<p>When and how are you supposed to turn in the housing application for CMU? Do we have to send in the deposit first before they give us the housing app? Or is there a way to send in the information online? When's the due date for that? </p>
<p>When do we know which house we got and our roommate?</p>
<p>And finally, do parents usually come for the moving-in day on August 17? After Aug. 17th, parents can leave right? since it's just tailored toward students for orientation week?</p>
<p>does anyone know where the housing application is for freshmans. nothign came with my welcome package and online only had the housing agreement and the upperclassman application</p>
<p>Parents usually come only for moving in day and then leave. In fact, when we dropped my son off this past August, the dorm (Mudge) had planned a student-only reception that evening, so we had to be gone by 6pm. The rest of freshman week has a variety of activities to help students meet each other, figure out the campus, be exposed to activities and get ready for an academically challenging (yet rewarding!) first year.</p>
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I have to say, I did not like this policy. For some people there are reasons they can't make the decision quickly. My son waited till the last minute to send in his deposit and consequently got one of the far away apartments. Luckily he actually likes having a huge room and doesn't mind the walk - so it worked out fine. He's staying in the same building next year.</p>
<p>I think only Morewood E tower is; Morewood A-D will be not-first-year because of the conversion of other housing areas to first year. Donner was entirely freshman only for the first time last year, Boss will be this year, and Scobell and Mudge will be next year. Conversion is a two year process in which they don't let people select rooms in buildings that will be only freshmen in the following year, so there are already more spaces for freshmen in Scobell and Mudge. Right now, the only way to live in Mudge is by already living there or being a freshman.</p>
<p>I lived in E tower for a year, and then A-D; quite frankly, E tower was better. My E tower room was bigger, and the shared hall bathrooms can actually be preferable. In my other room, we shared a bathroom with a pair of girls who always took long showers when I needed to use the restroom and/or was going to go to sleep. Sometimes the cleaning ladies wouldn't come for a week, and we would run out of toilet paper. In that room, the beds were bunked; I think there is only one room in E-tower with bunk beds.</p>
<p>If you think shared bathrooms are oh so horrible (and they're not), put Mudge as your first choice.</p>
<p>You'll get information about picking classes in the mail during the summer. It varies year to year and depends on what college you're in.</p>
<p>It's been a few yrs for my son, but he got his assignment, and roommate, around midsummer, like July. They contacted each other to see who was bringing what.</p>
<p>Yes parents are there for move-in. Probably most, unless geography prohibits (lots of internationals at CMU). I remember a line on the orientation schedule: around 5:00 move-in day, "Parents say goodbye". That was a good idea, to get rid of all us sobbing embarrassments at the same time so the kids could have some fun. The orientation is a good one...long, well organized and lots of fun (what he remembers ;)).</p>
<p>He was in Donner, second choice, deposited around April 5. Ugly on the outside but big rooms, convenient location, very social. He liked it.</p>