<p>I'm sure this has been asked before.. but what dorms would you recommend?... What kind are offered, do the dorms have "special" themes. Anything else to know?</p>
<p>And... if you have any pictures.. please post.</p>
<p>Well, my son spent the summer in West Lag (Lagunita), which has some of the smallest doubles on campus, and they were freaking <em>tiny</em>. If he's accepted, he's going SLE, though, so he doesn't have to worry about housing choice, because he'll be in SLE housing.</p>
<p>Yeah, I was just introduced to the West Lag minidoubles a few days ago (I live in Wilbur, so I rarely make it over to west campus). They're highly undesirable, and you should hope you don't get one.</p>
<p>You should definitely go for an all-frosh dorm. They're loads of fun. Lots of dorm bonding and all that.</p>
<p>I love Wilbur, but I can't really say much about other dorms, as I'm in my own dorm most of the time. Wilbur has very large rooms (for a dorm room, anyway), a great dining hall, and pretty good location. We're also not like Stern, in that it's "defensible only in the military sense" or however that quote goes; the Wilbur dorms are definitely not cinder-block dorms.</p>
<p>Is there any way I can increase my chances of getting assigned to a certain dorm? I know there's a lottery system and all, but there's got to be a loophole, right?</p>
<p>I think you can request kosher and get a special dorm assignment.</p>
<p>So which dorms would you guys recommend?
(And which are all "frosh"?)</p>
<p>Can you guys rate your dorm (1-10) and give a small description, </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>how are the SLE dorms? what are the SLE dorms? Is there just one, no choice?</p>
<p>SLE folks all live in East FloMo. No, you don't get a choice, if you participate in that program, because part of the SLE program involves a stronger Residence Eduation (RE) aspect.</p>
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<p>Can you guys rate your dorm (1-10) and give a small description,</p>
<p>Thanks.
There's a ton of info about dorms in this thread - <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=129887%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=129887</a></p>
<p>With SLE there are three possible dorms, allowing you to give a preference between all-frosh and 4-class dorms. Alondra is all-frosh, and half of the frosh are in SLE. Cardenal and Faisan are four-class; roughly half the students are frosh, and all the frosh are in SLE.</p>
<p>You shouldn't make decisions about SLE based on the dorm, though. Make that decision on whether or not you like the program.</p>
<p>You said, "You shouldn't make decisions about SLE based on the dorm, though. Make that decision on whether or not you like the program."</p>
<p>OH, I agree! My son is excited about SLE -- he'd live wherever to be in the program. Those are just the only ones I know much about. I know Lag (Ujamaa) from his summer stay there, and the SLE housing sitch.</p>