<p>So I'm definitely going to Chapel Hill, but I don't know much about the whole housing situation and dorms. How does it work? Do you fill out a questionnaire to get paired up with someone? Where are the best dorms?</p>
<p>Any current students or people who know about it care to share?</p>
<p>thanks.</p>
<p>Carolina's housing application is extremely general in terms of trying to pair those with like interests. Smoking and visitation preferences are really the only things taken into consideration along with room and suite mate preferences if they exist. If you have interest in a learning community those interests may be taken into consideration on the application as well.</p>
<p>As far as chosing a dorm goes, Carolina groups dorms in communities and you rank community preferences rather than individual dorms. The application on the internet allows you to choose two north campus communites and two south campus communities and then rank them accordingly. You can find out more about specific communities at the link below:</p>
<p>North Campus communities are considered as follows:</p>
<p>Old Upper: Mangum, Grimes, Ruffin, Manly, Old East and Old West
Old Lower: Aycock, Graham, Everett, Stacey, Lewis
Carmichael: Carmichael, Whitehead
Cobb: Cobb
Connor: Connor, Alexander, Winston, Joyner
Kenan: Spencer, Alderman, McIver, Kenan
Parker: Parker, Avery, Teague</p>
<p>South Campus Communites are:</p>
<p>Craige: Craige and Craige North
Ehringhaus: Ehaus, Ehaus South
Hinton James: Hinton James, HJ north (horton)
Morrison: Morrison, Hardin</p>
<p>Naturally many of these are next to impossible to get into as a freshman and South Campus is nearly dominated by freshman and suite style rooms while a large majority of north campus dorms are older and still have communal facilities.</p>
<p>Really? The freshman get suites. Thats sounds better than what most schools offer freshman.</p>
<p>I would like information on Granville Towers. We have toured GT and it was nice. Have talked to students who live there? They love it and they don't think it has taken away from their college experience. When we toured GT, we also walked from GT to north campus where most classes are. It is an easy walk on flat ground compared to south campus which it not flat ground. I read some posts that say it is a good hike, but I don't know what route they took. It is a five minute or at the most a 10 minute easy walk to classes. I have done the search on CC and read all the posts. Current residents of GT say the food is better or as good as food on campus. The price to stay at GT was cheaper than dorms last year and I am sure it is cheaper this year. I would like to know more from current GT residents or current UNC dorm residents - their thoughts on GT. Thanks for your time.</p>
<p>Freshman do in fact get suite styl dorms depending, of course, on where they live.<br>
The floor plans for the different dorms are at the link below:</p>
<p>My daughter and her roommate and another friend got into one of the new "super suites" in the renovated Morrison for next year. They are moving from north campus to south. Just because you're on north campus doesn't mean you won't have hikes to class -- especially with classes in the Stone Center and the Hanes Art Center which is on the opposite side of campus and near Franklin Street. They also prefer the Ramshead cafeteria to Lenoir and the wider variety of people you can meet on south campus. Even though Hinton James and Craige are still dumps, south campus in general isn't on the fringe of society like it was when I was a student there back in ancient times.
She will miss those nice new tennis courts next to her current dorm, though...</p>