<p>collegejawn Upper Thurston and Lower Thurston are separated, so it’s really 5</p>
<p>Does anyone know if Madison is completely filled with jocks? I don’t have anything against people who play sports (I’ve played sports too), but I don’t want everyone I live with to judge me if I’d rather watch Netflix than go for a run.</p>
<p>@collegejawn they actually ask you to list 7 i think ? so i guess we all HAVE to put MV down but make sure its like last. so like
Potomac
U. Thurston
L. Thurston
Madison
Crawford
West
Cole</p>
<p>Thats basically my list because worst comes to worst and i end up at MV, i want to live in West</p>
<p>That’s good, yet, I really don’t wanna live in Thurston. I need to decide whether it’d be better to live in West or Thurston -.-</p>
<p>Damn the MV campus :|</p>
<p>I don’t understand, why don’t you guys like MV?</p>
<p>why do they separate upper and lower thurston? whats the difference?</p>
<p>^this. seriously. Are there different types of rooms on the bottom vs. top?</p>
<p>No differences between the rooms besides how many ppl they can hold. They’re separated because of cohorts/LLCs.</p>
<p>So there aren’t more doubles in the upper part or anything like that? It just has to do with the cohorts or whatever?</p>
<p>I decided to do a little breakdown of the freshman residence halls. All the information I used can be obtained from the housing website ([Living</a> @ GW - The George Washington University](<a href=“http://living.gwu.edu/]Living”>http://living.gwu.edu/)). I did this in order to make it easier to compare one to another at a glance. Feel free to edit and repost if you have anymore info or insight. This is just the Foggy Bottom campus, but a Mount Vernon version is in the works, so stay tuned!</p>
<p>Foggy Bottom Freshman Residence Halls:</p>
<p>Crawford
o Occupancy: 158 students
o Year Built: 1926
o Style: Apartment Style; 11% singles, 80% doubles, 9% quads
o Gender: Co-ed
o Number of Floors: 8 residential floors, 1 basement
o Facilities: TV lounge with cable, laundry facilities per house, microwave/fridge combo as well as bathrooms per room, cable TV per room, phone line/individual high speed internet per room.</p>
<p>Madison
o Occupancy: 222 students
o Year Built: 1945
o Style: Apartment Style; 80% doubles, 20% quads, ?% triples *Triples are listed but no % is given. And doesnt 80 +20= 100?
o Gender: Co-ed
o Number of Floors: 8 residential, 1 basement
o Facilities: Laundry facilities per house, bathrooms per room, cable TV per room, phone line/individual high speed internet per room. </p>
<p>Potomac House
o Occupancy: 379 students
o Year Built: 2006
o Style: Apartment Style; 100% doubles
o Gender: Co-ed
o Number of Floors: 10 residential, 1 basement
o Facilities: Dining facilities/restaurants, study lounge, TV lounge with cable, laundry facilities per house, bathrooms per room, cable TV per room, phone line/individual high speed internet per room. </p>
<p>Thurston Hall
o Occupancy: 1,116 students
o Year Built: 1929
o Style: Apartment Style; 16% doubles, 13% triples, 55% quads, 3% fives, 12% sixes
o Gender: Co-ed
o Number of Floors: 9 residential, 1 basement
o Facilities: Laundry facilities per floor, microwave/fridge combo as well as bathrooms per room, cable TV per room, phone line/individual high speed internet per room.</p>
<p>wow! very nicely done!</p>
<p>I await your MV sequel!</p>
<p>And I think the application opens up today, so I hope everyone is pleased with what they can pick from!</p>
<p>hey anyone here not able to login to the housing portal with their net id?
I am able to login to the myGW but not the housing…</p>
<p>Here’s part 2 of the residence hall breakdown. This covers all the freshman housing located on Mount Vernon. Good luck!</p>
<p>Mount Vernon Residence Halls:</p>
<p>Clark
o Occupancy: not listed
o Year Built: 1945<br>
o Style: Apartment Style; 3% singles, 97% doubles
o Gender: Co-ed
o Number of Floors: 3 residential
o Facilities: Kitchen facilities per house, laundry facilities per house, microwave/fridge combination, bathrooms per room, cable TV per room, phone line/individual high speed internet per room.</p>
<p>Cole
o Occupancy: not listed
o Year Built: 1945
o Style: Apartment Style
o Gender: Co-ed
o Number of Floors: 3 residential; 100% doubles
o Facilities: TV lounge with cable, kitchen facilities per house, laundry facilities per house, microwave/fridge combination, bathrooms per room, cable TV per room, phone line/individual high speed internet per room.</p>
<p>Hensley
o Occupancy: 39 students
o Year Built: 1945
o Style: Apartment Style; 10% singles, 90% doubles
o Gender: Co-ed
o Number of Floor: 3 residential
o Facilities: TV lounge with cable, kitchen facilities per house, laundry facilities per house, microwave/fridge combination, bathrooms per room, cable TV per room, phone line/individual high speed internet per room.</p>
<p>Merriweather
o Occupancy: 43 students
o Year Built: 1960; 100% doubles
o Style: Apartment Style
o Gender: Female
o Number of Floors: 3 residential
o Facilities: TV lounge with cable, kitchen facilities per house, laundry facilities per house, microwave/fridge combination, bathrooms per room, cable TV per room, phone line/individual high speed internet per room.</p>
<p>Somers
o Occupancy: 246 students
o Year Built: 1945 (renovations and additional rooms completed in 2002)
o Style: Apartment Style; 5% singles, 95% doubles
o Gender: Co-ed
o Number of Floors: 3 Residential; ground floor level is 2nd Floor
o Facilities: Laundry facilities, a community kitchen, and study room on each floor. Lower level contains a DVD player and foosball table. An in house fitness facility is located on the lower level. Microwave/Fridge combo on each level. Cable TV per room as well as a phone line/ high speed internet. </p>
<p>West Hall
o Occupancy: 287 students
o Year Built: 2010
o Style: Apartment Style; singles, doubles *no % breakdown listed
o Gender: Co-ed
o Number of Floors: 4 residential Floors, 2 basement levels
o Facilities & Amenities: Two basement levels with multimedia studios, a black box studio theater, a number of study spaces, dining area, kitchen facilities per house, TV lounge with cable, microwave/fridge combo per room, individual phone line and high speed internet, brand new fitness centers, and laundry facilities on every floor.</p>
<p>Me, too, RichL421. It says “access denied, your account has been deactivated.” This definitely shouldn’t be as hard as it is.</p>
<p>yeah I called the school and the person who I talked to said that even though we have made a net id it talks a while for the housing system to recognize it…hopefully it will be up by tonight</p>
<p>@richl421 and @collegejawn, also make sure you are using internet explorer. Won’t work on chrome or safari, though some have said it works on firefox</p>
<p>The one thing that the list (above) of dorms available to freshmen doesn’t have is the price difference between the dorms and rooms! Is anyone else concerned about this?</p>
<p>The cheapest dorms are $7,130 as follows:
MV:
Clark double
Cole double
Hensley double
Merriwether double</p>
<p>FB:
Thurston quad, 5, and 6-people rooms</p>
<p>The next price is $9,250, but I think only a double in Somers (MV) is that price for freshmen.</p>
<p>The rest of the freshmen dorms, including doubles and triples in Thurston, are $9,650.</p>
<p>I wish the university budgeted extra for freshmen on financial aid or provided housing grants, because it seems very unfair to forcibly segregate freshmen by ability to pay the extra $2.5K.</p>
<p>this thread is pointless. half of you will end up in thurston no matter what. a quarter will get effed over and end up on the vern. the only people that get a choice are ed1/2 and people that sent in their deposits in like march</p>
<p>There’s actually a decent number of ED students posting on this thread (including myelf), so I woudn’t necessarily call it pointless.</p>
<p>fair enough. that last post was directed towards non ed-ers i.e. the vast majority of students.
best advice i could give is do NOT put the vern anywhere on your application under any circumstance. there’s really nothing to debate if you’re ed, just put potomac or lafayette (or thurston if you really want the social experience) and you’re all set. those are by far the best freshman dorms on campus (and usually reserved for ed)</p>