<p>If you sent in your enrollment decision yet, have you received your options for housing selection?</p>
<p>Now I got it. On the CD with the admissions packet.</p>
<p>You'd think a tech university like CMU would give you the option to do this crap online, wouldn't you?</p>
<p>It's normally online. Frankly, the CD menu points to a link on their website for any of the forms, which are pdfs.</p>
<p>There were links to things like this from last year on the "Now that your enrolling" page which is supposed to be back this week. I think they're just taking the time to updated it for the new year.</p>
<p>BTW, we'd visited the campus, but found it hard to make a final decision. We wound up relying on recommendations a current student made here on CC.</p>
<p>I know it's on the CD - I meant an online, HTML form, like the Common App. I can't think why they haven't done this - it would be easier for them, too, in the long run. It would be a lot less paper to manage.</p>
<p><em>debating on what 3rd dorm to put as a choice</em> I was thinking about Donner, but I know that having a room in the basement would drive me insane (I know, I'm weird). Something I read said the basement was an all-male floor last year. Does anyone know if the same floors are all-male/all-female every year? If so I could put it...</p>
<p>KrazyKow-</p>
<p>It's always better to be safe and go straight to the right people for answers. I'd take the time to call housing and ask them. They are open until 5:00pm (eastern time).</p>
<p>Phone: (412) 268-2139
Fax: (412) 268-5718
Email: <a href="mailto:univhous@andrew.cmu.edu">univhous@andrew.cmu.edu</a></p>
<p>Thank you. :)</p>
<p>I have no idea on what dorms to put. All I know is I'm putting Morewood E as my first choice. I don't know anything about any of the others - facilities, room size, etc. Any current students care to chime in?</p>
<p>I assume you've seen this?</p>
<p>Yep, so I know morewood E and new house are my first two choices (not sure what order, yet), and I'm trying to decide what the third is.</p>
<p>Donner looks decent in the virtual tour, but who really knows?</p>
<p>Does anyone plan to have a refrigerator or a microwave in their rooms? Newhouse's rooms look so small, I can't imagine how it's possible. Same for a small TV for videogames if nothing else.</p>
<p>Yeah, the poster in that thread said Morewood E has A/C and implies New House doesn't. I just cannot live without A/C. I've lived in cold weather (Belgium) so long that I die when exposed to temperatures above 75 F.</p>
<p>In the pic on the website for Morewood E (<a href="http://www.housing.cmu.edu/buildings/morewoodetwr/%5B/url%5D">http://www.housing.cmu.edu/buildings/morewoodetwr/</a>) the room looks ridiculously tiny. There better be more to it than that. Or are all dorm rooms like that?</p>
<p>Didn't you check the other rooms? New House was even smaller, though Donner looks about the same size. Our tour guide on our campus visit said that there were only three dorms on campus that had air and New House was the main freshman dorm that did. </p>
<p>We're from Texas. At 75 who needs air conditioning? I suspect during most of the actually school year it's not going to matter. We've seen into the 90s already, but the high in Pittsburgh is forecast to be 48F today. Natives of Pittsburgh are probably getting out their shorts, but we'd be bundling up.</p>
<p>I really can't stand hot weather. I'm more resistant to cold than even most Brussels residents, but heat just kills me.</p>
<p>I didn't see any dorm rooms when I went on a tour, so I have no idea about the sizes of the rooms. You say Morewood E has bigger rooms than New House, though?</p>
<p>Morewood E's rooms are bigger, but only slightly, at least in my opinion... I stayed in Morewood over night, and went on a "dorm tour" to New House the next day.</p>
<p>I agree with the A/C not being a big deal thing for Texans. :)</p>
<p>Everyone seems to be picking Morewood E and New House. From those who have seen them, what are some other good selections for freshman housing?</p>
<p>Have a look at the virtual tours here to get some idea for yourself:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.housing.cmu.edu/Tours/%5B/url%5D">http://www.housing.cmu.edu/Tours/</a></p>
<p>I realize that it can be difficult to tell how big things really are from just this, but from what we saw and the posts from CMU students we did what we could.</p>
<p>(Cold's easy. Fleece and more layers of cold! ;))</p>
<p>Hey, the Morewood E room looks really nice. Much nicer than New House. That one looks like a frigging prison cell (an upscale one). Donner's not too bad either. Although I think freshmen are a minority in Donner. Any other predominantly-freshman houses?</p>
<p>Anyone here going to Henderson (healthy living)? That's where I stayed when I slept over and I thought it was pretty nice (plus I was probably already going to do substance free housing). They have a floor for freshmen too.</p>