<p>my questions would be:</p>
<p>How do the dorms at Dartmouth work for freshmen? HOw are room mates picked? Do you fill out a survey? How much choice do you have in the matter of which dorm, or how many rooms mates?</p>
<p>oh and i'd like to add another question to that...is dorming guaranteed for all 4 years?</p>
<p>Freshmen are guaranteed housing. Hopfully Athena (who will be working on campus over the summer in housing will offer an opinion). Housing in subsequent years are done by a room draw (lottery sytem) A lot of things are alos dependent upon the D-plan becasue with the exception of Freshmen and seniors who must be in residence, you never know the configuration of students on campus.</p>
<p>Yes, there can be a bit of a crunch sophmore year:
<a href="http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2005030901080&sheadline=housing&sauthor=&stext=%5B/url%5D">http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2005030901080&sheadline=housing&sauthor=&stext=</a></p>
<p>However there is new housing being built that should be open 2006</p>
<p>The beginning of the end of Dartmouth's housing crunch will kick off next week ,when construction workers barricade the large parking lot north of Maynard Street, Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman told the Student Assembly Tuesday night.</p>
<p>Speaking at the Assembly's weekly meeting, Redman said the $66 million construction of two new residential complexes will take about two years and will add some 500 beds to Dartmouth's housing system.</p>
<p>Redman now estimates that the 342-bed McLaughlin residential cluster, which will take up the Maynard lot and be slightly larger than the East Wheelock cluster, will be done by fall 2006.</p>
<p>The smaller 162-bed Tuck Mall building, to be built about 50 feet from the Butterfield and Russell Sage dorms, may lag slightly behind schedule until the winter of 2006, Redman estimated. That part of the project still requires some town approvals, and construction will likely begin in the spring.</p>
<p>Residential communities and floor plans</p>
<p>Threads on housing</p>