<p>Has anyone had an opportunity to choose which dorm they will live in next year? Or is that randomly determined? D did not have a chance to see the dorms on either of our visits.</p>
<p>Did you get the housing packet in the mail yet?..very comprehensive; it’s not random…and the website has TONS of info as well…</p>
<p>ask away if you have questions about specific dorms; we saw them at Orientation (or at least a sample of some of them)</p>
<p>I don’t think she’s received that yet. So it should be coming soon. We will be on the lookout. Will she get to choose a dorm?</p>
<p>Last year they had the freshman select 6 choices in order of preference. You could designate a preferred room mate if you knew someone you wanted to room with.
You can view some of the options here
[Residence</a> Hall Online Tour](<a href=“Elon University - America’s Top-Ranked Teaching University”>Elon University - America’s Top-Ranked Teaching University)</p>
<p>Elon is undergoing some major housing changes - it’s all good. They’ve already taken 3 existing dorms off the campus map, they are being torn down this summer. But three brand new Colonnades dorms are opening! </p>
<p>I’m sure they’ll send information to help your student choose. My daughter met her roommate via Facebook, then in person (she only lives about 1/2 hour from us) before they decided to room together. Together they ranked their top 6 dorms, I think they ended up in their 2nd or 3rd choice.</p>
<p>My daughter was in Moffit this year and liked it. She will be in Danieley Apartments next year. She didn’t want Danieley last year because she thought it was too remote, but with the new Colonnades dorms opening I think they will feel more linked to campus. The kids who live in Danieley seem to like it.</p>
<p>All college kids will tell you - it’s more important WHO you live with than WHERE you live. A hall of fun kids in an old dorm can be better than a hall of boring kids in a brand-new dorm.</p>
<p>A word about choosing roommates - be careful finding a roommate on Facebook. Just because you both played softball and like country music doesn’t mean you’ll be a good fit. The more important things are mutual respect (for property, noise levels, etc), sleeping patterns, neat vs slob, and partying levels.</p>
<p>Thanks for the link…which ones are freshman dorms?</p>
<p>Couclough, Chandler & Maynard are being torn down. Most juniors and seniors at Elon move off campus, so virtually all of the dorms are frosh & sophomores. It looks like all of the dorms on that list have freshmen in them. </p>
<p>There are on-campus apartments that are not open to freshmen, but I don’t see them on this list (The Oaks, some of the Danieley buildings).</p>
<p>lafalum: just curious; since your daughter was ED, how come she didn’t get her first choice? no biggie, jw</p>
<p>She was ED and her roommate was EA! But their first choice was Sloan, and it only has space for about a dozen freshmen - it’s mostly reserved for living groups/special interest groups.</p>
<p>^^ahh…yes, we were told that there were VERY few spots in Sloan for freshman who weren’t in the communications learning community; makes sense…</p>
<p>At one of the Phoenix Friday sessions, the housing folks were encouraging the incoming freshmen to let them do the roommate matching rather than Facebook because their matches had a better chance of success – they said most of the roommate problems come from roommate matching by people from same town, friend of a friend, facebook, etc. Does anyone know if the automated roommate matching really does work?</p>
<p>Thanks Lafalum! My D has decided to wait and allow Elon to choose her roommate. Is that a bad decision? Does your D know if this usually works?</p>
<p>My son did find his room mate on facebook and thankfully it all worked out and they will be rooming together again next year. We are from NJ and a bunch of Jersey and Pa kids who never met before gathered at Great Adventure amusement park for a day. (You get to talk a lot when you are waiting in line for a ride) I agree that mutual respect and flexibility is more important than having similar majors, or interests.</p>
<p>^^what a great idea!! who organized that scoutmom9 or was it just random?</p>
<p>^^what a great idea!! who organized that scoutmom9 or was it just random? </p>
<p>Through facebook on the Elon Class page some kids just got together, came up with a date and then arranged to meet there at a certain time.</p>
<p>Boston area Elon kids also had a meet-up last Spring! They went into Boston and wandered around Newbury Street then went to dinner. There were about 18 of them that went. My D met her future roommate there and after talking they decided to room together. The kids organized it themselves, out of a Boston/Mass sub-group that formed from the Elon 2014 FB group. There were even more Mass kids in the FB group that didn’t go on the outing, so if your kid has to miss a get-together like that I wouldn’t worry too much about it.</p>
<p>I don’t think you’re guaranteed a good roommate match if you find someone yourself on Facebook. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Same with the “random” assignment the college does. I think a lot of girls try to find a roommate themselves, and a lot of guys let the college do it. D’s situation worked well this year but they are not rooming together next year - I think they’ll still be friends, though. She knows people who were randomly assigned and it was fine, and people who picked their roommates and it was fine. She also knows one girl who chose her roommate thru FB and ended up moving out halfway thru first semester, the roommate had some serious “issues” that weren’t apparent by reading her FB wall.</p>
<p>OK D is going to be living in Danieley Flats…any advice on what to bring? It looks like they have kitchenettes in that particular dorm??</p>
<p>A bike is really handy in Danieley. It’s a bit distant from the classroom buildings, but a lot of kids live there and seem to like it. There’s a “tram” that also runs but I think a lot of kids there use bikes.</p>