I have a couple questions regarding housing at the university:
I have the same question. When my DD looked at the housing application, it appears that you must choose a LLC , and I did not think that was the case before. What I had read for previous years was that you could choose one, especially to help ensure that you get a particular dorm choice, but then otherwise you put your dorms of choice, ranking in order of preference. Other than Honors or Capstone, which we’re still waiting to hear about, my daughter is not necessarily interested in a LLC, but then feels like she has no choice in a dorm at all if she doesn’t put one. Hopefully someone knows the answer–otherwise we’ll call to the housing office at some point and try to get some clarity.
Well if you look at list there is a men’s community and women’s community as option. These don’t seem to have a focus based on major and would be pretty generic as far as I can tell. The women’s community is housed in the renovated (within last few years) women’s quads. I lived there many moons ago and it is great location and central to everything.
I’m going to the admitted student day on Saturday so I’ll ask about it then.
Unfortunately, I’m a male so women’s community isn’t really an option for me. The men’s community is in McBryde and everyone I know who has lived there has described it as a nightmare so I don’t know if I’m very interested in the men’s community.
Same here for DS…he will be going to Adm Students day this saturday. I can report what he learns.
Yes–please do ask and report back. DD will not be attending any of the admitted students’ days.
I would just email or call the housing folks. They are very helpful. Know that if your child gets a Capstone offer they will adjust housing for Capstone later. The Capstone dorm is huge, and getting housing there isn’t a problem. My son’s friend accepted and paid his deposit in January. My son accepted in April, and I paid the housing deposit on the day of the deadline. Both are in Capstone, a few floors apart. Congrats to everyone who is accepting offers and paying housing deposits. You are done!! (for now…)
I heard that they assign housing based on date of application submittal. In other words, give the kids who say applied in Sept their first choices more so than kids who applied in January. True??
@x2018x. We heard that too. My son applied on the last day of RD last year, and paid his (housing deposit) on the last possible day. Got his first choice which was Capstone. But he did receive his assignment later than folks who paid deposits earlier. I would not pay it early if you aren’t sure that you are attending, but I would get it out of the way when you are sure.
Yes, according to them when we toured AND on their site, preference goes to date of application to the school, not housing application. We got our application in over the summer with that in mind so hopefully it means she actually gets one of her top choices in housing!
My son applied early action last year and he still got his 5th choice for housing …McBryde.
i asked my question there and they said you must choose an llc and if you put general community they are going to randomly assign you to a residence hall. luckily i fell in love with the international house at maxcy college so i believe i’ll be doing that but i figured i’d report back with what they said 
Thanks @dc4752. Interesting that you must choose an LLC now. Still hoping for Capstone and then the decision for housing is easy.
You MUST choose a LLC. However, if you really want a certain dorm, be sure to choose a LLC that is associated with that dorm. Your level of involvement in the LLC is all up to you.
On the website: Every residence hall on campus is home to one or more student learning communities. You’ll choose your preferred communities as part of your housing application and then answer a short series of questions about your choices.
Did they happen to mention anything about East Quad? My D has been in boarding school for the last 3 years and would REALLY like her own room in one of the apartment style dorms if it works out. It doesn’t look like there is an LLC for East Quad so I’m wondering how you get in there? I guess we’ll wait on Capstone and then call the Housing office to talk about the best options for her. @hbh2017, what we were told is that it goes by the date that they receive your application, so if he got her app in later in the EA pool, it may have bumped him down in the selection order. But 5th choice definitely seems very low for an EA applicant!
Regarding east quad: My son is a freshman in the Capstone dorm this year and learned from the on campus housing office that East Quad will be the business LLC next fall. However, I don’t think that is is impossible for non-business students to be assigned to this LLC. Has your daughter considered the women’s quad? It appears very nice and is very conveniently located near Russell, the library and academic buildings. Perhaps another option in her top 5 preferences.
So right now, South Quad is business, so if that changes to East Quad, I wonder if they’re moving a different LLC into South? She would really rather not be in an all-girls dorm–again, been there/done that for the last three years. She has a lot of guy friends and would like seeing more than just women in the common areas of the dorm! I also don’t see a women’s dorm that is apartment-style. I think we’ll definitely need to call the school to get the lowdown and explain her situation to see how she can best go about getting a single. Unless of course she gets Capstone, which would make her very happy, and she’d be fine sharing a room again in that case.
One more ? if anyone knows–the housing site lists Park Place apartments as available for “all students” but then we saw somewhere else that it was not available for Freshman. Anyone know the scoop?
It is highly unlikely for a Freshman to get a single room as upperclassman have priority for all of those. The exceptions is for medically necessary situations(which of course must be proven in detail). It is also extremely unlikely for a Freshman to get into the apartment style dorms as again, upperclassman have priority. For 650 Lincoln, Honors College students have priority there. If there are Freshman assigned there, that would only happen if the HC dorm was full.