<p>Do any of you parents of upper classmen know how this works for rising sophomores. My son and some friends want Quiet housing (YES!) but he's not sure how any of this lottery stuff works at DU. Are these separate lotteries? Any experiences with Quiet housing buildings?</p>
<p>It looks as though quiet housing goes first so your DS should be OK. [Lottery</a> Information - Denison University](<a href=“Denison A-Z”>Denison University)
I do know that the roommates get to use the first lottery number any of them has to claim a room.</p>
<p>Thanks for that page link. Looks like that quiet housing might be a good deal for the boy in that it happens to be break housing too. We are out in the wilds of rural North Central Nebraska and getting home for Thanksgiving didn’t happen this year. We have some family on the East coast that got an extra guest at their table this year but, staying for a whole week wasn’t really what he wanted to do.</p>
<p>Quiet/sub-free housing goes first, but unfortunately my D is way down in the lottery so she doesn’t think she has a chance at any of it. She’s pretty bummed.</p>
<p>Quiet/Sub-free housing lottery is scheduled for tonight. Did her roommate have a higher number or is she going for a single? It is tough if you get a low number. My son, who will be a senior, was not lucky with his lottery number the last 2 years, but his roommate was, so he has been in Quiet/Sub-free housing since freshman year. </p>
<p>I just found out my son did not get into the apartment they want, though his roommate had a fairly high number. We are trying to decide “who” will be paying for the additional cost for the apartment living vs. a double room, him or me! It costs $2,200 more per year for the apartment, you get your own room, a kitchen to share, I asked him, “when was the last time you cooked?!” </p>
<p>Zetesis, I hope your daughter gets into the dorm she likes. Good luck!</p>
<p>Just chatted with my son…He had hopes of being in a 6 man “room” because his friend had a good #…they thought that the Quiet/Subfree lottery was all years mixed. I think they are a little disappointed because they did not get the room they wanted but they did get a double in a subfree. Hope it is quiet enough to study in</p>
<p>D’s number wasn’t very good, and her roommate’s was worse. They tried a number of things – double in sub-free; a suite with others who had higher numbers; but got shut out.</p>
<p>D is in a subfree dorm this year – but there are enough kids in the dorm who are there just because they like the “quiet” and “clean” atmosphere, but they don’t abide by the “subfree” commitment. Daughter does; and now she didn’t get any of the “special interest” housing – whereas there are kids from her dorm who fall into the above named category who did! </p>
<p>Nothing to be done, I guess, but she and I are both very disappointed.</p>
<p>I suppose you could get stuck all four years with a lousy lottery number?</p>
<p>Lemme try a positive spin. These situations are indeed, momentarily painful. It seems most of us …and most of them … will quickly get beyond these disappointments and circumstances. While it’s not much compensation at the moment, in the end, sometimes there’s a better scenario coming than had been imagined, planned, hoped for. </p>
<p>I’m not trying to patronize. Just remembering exactly what this was like “back in the day.” Try to remember …</p>
<p>Rarely did it not workout …and when it did not? Adjustments and fleeting time resolved it all. Can you imagine OUR parents fretting about this on our behalf? Me neither. This is like saying, “bummer, got to drive the Caddy tonite. Wanted the Jag.”</p>
<p>Kids are totally maleable and toughern we think. Welcome to the real world. ;)</p>
<p>^^^Absolutely.
My #1 son graduating Carleton in June, (she adds with pride and relief 
) had bad housing lottery #s all 3 years. His sophomore dorm was pretty depressing and, significantly for a Minnesota winter, far from all the action. Even as a senior, he didn’t really get the primo real estate he hoped for. Yet, I don’t think it colored his college career in any depressing shades of gray. If anything, it made his roomies more creative in their use of space.
My Denison son and I were wondering if this was our family “curse” but he knows his sophomore digs will definitely be better than his brothers. If the scale on the floor plans are accurate, it looks like the rooms are pretty sizeable in most of these dorm rooms, compared to Shorney, anyway.
It’s all good!</p>
<p>DD1 was fortunate and she got a campus apt with three roommates. She has already spoken with DW about what kitchen items she can carry off (and fortunately she DOES cook). I think this just accelerates the “outfitting the first apt” stage.</p>
<p>Well, maybe next year …</p>
<p>^^ It helped that DD is a rising senior so they had first choice.</p>
<p>I looked again at floorplans…
They say that each 1/16th of an inch = 1 foot. If this is really accurate then it looks like next year’s room is 24’x24’. That seems really big to me.
They don’t appear to have posted the floor plans (that I can see anyway) for Shorney so I can’t compare and see if that is accurate. I know that that room is certainly not that big!
Do any of you know if that scaling is correct?</p>
<p>My son went from Shorney to Crawford for soph yr, and his room is much bigger. Not sure how much you want to depend on those room plans though. Best to try to scope it out sometime before end of this yr. </p>
<p>You can do amazing things with creative use of lofting, underbed storage, futons, etc. Son’s room this yr has been great, very popular - undoubtedly due to large HDTV - he has his priorities, you know </p>
<p>I HIGHLY recommend an amazingly versatile, good looking, and reasonably priced shelving system I found at Lowe’s in Heath (we have the same in our hometown store). Choose your shelf and legs (really poles) size and finish, then screw them together with no hardware at all. And they disassemble just as easily, leaving flat shelves to conveniently cart/store. Next yr the same shelves can be reconfigured to fit whatever the layout demands. Hold lots of weight and look as good as “real” furniture. Have used them in three college dorm rooms to rave reviews. </p>
<p>He’s in limbo for jr yr bc he’s going abroad in the fall. Keeping his fingers crossed, but it all seemed to work out well for his friends who came back for spring semester this yr.</p>
<p>NEValu – where did you find floor plans?</p>
<p>You have to have a guest login setup to that my.denison.edu or have your kid give you their login. from there you have a link to floor plans.
I always thought it ridiculous that we pay the bills but have to ask for special access to see grades and billing and the like.</p>
<p>I don’t care so much about seeing grades (she tells us pretty much everything), but would like to see room layouts … How do you get a “guest log in”?</p>
<p>I think that the student has to log in and create it from their mydenison page…</p>
<p>Ah. Well, I’ll leave"mydenison" for her … :-)</p>
<p>Well, they are not very detailed plans anyway…They basically just give the positioning of the room #s and the dimension can be figured out with a ruler (assuming they are accurate…24x24 just seems really large to me)</p>