<p>I'm wondering if any Princeton students could help me with freshman housing form. I have a few questions about living arrangements in the rescolleges: Is there such thing as a one room triple? Or are triples usually one single and one double joined? Another option on the housing form is for "4+ roommates." I am assuming these are suites comprised of doubles and singles. Are these nice rooms? Is there anything an incoming freshman should know before requesting to be in one of the large suites (other than the obvious "living with lots of other people is difficult")? </p>
<p>Most importantly, I would like to know from any Princeton students:</p>
<p>If you could go back and redo the housing form, knowing what you know now about the various housing options, would you request a single, 1 roommate, 2-3 roommates, or 4+ roommates?</p>
<p>it doesnt hugely matter, because supposedly you are first divided into rescolleges, and then your forms are looked at. The only rescollege with a more than 4 person room is wilson, I’m pretty sure (since butler got replaced with new butler). So if you put down 4+ and don’t get placed into wilson, then you are out of luck. By the same token, whitman has very very few doubles, so if you were to write down 1 roommate and get placed into whitman, then it wouldn’t matter either. </p>
<p>there may be one or two one room triples, but they are generally a single and a double joined by a common room (the single is usually the same as the double). There aren’t really many triples in the rescolleges, since cuyler is now upperclass again. Forbes has a couple, and butler has the male half of 1915, but I’m not sure of any others.</p>
<p>There is no such thing as a one-room triple. Triples are usually a single, a double, and a common room. Large suites vary in quality, but are almost exclusively located in Wilson. When considering a suite, remember that you will have to clean your own bathroom.</p>
<p>I requested 2-3 roommates, and I would do the same thing today. Getting just one assigned roommate is risky, and often leaves you wanting for more privacy (due to the lack of a common room in freshman doubles).</p>
<p>I only requested 1 room mate originally because I was a little confused as to how housing worked; if I wanted to change my housing form to make it so it is 2-3 room mates, who should I call/e-mail?</p>
<p>Why would they place you in rescollege first? In order to satisfy the most people they should look at how many roommates youcm want. And does anyone know how they assign who to which college? On my application I asked to put me in Whitman…</p>
<p>The rescol assignment is semi-random. They take the entire class and divide it into 6 mini-classes that “represent the entire class as a whole” or something like that so that they don’t stick all the engineers in Mathey or all the Asians in Butler or anything like that. Each of the 6 mini-classes gets randomly assigned to a rescol, and they read the housing forms to go from there.</p>
<p>If people were allowed to request rescols, Whitman would be way overloaded.</p>
<p>lol, chairmanguo, i’ll bet that you won’t be placed into whitman. Nice try though, way to be discreet. Princeton controls for the demographics of each residential college. Unlike schools that let freshmen state their residential college preference (ex: MIT), Princeton makes sure that the makeup of each residential college resembles the student population as a whole. I believe that this is an excellent approach to housing assignment because it makes the Princeton community more cohesive and inclusive. You won’t have the “jocks” separating themselves from the “nerds.”</p>