<p>My S received his admission letter last week (Hooray!) and now we are trying to figure out the housing situation. What is your recommendation on the best residence hall for a freshman? It looks like the new “The Village” is very nice, but farther from the main campus. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>Yeah, I got mine also and I am applying for housing even though I haven't made up my mind about which school to go to. I heard that on campus housing goes fast so it is better to secure it than to loose the chance at it. I have spent several weekends at Auburn with friends who already go there and this is what I know. The Village will be amazing but isn't as close as the other dorms...but neither is it far. The Hill is where the sorority dorms are and the quad is right in the center of the action. All of the dorms are standard dorms where you share a bathroom with a room next door, suite style I think they call it. Except for the apartment style ones called the extension. They are very scary and ghetto and most people I know who live in them hate them and try to move out if they can. Don't live in the extension!! Some of my friends live in apartments right next to campus and they are really nice. I also think that if you live in the Village that there is a bus system that will take you to different parts of campus on a pretty regular basis so walking isn't really an issue.</p>
<p>The village will be very nice and not really that far from main campus (I imagine there will be buses running pretty frequently out there, since that area used to be parking and there were buses that went there then). It is also going to be much more expensive that the older dorms.
The extension is closing next year anyway so you won't have to worry about the "scary ghetto" lol (they aren't really that bad, honestly. nowhere near as ghetto and crap as the old village was, which was still around when I was a freshman in 2005-06). </p>
<p>The Quad is the most convenient but they are also the smallest inside I think. The Hill is not bad; they are further away than the Quad but not super far (closer than the village) and they are definitely somewhat bigger than the Quad, or at least the one I was in on the hill was bigger than my quad dorm. The heat on the hill is really wonky though; you will go through the entire winter with your window up because the steam in the pipes makes everything retardedly hot and you will never actually turn on your heat because of this.</p>
<p>Also, the sororities are moving from the Hill to the new Village next year, freeing up alot of space at the hill. Also, I think they have made some more of the hill dorms co-ed since I lived there my freshman year. Then it was only Boyd and Sasnett but now I think it's like 3 or 4 more. The Quad is co-ed except for like 2 dorms which are freshman girls only.
Personally, out of all the on-campus housing I've lived in or had friends live in, I like the Quad the most. However, if you can both afford the Village and don't mind the slightly longer distance, it would definitely be nice to have your own room and a living room/kitchen.
Also, there are some off-campus apartments and dorms which are very close to main campus (closer than the village is). I live in one of these now. Freshmen are not required to live on-campus so this might also be an option.</p>
<p>Thanks for the great info aulostchick! Which dorms are freshman concentrated in, or is this not done? Also, if you are in the honors program are you guaranteed space in a particular dorm? If so, which one is that? Or should you request that dorm hoping to end up in the honors program?</p>
<p>Most people only live on campus their freshman year so I guess you could say pretty much all the dorms are mostly freshman. There are people who never live on campus and people who live there all four years, or somewhere in between too, though. (I, and some of my friends, lived on campus freshman and sophomore year, and after that moved into apartments near campus.)
As far as I know, you are not guaranteed a space in honors dorms if you are in the honors program. The honors dorms are the upper quad (broun, little, teague, and one more I can't remember the name of), but they are not reserved specifically for honors college. (You can "pull in" a non-honors roommate, for example.)</p>