<p>Can any current students comment on the housing process and best housing choices for freshmen?</p>
<p>How is housing assigned?</p>
<p>Would you recommend traditional style vs. suite style, and what are the advantages/disadvantages of the various buildings?</p>
<p>Millennium is the nice new honors dorm. Frequently too hot or too cold and concrete walls. Isn’t that spectacular. The other places are just OK. Honestly if you are honors you’ll be in millennium and if not- you are going to be in one of the other places. The others are practically identical.</p>
<p>If you can I would seriously start by commuting. It’s not bad at all and I find most of my friends on campus go home all of the time anyway since they get so bored. You can only do so much in west philly. Housing is expensive and I’m not kidding when I say about all 20 or so of my close new friends are either commuting from home next year or getting an apartment.</p>
<p>Why would you want to spend $2,000 a month to share a bathroom with 30-40 people? Plus the meal plan is expensive and the food is always cold except on tour days when they make it nice for the interested students. Not worth it IMO</p>
<p>What are the odds of getting suite style housing as a Freshman?</p>
<p>At to the others, the Towers rooms actually seem the most spacious, despite being tripled. Do people generally like or not like living in a triple?</p>
<p>Look into the Learning Communities at Drexel. For example, this year there is a learning community for the ischool in Myers Hall. You get a big room for two. Apply early for this housing selection.</p>
<p>unfortunately there’s no learning community for students in the Arts and Sciences programs.</p>
<p>I lived in Race my freshman year and loved it. It’s newer than most of the other dorms, and suite-style is great! Back then it was the honors dorm but now it’s open to anyone pretty much. If it’s an option on your form then rank it first and cross your fingers. I’d caution against Towers since it will likely be tripled again. It’s difficult enough to coordinate with one roommate’s sleeping schedules, and it’s not worth the slight increase in area to have a triple IMHO.</p>
<p>How do the learning communities work? According to the website, there have been learning communities associated with several of the colleges in the past (including COMAD) but it seems all there is now is Pennoni?</p>
<p>We learned about the learning communities during the “Accepted Students Day”. During the session (for our particular college) the faculty, staff and student representatives talked about the advantages of being in a learning community. We checked on-line to see when the housing form was available. We, then, indicated on the form that the learning community was our first choice, and submitted the form immediately. Boy, we are so pleased that it is one of the biggest freshman rooms that we have seen, and grateful that it is just for two students.</p>
<p>Enna6, to get in a learning community, CoMad, for example, how early do you think a student needs to apply? Would the end of April still be good?</p>
<p>I would call the housing office and find out the details for your particular college.</p>