<p>I've heard that most Freshmen at UCLA usually room in Hedrick or Dykstra because upperclassmen don't like going all the way up the hill. But don't underclassmen have priority for housing? Does anybody know what the Hedrick and Dykstra dorms are like? (new, old, cramped, roomy, how many people to a communal bathroom, etc.) </p>
<p>One of my friends rooms in Sunset Village and it's supposed to be pretty nice because the rooms all have their own bathrooms. Are those rooms still considered to be part of a residence hall or are they suites?</p>
<p>Sunset Village is a plaza. UPPERclass men get housing priority...we already picked all our rooms and we have to accept our housing contracts by next week. all the residence halls are basically old, cramped (though doubles are OK), and the whole floor shares one bathroom (well, floors are divided into 2 wings, each wing has one guys and one girls bathroom).</p>
<p>I heard from my friend at UCLA that there's not much room this year... and that most of the freshmen are going to be in triples... is that true?</p>
<p>Yeah Sproul is going to be closing down for renovation, and they're guaranteeing four years of housing, so fourth years are being invited back. So more people + less rooms = sorry freshies :)
However, Rieber Terrace will be opening next year, so there will be some more rooms, but I would assume not enough to make it so the number of triples goes down by any significant amount.</p>
<p>wow....it seems like my year gets shat on left and right..</p>
<p>new SAT, score ****ups vis a vis collegeboard, senior projects left and right, new community service grad reqs, a revamped curfew....and now decreased dorm space...</p>
<p>Neo Yoyo, this is college, not day care. There is no curfew. You're an adult now, son. Get used to it. :)</p>
<p>Hey guys, don't fret the triples. Unless you're bringin' a lay over every night, it's not that big of a deal. I found that in most cases, I hardly noticed my roommates since my nose was buried in some book about how some factor in some country caused X political issue to magnify by magnitude Y, yada yada yada...</p>
<p>Put on your earphones, turn on the music, and you'll be fine.</p>
<p>hey for my housing application, i requested to dorm with 2 of my friends, and i put down roommate as my highest-ranked preference, but i have different rankings of housing types (suite, plaza, hall) than theirs. will this hurt my chance of rooming with my 2 friends or will this not matter at all since i put roommate as 1st preference? by the way, does anyone know the chances we 3, as roommates, will get suites? plazas? or for fall 2006, will we most likely get placed into halls?</p>
<p>That'll hurt your chances (I think it may have said somewhere on the application that your preferences should be the same as your preferred roommates). You can still appeal once they open that option up.</p>
<p>I used to live in Hedrick back when. The rooms are pretty standard dorm room stuff. It's a lot better now than then because they finished construction on that building so now it has a nice lobby, less noise, and such. The Hedrick rooms are slightly wider than Dykstra rooms and Dykstra rooms are slightly longer. Otherwise they're pretty much the same. The Hedrick bathrooms are definitely bigger and nicer than the Dykstra ones. The Dykstra walls and doors are thinner than the other res halls so sound definitely resonates down the hall better. Living in Hedrick is also nice in that it's almost all first years, so you all meet a lot of people in the exact same situation as yours.</p>
<p>Also, Hedrick dining hall >>>> DeNeve dining hall.</p>
<p>I've lived in a triple as well, though not in a res hall (it was a plaza, but the rooms are the same size anyway). I don't think it's that big a deal, though I did luck out in our third roommate was never there. Then again, he was a weirdo, and I shut him out even when he was there. Even so, I basically had enough room to operate in there, enough study space with my computer, enough to strum the guitar and watch TV. It's not like I felt claustrophobic while I slept. Just don't bring every possession you own, but I'd recommend that even with a double. Besides, if you want room, you have THE ENTIRE REST OF THIS GIANT CAMPUS. Leave your room once in a while kids. You have the rest of your life to live comfortably.</p>