t have the original fixtures in most places, the bathrooms aren’t going to be as modern and pretty as the basically brand new ones in the houses.</p>
<p>that being said, I current reside in a gothic, and I’ll be in one next year as well thanks to the in-house lottery system. I’m a bit of a gothics enthusiast. I think it’s a unique opportunity, living in such old and interesting buildings - they have character! plus some of the rooms are pretty spacious.</p>
<p>Does anyone know what the odds of getting a single somewhere on West are? I’m a rising sophomore on a leave of absence at the moment, so I can’t apply for housing until April 1st. I’d love to get a room in one of the newer houses (assuming that’s even possible by that point), but at this point I’m just hoping to live anywhere on campus that isn’t Schuyler.</p>