<p>Please comment on the Dorms at Emory (best, worst and why). I thought there was a thread on this but I can't seem to locate it. Thanks.</p>
<p>Ah, so have you decided to go to Emory, all smart one?</p>
<p>Do some research no one is gonna type a synopsis on every dorm.</p>
<p>OP wouldn’t be asking if that’s what he/she wanted. Can anyone provide the “lowdown,” so to speak, on the freshman dorms. Insider tips, etc.</p>
<p>I am an incoming freshman, and I only know what I gathered from the tour: New buildings (built last year, I think), bathroom for every room, and good AC, near that theater in the park area, I only saw 2 large new buildings which the guide distinguished as being freshman dorms</p>
<p>Afitscher…I am looking for comments (inside perspective) from current students. I hardly expected anyone to repeat info that is common knowledge.
Hilsa…Yes, after much consideration, I decided to choose Emory over Harvard and I’m excited to be coming to Atlanta. Did you hear from Vanderbilt yet?? If you still want to go there tell them you will take my spot, lol!!</p>
<p>freshmen can’t choose the dorms ,can they?</p>
<p>Apparently I was wrong about dorms with bathrooms in each room being available to freshmen.</p>
<p>Only these residence halls provide that amenity:</p>
<p>Clairmont Undergraduate Residential Center (juniors and seniors)
Clairmont Tower Apartments (sophmores)
Clifton Tower (sophmores)
Woodruff (sophmores)
Spanish House (spanish speakin’ folk)</p>
<p>So that sucks.</p>
<p>[Undergraduate</a> Housing :: Housing Options for Incoming First-Year Students](<a href=“Residence Life and Housing Operations | Emory University | Atlanta GA”>Residence Life and Housing Operations | Emory University | Atlanta GA)
These are your housing options.</p>
<p>You cannot choose specific dorms or rooms but you can choose your roommate.</p>
<p>Individual bathrooms are not a necessity, nor are they that much more convenient. You’ll get used to carrying your shower things back and forth. There are sinks in each room though so you can brush your teeth and wash your face in your room.</p>
<p>The best freshmen dorms are the new ones available through the FYE programs Living Green and Citizenship. You just need to submit an application and hope to be selected.
Few, Evans, and New Turman are very nicely furnished, spacious, clean, and technologically advanced. They are both located a 10 second sprint to the dining hall (DUC) and the WoodPEC.</p>
<p>Harris and Complex are not too bad, though they are older, darker, and smaller. They are located next to the library.</p>
<p>McTyeire and Trimble are old and on the edge of campus, I personally did not know many people who lived there. It doesn’t seem like a social dorm. It’s neighbors are Few which is across the street, and Turman, which share a parking lot with DUC. It is close to the Depot where you can purchase food with Dooley Dollars.</p>
<p>Dobbs is the worst dorm because it is the smallest building size (I think only 2 or 3 floors), and room size. It’s location is nice though, similar to the new dorms, it is next to the DUC and WoodPEC.</p>
<p>You should be able to find good pictures of each of these dorms via FB groups.</p>
<p>anyone know when we hear about whether we got into FYE housing? i applied for citizenship</p>
<p>Dobbs’ rooms are very very small - be prepared. However, the comraderie there is unlike any other dorm on Emory’s campus - these people ALL stay in close touch throughout their four years. McTyeire & Alabama Hall have the next biggest rooms for freshman, and both are next to the student union / dining hall (DUC). Alabama Hall is a little more central, but beware - the Residence Life & Housing offices are on the first floor (not a bad thing, but some people don’t like that). New Turman, Few & Evans (living learning application based communities) are the newest, and as such the nicest. Complex (Smith, Harris, Hopkins) are decent buildings across from the library, and Harris is connected to it. Trimble is across from the Depot (a student diner), and next to McTyeire / across from Few & Evans, so it’s a pretty good location, too.</p>
<p>I’d love to get Dobbs.</p>
<p>As long as I have a bed, I’m fine. I could care less about room space.</p>
<p>And the way I see it, the smaller the dorm is, the less annoying sounds from people.</p>
<p>Any single dorms at Emory for freshman?</p>
<p>Its easier for me to concentrate on school work my freshman year if I lived alone…Sophmore year, I wouldn’t mind rooming with some friends…but right now I don’t know anyone at Emory…</p>
<p>^ there are definitely single dorms!
I am pretty sure every residence hall has single rooms available.
You should specify in the housing preferences that you would like to be in a single.</p>
<p>After reading the Emory 2013 facebook group, it seems like most people want roommates (aka doubles), so maybe we pro-single room people may actually end up with singles after all.</p>
<p>I put single for all of my 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choices. Hehe.</p>
<p>your missing out on an invaluable experience: having a freshman roommate!!</p>
<p>how much extra money does singles cost? will a single fit within the budget if they are offering me full financial aid (All of the 52k or so for next year)?</p>
<p>I think a single is about $200/semester more than a double, but I’m not sure.</p>
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<p>I don’t know a single person there either, so that’s why I’m probably requesting a roommate. I’ve heard it’s a fun experience…if you get along.</p>
<p>not only is having a roommate supposed to be a fun experience, but people think you’re antisocial if you live alone freshman year. i mean c’mon, its your first year in college-time to get to know everyone!</p>
<p>My first year, the people who roomed in singles were either International Koreans or almost all decidedly antisocial people. The ones that did come out and reveal themselves to be fun, interesting people had to fight through the automatic assumptions the whole way, (that they were antisocial, didn’t want to talk to people, etc). </p>
<p>If you’re really concerned about having quiet and solitude to study, going to the library is your best bet anyway. You’ll find it very difficult to get work done in the dorms, where your friends are, where the socialization is. Everyone recognizes the library as ‘study space’ and as such, it’s much more a conducive environment for studying.</p>
<p>^^^ wait, if you live in a single dorm, you are automatically considered anti-social…WWTTFF…I like to have fun with friends, but I need a queit place to study, and a place where I could study randomly, like at 7 in the morning or 3 at night…</p>