<p>I was just wondering if anyone can help me out with my housing selection for next year? I checked out the website and I mean all the dorms seem pretty decent to me. Does anyone have any recommendations? The single most important thing to me is that I have a single room. This is a necessity. I'd like to be in a modern dorm or at least one with clean/new amenities. While I would like to be in a dorm where I can meet people and have fun, I want to be able to study during the week without alot of distractions. Price is not really an issue in my consideration.</p>
<p>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>Are you going to be a traditional first-year student at Columbia next year? If so, you should have already selected housing about a month and a half ago.</p>
<p>They're all the same price. Are you going to be a freshman?</p>
<p>just write singles as all your top choices, so like</p>
<p>john jay single 1
furnald single 2
hartley-wallach single 3
john jay double 4
furnald double 5
hartley-wallach double 6
carman coed 7
carman single-sex 8</p>
<p>carman wouldn't be right for you, I think, partly because it's all doubles and partly because it will be harder to study in your room during the week (you'd use the library)</p>
<p>speaking of housing. . . I had a dream about it last night, arriving at a dorm called "hartley" that can't possibly actually exist because it was way way tooo nice, way too fancy for college students to be living in (though I wish), and for some reason my entire senior class was living in it along with some other random students I know. This doesn't diminish my desire to live in hartley, though, even though it and any other dorm can't ever live up to the one in this weird dream, which featured a ghost (?) in this enormous library on the second floor, the floor my bedroom and the buffet and bar cafeteria and my entire grade were also on, but the ghost (?) was really a prank played by a violinist friend of mine who filmed the event and then laughed at us all, and the ghost flew around with pots and these frisbee-like bowls that were hurled around the huge library, and I couldn't get the key to my room, I discovered, until I gave the secret password by asking the lady at the front desk about her life history. . . .</p>
<p>Wow jono, thats a little...umm...odd...but we'll go with it. Hartley actually has wood floors in some of the dorms and some are also two floors. </p>
<p>I actually think Jono's rank list was actually my list.</p>
<p>GT2, Furnald is the quietest and nicest frosh dorm on campus, but you do live with sophs and it is not a very social dorm. JJ is more social and is all frosh and is decently social. Carman is a very social dorm that is loud, but has lots of building and floor pride.</p>
<p>Carman may be loud, but one of its advantages is that there are two doors separating you from the hallway (which is usually where the noise happens). There's the door between you and your suite's "hallway," and a door between that and the regular hallway; this setup works as quite a good insulator. No other freshman dorm has that quality, so if you happen to live with a particularly noisy floor, there isn't very much you can do to keep yourself away from the distractions. Students had no problem keeping up with their work (that is, if thyey wanted to do it).</p>
<p>thanks... i am entering as a transfer to columbia college. i don't really know what i am. i should be a junior but i took some time off in between semesters and stuff. im probably closer to being a sophomore. i may even be a freshman depending on how much of my credit transfers. </p>
<p>so john jay, furnald, and hartley are the only dorms with singles im guessing? ill make those my top 3 picks. </p>
<p>dont even get me started on dreams... the other night i dreamt that i went on vacation after i sent my deposit in and i didnt fill out a form or something and i lost my spot.</p>
<p>If you don't have freshman standing you can't choose John Jay because that's a solely first-year dorm. Furnald is for freshmen-sophomores only, but it also happens to be the most difficult dorm to get into for sophs. By now, I'm sure all the spots are taken up, as they reserve about 100 for second-years and the rest for freshmen. Freshmen can "choose" to go into Hartley, but upperclassmen have to apply, because both Hartley and Wallach consist the "Living and Learning Center," which is supposed to involve kind of an upper-classmen-teach-freshmen-the-ways-of-Columbia kind of deal (even if in reality it's not like that). The application for the LLC was due last March.</p>
<p>Since you're a transfer student, I'm really not sure what housing is available to you. The vast majority of sophomores live in ither Schapiro or McBain (which, I'm sorry to say, have almost all doubles). I'm fairly certain you'll end up there; if you're a junior, you'll probably get a single though. But then again I don't know how the transfer process really works.</p>
<p>And, just out of curiosity, isn't one of the conditions for transferring that you will have enough credits to pass your freshman year (32)? My best guess would be that since Columbia accepted you as a transfer and didn't make you apply as a freshman, they made some sort of implicit guarantee that you'll have at least sophomore standing, since you can't transfer as a first-year.</p>
<p>thanks alot for the help. the only condition for applying as a transfer is that you have completed 2 semesters as a full-time student. i have completed 3, but it is yet to be determined how much credit i will receive for the courses i took. i was sort of joking around - im sure ill be at least a sophomore (including AP credit and stuff). which is rather funny considering i have friends who graduated high school in 2003 with me and will be graduating college early next year. </p>
<p>Furnald looks so nice, I am going to make it my first choice. Although even the housing website notes that it is one of the most requested dorms on campus. as long as i have a single and am relatively close to campus that is okay. i think things will fall in my favor since i am, technically, considered a junior transfer by age which is noted on my credit evaluation form. I would also imagine that they give some sort of preference to incoming transfer students who have the hardest time getting acclimated, meeting friends, etc.</p>