<p>On the housing application, it asks for choices of common courses. If my daughter wants to live in the Honors Dorm, should she just leave these blank? According to the info on the housing website, it says housing assignments are made in the following order: according to their associated learning community, common course selection, and then general learning community assignment. She wants the Honors Dorm and it is her #1 choice. Common Course participants are assigned to either Columbia, East Quad, McBryde, Patterson, or West (Green) Quad, according to the housing website. So I guess she should not select to do common courses then? Sorry but I find this all quite confusing. Between registering for Associated learning communities, then common courses, it sounds like what you register for may affect your first choice in housing. She really didn't care about the common courses, just selected some because it was there. If participating in them will affect her Honors Dorm assignment, we will change the housing form before the deadline. I hope this makes sense....appreciate any clarification.</p>
<p>I would ask housing directly. If you want something on writing, then you can write to them on their Facebook account. (<a href=“https://www.facebook.com/UofSCHousing[/url]”>https://www.facebook.com/UofSCHousing</a>)</p>
<p>Common courses were a brand new thing when I was a freshman and I purposefully didn’t choose them because I wanted to live in Maxcy. I got Maxcy. Since your daughter is in the honors college, then I’d imagine if she left it blank she’d end up in the honors college dorms. But I’d definitely call and check with housing to get some clarification.</p>
<p>OP - when in honors you’re kind of doing this by default. Common courses allow you to take Univ 101 and another core class with people in your dorm “neighborhood”. This helps you to get to know people. Many honors don’t take Univ 101 and if you do, there are honors specific sections (may meet in honors residence already since some SCHC classes do) and other core classes, such as engl 101, can be taken as honors…so same result. Agree that you can check to be sure with housing or honors.</p>