<p>Hello, I am a transfer student. (Class of 2016) and I am coming from Florida. I wanted to know more about the dorms. I am considering CIW or Hinman as of now but I wanted to know more about learning communities and what percentage of students are freshman and the social life and the study life and location of the dorms. Thanks!</p>
<p>Hi! My name is Rob and I’m a Binghamton University Student Ambassador.</p>
<p>Most of the information (if not all) can be found on our Residential Life website. You can click on the individual links for each residential community to find out about their traditions, the feel of the community, its history, the style of dorms that are there, the floor plans, and more.</p>
<p>[Binghamton</a> University - Residential Life](<a href=“http://reslife.binghamton.edu/]Binghamton”>http://reslife.binghamton.edu/)</p>
<p>All of our residential communities are located around the outside of our campus. The main road that circles around the campus, which we call “the Brain” because of its shape, encircles all of the academic buildings in the middle. Around the outside of that circle are all of our residential communities. They’re all roughly an equal distance from the academic buildings because of this.</p>
<p>Let me know if you have any questions after reading through the Residential Life website!</p>
<p>Sincerely,
Rob Clark</p>
<p>Rob, do you know if there will be triples again in 2013 for freshman like in past years? We heard through others that in fact more freshmen would be placed in triples next year. Is that accurate? If there will be triples, about how many freshmen would be affected? Thanks for all your help.</p>
<p>Peppersmom: Over the past two years, we’ve had more freshmen than we anticipated accept our offers of enrollment. Due to this, there have been some freshman placed in temporary triples. These students are typically given the option to detriple within a month as space opens up within our residential communities. Sometimes students in this situation even receive this option before they get to campus or before classes start, as our Residential Life staff work very hard to detriple students as quickly as possible. All students placed in temporary triples will receive a discount on their housing costs prorated for the amount of time they live in the temporary triple.</p>
<p>We do not currently have any information regarding how many students, if any, will be subject to temporary triples this year. Any information floating around about more students being placed in temporary triples is inaccurate, as there’s no way to tell how many students will be placed in forced triples until housing sign-ups are completed. We don’t even know yet what percentage of students that were offered enrollment at Binghamton will accept, as the deadline for deposits isn’t for several weeks, so there’s no way that any accurate estimate of forced tripling could be available yet.</p>
<p>This fall we will be opening New Dickinson, our newest residential community, and closing Old Dickinson, which is our oldest residential community on campus currently. This will provide a net gain of rooms and beds, so we will have more space available for our incoming freshman and remaining students than ever before. While temporary triples are still a possibility, there will almost certainly be less tripling than we have had the past two years due to the added dorms. We are unsure at this time if there will be any temporary triples at all.</p>
<p>Let me know if you have any other questions!</p>
<p>Sincerely,
Rob Clark</p>
<p>Thanks Rob. Do you know the number of admits this year? Does BU anticipate a larger class size this year? We understand that the plan is eventually to add 2000 more students. Thanks.</p>
<p>We had over 30,000 applicants for around 2,500 spaces this year.</p>