<p>well i got my housing papers...and they put me in balch, and i have a single...
can i change? cause i don't want to live alone first year, and i don't want to be in an all-girls dorm.....</p>
<p>You can try for a direct transfer--find a girl in a more social room w/ a roommate who wants to be in a balch single.</p>
<p>You can also request a change when you get there. The advice from others has been that "balch isn't bad the way it sounds" and also to wait a week or two to see if you like it because you could change your mind.</p>
<p>it sucks even more when you haven't received your assignment yet.</p>
<p>Yeh... the website says not to call, too, so I waited until today before calling, only to find out that "I hadn't submitted the housing app." I was about to argue, but re-navigated to the online submission site only to find that there are 643024303948029384029438320984 extra steps to submit the forms you've filled out. So yeh: did the form, "didn't send" it, am probably going to end up camping in the gorge first semester. I don't understand how anyone as dumb as I am could even have gotten in.</p>
<p>If it were me I'd mostly be concerned if I was going to be in a dorm with a lot of other freshman. You'll make a ton of friends in your suite/floor/dorm. </p>
<p>I wouldn't be in a big rush to switch out of a single ... I'd suggest talking to your friends who have been in college a year or two and asking them if they'd recommend switching out of a single ... I'll bet most say stay in a single. (Roommates can cause a lot of issues and you can make friends close by without all the compatibility risks)</p>
<p>I was a Cornellie many moons ago but most of my friends who were in Balch loved it there ... big rooms with semi-private bathrooms. Cornell is something like 60/40 men to women so generally women have no shortage of male friends.</p>
<p>"Yeh... the website says not to call, too, so I waited until today before calling, only to find out that "I hadn't submitted the housing app." I was about to argue, but re-navigated to the online submission site only to find that there are 643024303948029384029438320984 extra steps to submit the forms you've filled out. So yeh: did the form, "didn't send" it, am probably going to end up camping in the gorge first semester. I don't understand how anyone as dumb as I am could even have gotten in."</p>
<p>i'm sure i sent mine. i have the print out. life sucks....</p>
<p>Don't feel bad. My son would have been camping right next to you if I had not sent in his housing form.</p>
<p>I wouldnt turn down the single right away. I am only going to be a senior in high school, but from what I have heard, many people say that they wish for a single only because you still have two people as neighbors so you will have friends plus your living by yourself. But I guess it is a matter of personal preference.</p>
<p>Grr, wish I could trade with ya...I'm a transfer, though. I've got a double in the Transfer Center when I requested a single. :/</p>
<p>i just got my stuff.Yeah i got a double in the transfer center too. I wanted a single. oh well.</p>
<p>I orginally wanted a double, but now I'm pretty happy with my single...privacy is nice</p>