<p>I was notified I am being offered a co-op contract for Cloyne. But they didn't inform me what type of room (double, triple, single) I would get. I emailed them today, so I don't expect an official answer yet. But did this happen to anyone else?</p>
<p>By the way, how is Cloyne? Is is relatively noisy? How cramped are the rooms? How is the food (I heard some residents didn't even want to eat the food because it is unlimited)?</p>
<p>Has anyone crunched the numbers? How much would a typical apartment cost compared to the dorms? How much privacy would one get in the co-ops?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I emailed them just to find out what my status was. I'm on the waitlist for all the houses I applied for. It's understandable since I chose mostly small houses on Northside. </p>
<p>I believe that you pick your room at the beginning of the semester. They go in an order and let the people who have seniority pick first. Usually, new members get doubles or triples, and never singles.</p>
<p>Was everyone supposed to get an email already? Because I haven't yet, and it's making me nervous.</p>
<p>I would email housing. I'm thinking that the people who were waitlisted didn't receive any notification, because I didn't get anything without having to inquire about it.</p>
<p>The room you get is not chosen until the semester starts. There is a complicated two-tier seniority-based bidding process by which you and other students select which room to live in.</p>
<p>Price-wise, the co-ops are quite a bit cheaper (maybe by 50%) than the dorms. If you were frugal with apartments and food you could probably pay about the same price as in the co-ops over 9 months: $500/mo rent + utilities, $150/mo food. </p>
<p>If you stayed in Berkeley for the summers and watched your spending, apartments could be marginally cheaper than co-ops.</p>