<p>My D and I will be visiting for Freshman Day this Friday. Anyone else with an artistic or theatrical bent that might want to join forces? Our last tour we had to find the new Art/Theater/Music building ourselves. Hopefully there's someone to talk with this time.</p>
<p>good luck, proud dad! i remember talkng to you before! go get what you need from them, and don't leave without it! go to an official, if need and ask for help with an arts/theater professor, or student! IT DOES EXIST THERE!</p>
<p>Proud Dad: Hope that you and your D have a good visit. My D is a prospective Intl. Studies major and we'll be checking out the "A Day In the Life" program for SIS next week. I've never been inside the Katzen Center, but I hope I'll have the opportunity to while I'm there.:)</p>
<p>Who needs a football team when you have the exciting competition and intense rivalry of Patriot League Basketball and Swimming?</p>
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<p>I would advise you to check out our facilities. We have one indoor basketball court for the whole campus and many times you have to wait over 20 minutes for cardio machines and the weight room is pretty small. I mean, everything is still possible here if you just want to stay in shape but I would never recommend this place for an athlete. School support on team activity in general is pretty low. </p>
<p>We don't really have a stadium, just an astroturf soccer field and an outdoor track. The reason the field is astro turf is because people developed rashes while playing on the real grass field years ago which they found out to be from chemical weapons residue during world war I. I don't lie! To AU's defense it looks like they have been trying to clean it up.</p>
<p>If one doesn't like the gym, which is easy to do, AU is in an area of DC which is very pretty. I always run in the neighborhood behind the seminary, and it is very pretty back there. So if one is disappointed in the wait for cardio machines, you could just go run outside like I do. Of course, you are paying for gym membership, so the gym should be improved.</p>
<p>does anyone have the a percentage of how many people have gone to graduate school (medical school preferably)</p>
<p>and the best dorms?</p>
<p>dorms are about your personality. check the website, or call the school for the stats.</p>
<p>Just a note on the housing application: my gf asked for an all-girls dorm hall (parents are religious) and she got put on a regular coed floor. Most girls on the all-girls dorm hall requested a regular coed hall. My roomate asked for a triple room to save money, but is in a double with me. Most triples requested double rooms. Almost everyone I know on Northside requested southside dorms. I doubt housing and dining looks at what you write.</p>
<p>You will have the best chance to get what you ask for in terms of housing if you put a roommate on the form.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if this statistic is still accurate, but 86% of qualified students are accepted to medical school. I think that qualified means a 3.4 GPA and a combined MCAT of 24/40, as minimums. For more info, there is a premed website at AU with details and contact info so you can get accurate info. The premed faculty advisor is your best bet for good info.</p>
<p>connies, if you don't mind, since md already weighed in on the housing assignment issue, can you share your take on it? Specifically, to what degree do students that you know, particularly Freshmen, get assigned to the type of housing (Northside vs. Southside, etc)that they were seeking on their housing forms?(i.e., how attentive does Housing seem to be to the preferences that students choose on their forms) Thanks.</p>
<p>I'm currently a freshman at AU, and from what I believe they put you where you requested based on how quickly you turn your housing forms in. Most of the people I know ended up where they wanted to be, contrary to what I'm reading on this thread. I've met very few people who hate where they live on campus and if they did, housing and dining CAN be accommodating if you really harass them (or if parents do, because they hold the checkbook). Regardless, I'd say the sooner you turn in the form the more likely it will be that you are in the dorm you requested.</p>
<p>Thanks for the response, tkm-I appreciate it. Hopefully sending in a deposit around the middle of April(assuming that she decides to attend AU) will be sufficiently early enough for her to at least get assigned to one of her top three residence hall choices.</p>
<p>I applied for housing right after Freshman day last year and did not get one of my top dorm preferences. Like I said earlier, if you apply for housing ridiculously early or with someone specifically you have a better chance at getting the dorms with higher demand(Letts, Anderson, Hughes).</p>
<p>Okay, well, that may not necessarily be bad news, since I don't think she's interested in either Letts or Anderson. Thanks.</p>
<p>Leonard is really not a bad place to live --- people are just very cliqueish(sp?) in Leonard and are a bit socially awkward. The dorm is also 8 floors of one hallway so I don't believe its quite as communal. </p>
<p>Mcdowell has mold issues as well as bugs on some floors --- I haven't heard great things. Hughes is a very nice dorm but my experience is limited to the honors floors, which again, has its share of socially awkward students. Its also the dorm where most of the handicapped people live and I think it has the best facilities. </p>
<p>Anderson and Letts are the traditional freshman party dorms. Very fun to live in early in the year but you will also be subject to more drug use, alcoholism, noise, and trashy behavior. I don't think this is necessarily unusual or a problem in college but yeah its definitely not for everyone and is very annoying at times. </p>
<p>My top two recommendations for Freshman are Hughes and Letts. I think these dorms offer the best overall experience but both are very different from each other.</p>
<p>Keep it positive, everyone. This isn't about attacking other posters. It's about AU issues.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>momonthehill~ sorry i'm coming in a little late for your answer, but as others have said, EARLY is the thing. get your deposit in ASAP. i got a double where i wanted and feel fortunate. however some of my friends seemed to put in early(ish) and had temporary triples. but that ended into the semester. i think housing definitely tries to place kids according to their forms, but it's a tough thing to do perfectly. the worst case scenario is a triple for a while, but yes, most kids were generally satisfied...some even had fun with stacked beds in a triple!</p>
<p>Thanks connies.</p>