<p>When you apply for dorms, can you specify what kind of room you want? Or are you just assigned to any type of room at random?</p>
<p>You can’t pick what room you want. It’s all random. You can only pick what dorm housing you’d prefer.</p>
<p>Does anyone happen to know how we find out more about the Explorations floors and how to become a part of them?</p>
<p>Yeah the only option it gives for dorm “type” is low-cost yes or no. There is no option for explorations, choices, etc.</p>
<p>Oh, you can ask to be put in a low cost dorm? That’s kind of what I meant in my question. I’d love to dorm at NYU, and if I can get into a low cost dorm, that’d be amazing! :D</p>
<p>Yeah it just has an option that asks “low cost no” or “low cost yes” right before you put your preference for dorm.</p>
<p>I chose low cost yes.</p>
<p>If you choose low cost yes, do you definitely get into a low cost dorm?</p>
<p>It depends on the level of demand for low cost housing this year. For my daughter’s freshman year (2007/2008), some students requesting low cost housing were assigned to a standard room and, oddly enough, some students who did not request low cost housing were assigned to it. I’m not sure if it was a computer glitch or what, but I know there was some switching around after the housing assignments were announced. As I recall, not everyone ended up happy, but it was more a case of students ending up in a low cost triple who would have preferred a standard room. If you absolutely must have low cost housing in order to attend let them know that. And if you still end up in a standard room, have your parent call and reiterate that your finances require low cost housing.</p>
<p>Can anyone tell me how far it is to walk from Hayden to the Playwrights Horizons Theatre School? My D wants Hayden and it seems a good fit for her, but is farther from Playwrights than Founders et al.</p>
<p>You can find out the approximate walking time from/to any location in NYC by using a very handy website called HOPSTOP.com and selecting “walking only” as the mode of transportation. Here is the link: [HopStop.com</a> - Subway Directions and Bus Directions for New York City (NYC)](<a href=“http://www.hopstop.com/?city=newyork]HopStop.com”>http://www.hopstop.com/?city=newyork)</p>
<p>Thanks CASmom. Great site! Now another question. Can anyone compare the LCT’s at Hayden and 3 North. D may have to look at low cost options, not sure yet on the gazillion scholarship apps we have submitted. She wants to know comparative size of the bedrooms and closet space. At Hayden, where the LCT is all in one bedroom, are two of the beds bunked and does the top bunkmate get shafted on under bed storage? And at 3 North, it sounds like a double and a single share one kitchen/bath/living area…sound right? So how spacious is the double? Thanks, there are so many decisions, but housing is right up there.</p>
<p>Can someone please answer these questions about low-cost housing?:</p>
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<li><p>How much is the price difference for low-cost housing? (I am definitely applying for it because of my family’s financial situation. I have “heard” (online) it’s approximately $6,500 for a triple, compared to the $13,507 listed on NYU’s “Financial Facts” sheet that I was mailed with my acceptance folder.)</p></li>
<li><p>Can they still assign you a dorm with A/C if you request low-cost housing? (I have dust allergies, other allergies, and really dry skin that require me to have A/C year-round.)</p></li>
<li><p>Can you still request a particular roommate if you want low-cost housing?</p></li>
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<p>@jerseygirl91</p>
<p>Depends on which low-cost you get. If you get the cheapest low-cost, which is at rubin, it’ll be around 6500. but if you get hayden or brittany low-cost, it’s more expensive but still cheaper than 13,507.</p>
<p>hayden has A/C. brittany and rubin dont. so if you want, A/C, then you should probably put hayden as first choice? but i dont think you can have A/C year-round. i think they turn off the A/C when its winter.</p>
<p>you can still request a particular roommate as long as the roommate also wants low-cost too.</p>
<p>shjk515, thanks for the clarification! </p>
<p>So, within your own rooms, you and your roommates don’t control the A/C or heater? They control everything for you? If so, I wonder why I heard so many people complaining about freezing during Halloweentime? – Do they not turn the heater on in late October? So confusing, haha.</p>
<p>for brittany and rubin, you have no control. i heard theres a knob that you can turn to turn the heater on and off but i couldnt find it in my room (i live in rubin). anyways, they control it for you. it started getting cold early but they didnt turn on the heater yet so i guess thats why they said it was freezing during halloween? you basically have to wait until the person who controls it thinks its cold enough for the heater. so sometimes, it is FREEZING because the heater isnt on.</p>
<p>i actually dont know about hayden because i dont live there. But I think it’s still somewhat controlled… I don’t think you have full control in what you want.</p>
<p>Could anyone talk a little bit about each/some of the first-year student dorm buildings? It seems like a lot of kids want to go to certain places, and I’m not sure why, because their descriptions don’t seem too different. Is it location maybe?</p>
<p>I’ll tell you the reasons why I want Founders. It is new and therefore clean; it just opened for the 2009-2010 school year (a lot of the other frosh dorms are a bit run-down or unappealing). Also, the rooms are huge, it a good distance from the main campus (about a 10 minute walk, which isn’t too far; I get to see more of the city on a daily basis), it has a back courtyard, and I kind of like the Church facade in the front (As long as my room isn’t right in front of it).</p>