<p>I was recently accepted to Grinnell and wish to apply for on-campus housing. How do I go about this? Thanks :)</p>
<p>If you log onto PioneerWeb, you should be able to access the housing form (it’s under the My Organizations Plus heading). I’m heading to Grinnell in the fall as well, I look forward to meeting you there!</p>
<p>I think they will also mail you info about this. All first year students get on-campus housing. You will probably be able to get it for all 4 years.</p>
<p>I look forward to meeting you, too, Johnny!</p>
<p>bethievt, so even if I’m super late to turn in my housing form, I will still get on-campus housing for sure because I will be a freshman?</p>
<p>Yes, you will get on-campus housing if you have been accepted. I don’t think the school will have sent out the housing forms yet. Accept your place in next year’s class, send in your deposit and they will send you info about housing.</p>
<p>You have to live on Campus the first two years. So the worst can happen that you fail to fill in the housing form and are placed with someone completely random</p>
<p>I’m a junior trying to decide about applying to Grinnell ED or RD next year. When I visited in February it looked to me like most floors in the dorms have male and female rooms either side by side or separated in sections, with separate baths by gender. Is that right? And, is there something called gender neutral housing, too, and if so how is that different?</p>
<p>^ except for a few floors most are coed, with either having bathrooms separated by male/female or gender-neutral. Most floors get to vote on this on the beginning of the year. The only floors that don’t are single-sex or gender-neutral. Gender-neutral basically means that the bathrooms are not separated and that on these floors you can opt to live with someone of the opposite sex, or to make it more precise you do not have to identify with any given gender as far as rooming goes. As a returning student you can opt to live on a floor like that, as a freshman you have to specifically request it. I was placed on gender-neutral, without ever having requested it. If you are placed on gender-neutral floors in your freshmen year you will most likely still have a roommate of the same sex. The only reason my roommate is a guy, is that my first roommate left and I had to find a new roommate. You will not be placed to room with someone of the opposite sex unless you request it.
As far as I am aware there are currently 6 floors that are gender-neutral. This is going to be expanded, with all co-ops, all apartments, all language and project houses being gender-neutral in addition to Lazier 1st, Cowles 1st and all of Loose South and Rawson.</p>