Housing

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<p>So, how does this work for Freshman students?</p>

<p>Do we get to pick which dorm we want?</p>

<p>Also, which dorms are the social epicenter of the campus?</p>

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<p>This is the latest info for housing. [Housing</a> Agreement - Denison University](<a href=“Denison A-Z”>Denison University) I know when DD1 first moved there, freshman Pascal Carter winners were housed in Beta House (with the intent it be a quiet dorm for studying). </p>

<p>Here is a recommendation from last year: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/denison-university/688304-denison-dorms.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/denison-university/688304-denison-dorms.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>My son had to fill out a housing survey/questionnaire (for freshman), he ended up at East hall which is a substance free housing for first year student. Maybe you can put your preferred dorm on the form.</p>

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<p>My son ended up in Shorney. I don’t think you got to select your dorm. Once you actually select DU you get a whole box of paperwork which includes info on dorms and roomies. You can request a specific roommate but it’s not a 100 percent type of certainty I think.
I felt that DU was pretty good on all the freshman details with their paperwork and responsiveness to questions.</p>

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<p>My son also lived in Shorney, which he asked for after he went to June Orientation, along with his choice of roommate, whom he also met at JuneO. </p>

<p>Smith and Shorney are the two biggest freshman dorms, located next to Curtis Dining Hall and very near library - this is a good thing for freshmen :). </p>

<p>And if you can’t tell yet, JuneO is VERY VALUABLE – go to the earliest session you can bc this is when you register for classes!</p>

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<p>Esquette is right, JuneO is very valuable, though they say it is not mandatory. My son could not attend due to a time conflict with his high school award ceremony. He end up registered by phone with his assigned advisor which was towards the end of the registration process. He did not get into ANY of the classes he wanted except one class in his major, even that was not what he preferred. So his first semester was quite miserable.</p>

<p>My son’s first year at East Hall was not bad, he liked it, wonder why he was not ended up at Shorney. His roomate was from Ohio, they got along pretty good. I guess they try to match up students with similar hobbies based on the questionnaire/survey.</p>

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If it’s any solace, ours went to the last June-O. A really good experience and valuable in a number of ways. Met her roommate (they requested each other …didn’t work so well :(, but live and learn:cool: …), registered for courses, none of which were her preferences (Esquette’s counsel: Good…go early and often:confused:); checked out dorms and determined pref there too (Shorney (West or South Quad?), a very good frosh choice for all reasons Esq. notes ;)). She’s been in East this and next. Likes them both.</p>

<p>As I’ve bellyached before, the class registration is our really substantive issue that I’m tempted to lable “false adverising.” It just seems way more painful than my memory resurrects (good choice of Word for this week! :D), and belies the implication of being at a DU. In reality, it’s where economics and strategies (i.e. investing much of endowment in scholarships rather than faculty #s) get into reality clash, real life exposing the truth that we “can’t have everything” maybe? In the end, it seems to be working out. But nonetheless, it’s grief, especially for an entity pitching “personalized, individualized, customized” etc.</p>

<p>But DU is very flexible on housing …locales, roommates, etc. And if you’d rather not know if the baby’s a boy or girl? Well, they’ll be happy to surprise as well. Sometimes that’s best, it seems.</p>

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<p>My daughter found her roomie through a Facebook group for incoming freshmen (I think) and they requested each other. We were skeptical. The housing staff was very helpful and even reviewed their compatibility based upon the guidelines they use for assigning roommates and declared them OK. They are still good friends and got along great as far as we know.</p>