<p>Does anyone know if Wash U assigns rooms on a first come first served basis or randomly? In other words, since it's already the end of April and I haven't yet sent in my deposit, should I even bother asking for a traditional room or will they all be assigned by now?</p>
<p>Also, has anyone had a triple room that can comment on it? I've never talked to anyone with one before.</p>
<p>I asked them about it.
I sent them an email, but didn't receive a reply for a couple of days, and decided to give them a call to ask some questions, including the above.
The answer to the aforementioned question was "no."
However, I got a reply later on saying that the order which they receive the housing forms will affect the decision!
In other words, I'm not sure. (sorry for being so unhelpful)</p>
<p>But I think it's more probable that when would matter.</p>
<p>It always varies on whether traditional or new rooms are in higher demand, so pick what you truly want, and hope it works out.</p>
<p>just got home from visiting campus, they said, "we dont assign anyone to rooms until we get all applications." (in other words not until may 1)</p>
<p>also 90% of students request modern dorms and only about 50% get them (just thought id add that in)</p>
<p>i will be so ****ed if i don't get a modern dorm</p>
<p>i put mine as </p>
<p>1) Modern 2
2) Modern 3</p>
<p>i hope I get 1 of those 2</p>
<p>Are you sure? When I visited a few weeks ago my tour guide said that since there were only 2 or 3 traditional dorms left and a lot of people want them, that it's MUCH easier to get into the modern dorms. I believe she even said that if you express a preference for a modern dorm you are almost guaranteed of getting it. So one of our sources is wrong.</p>
<p>well i know any freshman who requests a single is going to get a traditional dorm because those are the only ones that they allow freshman to have singles in (gotta wait until sophomore yr for those suite style modern singles). I know my first choice was a modern double and I think the second was a modern triple...not sure though, anyhoo...im hoping a lot of people wanted singles so I can get that modern double or triple, i already know who my roommates are going to be (mutual requestS)</p>
<p>i spoke directly in person with a representative from the housing directory on the South 40 and she said only about 50% of those who request modern dorms will get them.</p>
<p>i wonder how they decide who gets what, do they randomly pull apps or what?</p>
<p>I guess we'll just have to wait and see. I find it almost impossible to believe that only 50% of people get new dorms. There are only a few old dorms which I'm guessing hold a few hundred people. That means the large majority of kids get thrown in one of the dozen new dorms. What the rep told you doesn't make any sense.</p>
<p>What you have to take into account is that there's a good 3000-4000 other students living on campus (the rest of the student body)...and it's a good bet that the majority of them take up modern dorm space. So that leaves only a small proportion of the modern residential colleges open to freshmen. Maybe that explains it, I don't know.</p>
<p>^i do see what you are saying; however, i do believe that pretty much all junior and seniors and a good number of sophomores live in the villiage and not the south 40, thus i think there are a good number of modern dorms on the 40 available to freshman</p>
<p>the freshmen and upperclassmen aren't able to live in the same dorms anyway, so where the upperclassmen live is irrelevant. (But I definitely wouldn't say that most of jrs and seniors live in the village... most live in Milbrook, if they're still on campus, with a few in the village, and a few on the 40)</p>
<p>Haha. I requested traditional...</p>
<p>This year there were 5 traditional freshmen dorms, 4 next year. That's still ~600 freshmen who end up living in traditional dorms.</p>
<p>when i was there, i stayed in the modern double, and loved it. i am just so grossed out by the idea of communal bathrooms. (needing shower shoes is tantamount to needing protection from whatever grodiness is growing on the shower floors. ew!)</p>
<p>Are the communal bathrooms split into girls and guys? Or is it a free for all?</p>
<p>there's one guys bathroom and one girls bathroom per floor in the traditional dorms. </p>
<p>and the shower shoes thing... yeah, it seems gross that you need them, but most people i knew in new dorms wore them in their bathrooms anyway... you still share with 3 other people. And actually what's more gross is all the people walking around and hanging out in the hallways in their pajamas with bare feet on the carpet... at least the shower stalls are disinfected! :)</p>