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<p>Haha probably not. Notice how spiffy the admissions website is. That’s because they CARE about attaining prospective applications. Once you’re matriculated, they don’t care what the hell you think.</p>
<p>lordof …: I wouldn’t worry too much about your house being “gayest”. Except for the Snitchcock houses, most UChicago houses have about 50% turnover every year, so character changes pretty quickly.</p>
<p>Where I went to college, we had a four-year residential college system. The college to which I was assigned was basically the English Majors On Acid college. By the middle of my sophomore year, it was firmly established as the Jock College, the result of a three-year run of more than an average number of good football players, a couple of Olympians, and bunch of not-so-previously-athletic women who fell in love with hockey and started a team. The actual demographics may have only shifted 5% through random variation, but the reputation changed radically. And that was with 25% annual turnover.</p>
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<p>RHs with dogs also makes for happy students… 
Google images for your dorm. We found stuff there (including old house-built websites) that had info and pics.</p>
<p>B-J, Chamberlin House, Double!
Beyond excited.</p>
<p>@lordofthespider:</p>
<p>A lot of these proclamations (“jock house,” “gay house,” “arty house,”) are made by one or two people – without any basis. The housing selections are completely random, and the only thing I can tell that housing pays attention to is sex, location, and roommate preferences.</p>
<p>I sympathize with you, but I assure you that your orientation won’t be an issue. For many of my gay friends, I didn’t know they were gay until they updated their relationship statuses on facebook. When I was in housing, I knew a bunch of openly gay people who were very much a part of the house community. </p>
<p>What can be awkward is inter-house dating-- “house-cest”/ and roommate escapades-- “sexile.” Those situations are equally awkward in both homo and hetero circumstances.</p>
<p>Also, I’m sure the college expects a “summer melt” of students who have deposited but don’t show up.</p>
<p>I have no idea why they did this, but a lot of people who asked for doubles (putting it as their first or second priority in the housing questionnaire) got singles in South Campus. (And incoming freshmen were told they would only be given doubles.) But then they gave doubles to many who put getting a single as a top priority. Very odd…</p>
<p>Also, some students who requested certain roommates either got doubles without those roommates or got stuck with singles. It really doesn’t make much sense to me, UNLESS… the University of Chicago wanted to place students out of their comfort zones. That was my first thought upon seeing that many students weren’t getting what they requested.</p>
<p>^I sincerely hope that’s not the excuse they use. That would make their little questionnaires completely pointless, as they’d just be doing the opposite of what the students say. Now I feel kind of guilty about getting my first choice, especially if some got put in the International House. But I guess that’s just the way it works. I was EA and deposited in early April.</p>
<p>Yeah, the people I know who got placed in the International House had very late deposits. Hopefully what unalove said is true and more spots open up, though. I still don’t know how they’re going to keep admitting over 1300 people a year. Maybe with the new required unlimited dining plan for those enrolled in housing, people will start migrating out. What’s confusing is, that’s exactly the opposite of what the administration said they wanted.</p>
<p>Phuriku – agree with you about the unlimited meal plan having the unintended effect of driving folks off campus. It’s costing us almost $2k vs. what the minimum plan S would have otherwise chosen for this year. The unlimited is SOOOO not worth it for this kid.</p>
<p>As for the singles/doubles issue, I also wonder if time of deposit was a factor.</p>
<p>“Summer melt” is a known phenomena in the admissions and college administration world, for example:
[In</a> an Uncertain Summer, Sweating Over Enrollment ‘Melt’ - Admissions & Student Aid - The Chronicle of Higher Education](<a href=“http://chronicle.com/article/In-an-Uncertain-Summer/47100/]In”>http://chronicle.com/article/In-an-Uncertain-Summer/47100/)</p>
<p>So it seems to me that they are intentionally overcorrecting so as not to underenroll.</p>
<p>If you are staying in i-house for now, no sweat! The facilities are nice and there is an undergraduate population staying there as well. A lot of speakers come to i-House and it’s convenient to a lot of campus amenities.</p>