<p>does anyone have dorm suggestions? Best dorms for freshmen? Best residential learning communities?</p>
<p>D is in Sewall, new cafeteria which has "best food on campus", great location - near the Rec Center, away from the zoo dorms, close to the Hill. Lots of singles (but you pay extra). The RAP is History of American West, which sounds better than it is. Better hurray with your deposit tho.</p>
<p>S requested Sewall, Farrand, Baker, Libby, Cheyenne Arapaho, and Hallett (all Main Campus). Close to this order, but I'm not exactly sure - he didn't let me see! He should hear within the next two weeks which one he gets into.</p>
<p>D is a second year student at CU and because she didn't decide until late April that she was going there, she was at Darley North in Williams Village (not Main Campus). That's where most of the later admittees end up. The dorms are newer and they have sinks in the rooms, which the ones on Main Campus don't have. However, you do have a longer walk to class, or you catch a bus.</p>
<p>FYI - most of the dorm residents are freshman in nearly all of the buildings. Many kids move off campus the next year. They simply don't have enough housing for everyone to live on campus all 4 years. Bear Creek Apartments is upperclassmen, though (Williams Village) and I'm sure there are other housing options on campus for upperclassment that I'm not aware of. D lives in a 2 bedroom apartment with a roommate this year and will live in a house with 2 other roommates next year.</p>
<p>How quickly does Sewall fill up? My dad lived there as a freshman at CU (many, many, many years ago..) and I think it would be great to make it a kind of family tradition. Haha. I'm still not sure if I want to go to CU, though.</p>
<p>Sewall fills up fast, as do most of the Main Campus dorms. If you haven't already put in a housing request for it, you probably don't stand a very good chance of rooming there next year.</p>
<p>Were I applying now, I'd consider requesting one of the Engineering quad dorms. They are in a good location (way better than Kittridge or Willville), are not huge, and I'd guess the geek factor scares people off. Not to worry - they are as dedicated to enjoying life as the rest of the campus (at least on weekends).</p>
<p>Don't live in Will Vill. I repeat, DON'T LIVE IN WILL VILL! Especially Stearns East or West. The Darley buildings are semi nicer, but you will get frustrated with the buff bus and your reliance on it for getting to campus (you can walk or bike, too but most people don't). I chose very very late to come to the university of colorado (june actually) and was obviously placed in Will Vill (stearns east). I hate it. Freshman in Will Vill act like...well, what you'd expect freshman to act like if they think no one cares (which they don't. RAs at stearns east never there/non helpful/don't care/etc.). No one is friendly, the doors are always closed and most people sit in their rooms and smoke marijuana. My friends at Kitt have much better social lives and have a much closer sense of bonding with the people and closer to doing fun random things on campus. One of my friends got into Libby by doing the online application and just filling Libby in for all of his choices. you could try that method.
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<p>I'm sorry that you had/are having a bad experience at Stearns, BreRocks. D's experience at Darley North, fortunately, wasn't nearly as bad. Instead of finding kids that "didn't care", hers was the opposite. Many of the kids were late deciders because they had so many good options to choose from (that's what D's situation was, as was her boyfriend's). They just happened to wait until the end of April to decide where they wanted to go to college. I do know that D didn't like being so far from Main Campus.</p>
<p>I hope that if you're coming back to CU next year that you find a housing situation where you're happier than where you presently are.</p>