<p>I have a question about the housing situation at Harvard. If you are assigned to a freshman dorm, for instance, Mower....are you then bound to a house because of your freshman dorm? Or do you get to chose what house you live in?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>No, you're not bound to an upperclassmen house. The way it works is that people form groups and apply as a group when they are assigned a house (not positive on the logistics, but the idea is that they find out what group of roomates you want to have) and then that group of roomates is randomly placed in a house. You can't apply to be in a particular upperclass house.</p>
<p>For example- Jim and Scott live in Mower, and decide that when they're upperclassmen they want to room with each other and with Chuck, who lives in Wigglesworth. They apply for housing as this group, and will be placed in a room together, but have no control over which house they'll end up it- could be Adams or Lowell or whatever.</p>
<p>Once you're an upperclassmen, I'm fairly positive that you're stuck with that configuration for three years, except in special circumstances.</p>
<p>You can transfer out of a house after a year if you wish. It happens, but rarely.</p>
<p>I love how you used Mower as an example. Almost no one knows about that one.</p>