<p>Hi all :)</p>
<p>I have done a little research and found Allison Residential Community, Seabury Hall, and Elder Residential Community to be pretty great! I wanted to ask your thoughts or suggestions on housing at Northwestern! </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Seabury, you should know, isn’t available for Freshman. Allison is considered by many that I’ve talked to, to be one of the best, if not the best.</p>
<p>R U Grad Student? Seabury Hall is for Grad students.</p>
<p>[Seabury:</a> Graduate Housing - Northwestern University](<a href=“Residential Services - Northwestern University”>Residential Services - Northwestern University)</p>
<p>I think the way it currently works for freshmen - You get put into housing, you don’t choose housing, unless you are applying for a res college.</p>
<p>As far as I know, you fill out a mini questionnaire that asks things like do you want co-ed, or single gender dorm, south vs north, large, medium, or small. Then you also do residential colleges, or residential communities. So while you may not get to pick a specific dorm, there are ways to get where you want to be.</p>
<p>Crimsonstained7 has it right. You do get to rank your top five residential colleges, though. Those are Willard, Shepard, Jones, Slivka, etc.</p>
<p>You don’t choose residential communities, those are what we call the regular dorms. That’s determined by your survey responses.</p>
<p>So there is no way that I can specifically apply to the Allison Residential Community?</p>
<p>That’s right. You pick ‘large dorm’ and ‘south campus’ on the housing survey, and you hope.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, very few of D’s friends got their top dorm choices freshman year – several got placed in dorms that weren’t even on their lists – yet they all had a great first year! D was put in her last-choice dorm, but really enjoyed living there and made many great friends. She liked the location so much that her off-campus housing is only a block away. ;-D</p>
<p>Don’t get too attached to any dorms you put on your list, and keep an open mind next year. You will have a great time wherever you live at NU!</p>
<p>MomCares is absolutely right. I’ll also throw in my 2 cents --</p>
<p>You will make friends and have a good experience wherever you live, so long as you put effort into meeting people and going to things. I lived in Sargent my freshman year, which was nowhere on my list of housing preferences and was on the opposite end of campus from where I had wanted to be placed. And yet, I made an awesome group of friends there, who are still some of my best friends at Northwestern – just saw them all last night. We’re all juniors now.</p>
<p>Best of luck! NU is an awesome place to be, no matter where you live.</p>