Hello,
I was admitted a while ago and still unsure if I want to attend. If I do attend, I am interested in the Living/Learning Communities. 1) are the living and learning communities an option for freshmen or just for upperclassmen? The application for these communities expires Feb. 6. 2) do I have to send an enrollment deposit before applying or can I apply without fully committing?
Thanks so much!
@greekopoulos
I am not aware of these deadlines. Can you provide a link?
I’m thinking that must be a typo. I know that is the deadline for current students to apply. If you click the link the application for new students is not even available yet. When my son applied to Wall last year it was much later in the spring. You can contact Residence Life to see when they will be accepting applications from new students.
To further address your questions- I’m pretty sure you have to commit before you can apply to live in one of the Learning Communities. As I said my son applied much later in the spring, I think it was May.
awesome, thank you so much!
I’m a current freshman, and yes, the application was for current students only. (Though you can apply later to live in greenbaum or wall) I live in greenbaum this year which I applied to last summer. The wall deadlines were about the same time. I would highly recommend living in an LLC, you get a suite with a bathroom rather than a community bath! I would actually suggest Wall over Greenbaum though, the rooms are bigger and there are more freshmen so people are overall more social with each other. Greenbaum is nice too though, and it just opened this year so you know it’s pretty clean! The other two LLCs, leadership and weatherhead/soho, are upperclassmen dorms so you can’t live in them.
As far as the deposit thing, I’m pretty sure the applications for freshmen came out after the May 1 deposit deadline.
Also a warning, if you have a specific person you want to room with, both of you have to get into the LLC to room together there.
Just for clarity, I think what @porquekay is calling an LLC are the dorms where the professors live as well, or what is known as Residential College style.
Does anyone know what the official options for freshman housing are? I know some people have mentioned Greenbaum and Weatherhead being options. Thank you!
Sharp, Monroe, Wall, Greenbaum, Butler, Patterson and JL for females. Weatherhead is Sophomore Honors.
Thank you! I am trying to decide between living in Butler and Greenbaum. Can someone give me some advice and insight?
Greenbaum is brand spanking new and suite style. It’s an LLC so you have to apply to live there (like Wall). The only drawback could be if you get a room on the Boot side of the building, it can be noisy. Butler is older, it’s the Honors dorm, traditional hall bath style.
Do you think the noise would outweigh the amenities that come with Greenbaum? Also, I notice it is a little out of the way, but with a campus as small as Tulane will it make too much of a difference?
Are you going to visit? Seeing the dorms in person might give you a better indication of what they are like. There are video tours of all the freshmen dorms (except Greenbaum since it’s new) on the Tulane website.
Out of the way is a relative term. It is closer to the main library than any other dorm, and along with JL closest to Newcomb Hall where a lot of classes are held, especially but not exclusively foreign language classes. Plus it will be pretty close to the new dining hall when it opens, although who knows where you will be living then. I think it will be 2 years before the new dining hall opens.
But the bottom line is that you are absolutely correct that with Tulane being a fairly compact campus, nothing is really far from anything. Besides, I’m really not sure that Greenbaum is further from the main academic (Gibson) quad than Butler. It might actually be closer. It is further from the Reilly Recreation Center and, of course, the current dining hall than Butler is.
But I agree with dolphnlvr that the main difference is the hall bath vs. suite bath arrangement. Note that hall baths are cleaned by Tulane services, while suite baths are your responsibility to keep clean. If that matters to you. That, and the fact that Greenbaum and Wall (and Weatherhead for sophomores) are Residential College style, meaning a prof and their family, if they have one, live in the dorm as well. They help coordinate activities and lectures for the dorm residents, and the dorm residents participate in the running of the dorm. That is not the case with Butler.
One of the biggest things that I like about Greenbaum is the public service LLC. Service is a major part of my life and I want to continue that in college. Plus Greenbaum is also very close to the theatre building (hopefully my minor).
Yes, that is true. Dixon Hall (the theater and music building), Newcomb Hall, and the Art Center are the buildings that border Newcomb Quad. It’s a very nice setting. Greenbaum and the main library are right behind Dixon, essentially.
My understanding is that Greenbaum is not strictly a freshman dorm. While Sharp, Monroe and Butler are.
That’s true, DebmomNY. Same with Wall, it has a mix. JL, the all female dorm, is mostly freshmen. There are a few upperclasswomen in the singles, but then again a few also can end up in Monroe, Sharp and Butler, but they are overwhelmingly freshmen. I also heard that the freshmen and sophomores in Greenbaum are in separate wings, but I don’t know if that is true.
Yes my son will be a sophomore and he was approved for Wall next year.