<p>I wish somebody told me this before I filled out my housing preference forms. These are some good and bad dorms on campus:</p>
<p>VERY BAD:
West Laguanita
Roble
Ujaama ethnic theme house</p>
<p>BAD:
Wilbur (good food though)
Stern
Florence Moore
The rest of the ethnic theme dorms</p>
<p>GOOD:
Freshman Sophomore College (FroSoCo)</p>
<p>THE BEST:
Branner (lucky bastards)</p>
<p>Right now I'm stuck in Wilbur and it sucks. So heads up guys. Also, be sure to choose your IHUM classes very carefully. Stay away from philsophy ones like "Visions of Mortality" which are hard as hell.</p>
<p>The social life at each dorm is what you make of it, although the four-class dorms are a bit more quiet and have more closed doors than the freshmen dorms. FroSoCo is definitely better than four-class dorms.</p>
<p>The food at West Laguanita is HORRIBLE. It's not A La Carte either so you can't really eat at different places like Wilbur. </p>
<p>If quality of food is your main concern, then live in a Wilbur dorm (some Wilbur dorms like Junipero are all frosh, which is pretty good). If you like parties and noise and social funness, live in an all-frosh dorm like Branner.</p>
<p>FroSoCo is just incredibly far away from everything else on campus. It's very isolated. Rooster, some people enjoy living in the four class dorms. It's a different experience from the freshmen dorms, but it is a good one for some people.</p>
<p>just so you guys know, you dont get to rank which dorm you want. they ask you whether you want 4 class, all freshmen, single sex, or coed. Frosoco is a seperate.. program. they have the largest dorms for freshmen, but its also practically off campus (far from the main quad). (i 'm a freshman now, i got in last year SCEA, and started reading this forum cause i'm procrastinating. its finals week.)</p>
<p>A hint for all of you who are accepted: when you rank your housing choices, rank ALL of them. Do not rank your top one or two and then say you wouldn't want to be in, say, a 4-class dorm or a theme house and leave those blank: "that is the surest way to get your housing form put at the bottom of the pile".</p>
<p>You can choose to be in any of them if you are so inclined. I personally don't like theme houses because they just encourage racial separateness. Almost every college has them to promote diversity, but I think it does the exact opposite.</p>
<p>However, if one were to bring up proposals to eliminate them, special interest groups would throw up their arms in angry protest. By special interest, I mean those very few Asian-Americans, African-Americans, and Latinos who actually like theme housing. Most ethnic minorities dont like theme houses, however, and many of my friends were put into them even though they didn't ask for it on their housing preference forms.</p>
<p>Rooster08 again: did your friends list them as ranked preferences or just leave them blank? The latter is NOT a good idea. I know someone who wrote that he did not want to be in a theme house and guess where he ended up. You should rank them all, just put them last if you don't want to be in them. Maybe you'll end up there anyway, but leaving them blank or saying you don't want to be there is probably going to give a worse result. By the way, this is information that was given out at admit weekend at the housing seminar, so it is straight from the administration. But I did not see it written in the forms, so be advised.</p>
<p>if you just want the numbers, 1530 sati, 800mathii,780writing/790chem/800us history, 4.0 unweighted, rank 1. But i'd say dont worry about the stats, they look at a lot more than standardized testing. you wanna present yourslef as an interesting person. you can ask me if you have any questions. winterbreak starts tomorrow! yay. if i dont answe,r its cause i'm not at the computer and i dont believe in away messages:P mm, gl you guys! college apps suck :(</p>