<p>Could someone please provide an overview of the various Dartmouth housing clusters -- their advantages, disadvantages, reputations, perceived quality of rooms, etc.? Is there any dorm that everybody wants to get into?</p>
<p>Link to the Residential Communities:</p>
<p>It will be a given that almost one-half of the freshmen class will be living in the River and the Choates Dorms (freshmen housing). I think that there will be pluses and minuses to every place depending on who is giving the opinion. It you do a search there are a few threads discussing housing. If Athena comes on, maybe she can give you come insight (she will be working in student housing over the summer-so you had better be nice to her :) ) with the exception of applying to East wheelock and applying for substance free, you really have no choice in where you live.</p>
<p>My daughter lives in East wheelock in a 3 room quad with bath (2 double bedrooms and a sitting room) the room is great. You must apply to live in East wheelock. She feels that it is far away from everything (it's right across from the Gym) and it has a reputation for being on the quiet side though she says that it is not true. </p>
<p>She will be going into room draw next month and if she had her choice she would like to live on Mass Row (then who wouln't). So she'll have to see how everything pans out.</p>
<p>Sybbie, if you tell me your daughter's housing number I might be able to give you a very general idea of her chances at Mass Row. PM me. :)</p>
<p>Kelly- While everyone who lives in freshman housing seems to like it, I prefer mixed class housing. That's where I lived freshman year. My dorm was Hitchcock, and I loved it. Great location, great room. Gile, Wheeler, Richardson and Russell Sage are also great locations for freshmen (R. Sage is substance free). New Hamp is not too bad. It's close to the Hop. The Fayers are a good location, but I do not find the rooms attractive.</p>
<p>Just my take :)</p>
<p>Athena-</p>
<p>Out of curiosity, how low (number-wise) do singles historically go for upperclassmen?</p>
<p>Hmmm
Well I can recall a couple of sophomores with really high numbers getting singles in North. (The quiet dorm, that little white house near Cutter/Shabazz.)
Other than that, in the main dorms, I think they usually go by the end of the junior class.</p>
<p>It varies from year to year though.</p>
<p>That's good; I'm in the mid-2900s and didn't want to be in the River yet again.</p>
<p>also <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Eshmen/dorms.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.dartmouth.edu/~shmen/dorms.htm</a>. some students' views of dorms.</p>
<p>When do incoming freshmen learn of their room assignments?</p>
<p>Freshmen get their room assignments sometime in august.</p>
<p>WG, how did you end up in the River again. What happens if you chose a room mate that takes a leave term? Do you have to give up your room if you don't get another roommate?</p>
<p>I ended up in the River again because my number and my roommate's number were both awful, and we got stuck in the Treehouses. Not particularly bad, but I just want to get out of the River at this point.</p>
<p>If you choose a roommate that takes a leave term, you can try to pull in someone who is coming back to campus. If you can't, two things are possibilities: if it's winter term and few people are around, ORL will leave your room as is. If it's a higher enrollment term (spring), they may put someone with you. That's why it's best to be safe and pull someone in.</p>
<p>Thanks for the explanation. I hope you have a better number in the room draw this year.</p>
<p>are we guaranteed housing for all four years?</p>
<p>No, we are not.</p>
<p>But you pretty much end up with housing</p>
<p>how does that work?</p>
<p>All upperclasmen are assigned a number at random and they go into the Room Draw.The room draw process. </p>
<p>[ul]
Students receive a random, computer-generated priority number. Your specific number appears on the label on the back of this booklet. For students enrolled for the fall term who are participating in Room Draw, this number determines the order in which they select rooms within their class. These priority numbers will also determine the order in which housing assignments are made for summer term 04, and winter and spring terms
05. Note: You may request to share a room with a friend in a different class year by filling out the appropriate application available at the Housing Office.</p>
<p> Active olders and senior students have the best numbers (801-2300), and will be participating in the Room Draw first, followed by rising juniors (2301-3500), and then rising sophomores (3501-4700).</p>
<p> Room Draw occurs over the course of three nights. Which night you attend is determined by your class year and priority number. Once at Room Draw, students line up in priority number order and select their rooms for the fall.</p>
<p> Rooms are drawn based on one priority number. The person with this number may pullin roommates to fill beds in the room chosen. For example, two rising sophomores who want to be roommates have numbers 3510 and 4280. During Room Draw the student with number 3510 will use their better number to draw in their intended roommate who has number 4280. Together they will select their room when number 3510 is called.</p>
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<p>What are the chances of not getting on-campus housing -- i.e., just running out of luck? Does this happen often? How is it dealt with?</p>
<p>You can and would get placed on a waitlist and will most likely get housing over the summer. Remember that Dartmouth also has off-campus housing. some people opt to live in greek housing of other affinity housing. Some people apply as UGA's and if accepted know that they have a room. Some people apply to live in Ew</p>
<p>Freshmen are guaranteed housing, then the rank system prevails. You never know what the enrollment will be like from one term to the next because you never know who willbe off for a leave term, study abroad or internship. </p>
<p>One of my D's friends is on a leave term this spring, will come back for sophmore summer and will be doing study abroad this coming fall and winter. She knows a quite a few 08's who will be off campus at some point during the next academic year. Also by 2006 I think the first of the new dorms will be completed.</p>