<p>I found the housing at BU rated at D+ at the ************** website. This might not be a reliable source, so I was wondering if anyone could tell me how bad it is?</p>
<p>And also is it the case that students may get housing that is more expensive than their choices? I will only be able to live in the cheapest assignment (the double, triple or quad dorm) and I hope they don’t assign me a more expensive one as I will not be able to afford it.</p>
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<p>Usually you won’t get housing that’s more expensive than you asked for. Standard doubles (also triples and quads) in a dorm-style residence are the cheapest options possible, and they are also the most widely available & easiest to get into, so don’t worry about randomly getting placed in, say, a single in an apartment (which would be a lot more expensive) because those are a lot harder to come by and also are usually taken up first by the upperclassmen with better housing numbers.</p>
<p>If you select a larger dorm in your choices, you’ll be in the normal rooms. </p>
<p>As you go on, BU has a lot of variety in housing and the cheaper option overall is an apartment because you don’t buy a meal plan. The apartment itself is more, but you do save. BU has a lot of apartments and juniors and seniors get them. </p>
<p>The most expensive housing options are the StuVi mid-rise apartments. </p>
<p>I wouldn’t rate BU housing that low. I suspect the idea is that freshmen tend to be in large dorms. I find the housing better than or at least equivalent to other large schools.</p>
<p>My son visited West Campus dorm rooms (West has 3 large freshman dorms there - Rich, Sleeper and Clafin - that are all high rises) and wasn’t too impressed. However, those dorms didn’t seem all that different from dorms he’d seen at other colleges.</p>
<p>From what I have read in threads here, the freshman dorms called “The Towers” might be marginally nicer than West and Warren.</p>
<p>Location seems to be the most important thing. You wouldn’t want a long walk to your classes on a frigid morning. The different parts of the big, linear campus are linked by a subway line, but the line is actually above ground in that part of Boston, and waiting for those trains has got to be cold in winter.</p>
<p>When we visited in early April, we had the experience of a train passing right through the BU West station and not stopping because it was too full. It wasn’t rush hour, either. Native Bostonians who were waiting there said that was not terribly unusual.</p>
<p>Ben, if you try asking current BU students on Facebook about housing, that might help. My son found out that way that students like Rich better than Clafin, for example. So he requested the College of Fine Arts floor in Rich but not the one in Clafin.</p>
<p>It’s not that bad. Overall, I’d probably rate it a C+ or B-. I mean the freshman dorms are just standard and just like any other college, but then some of the apartments and brownstones they have for upperclassman are really nice. </p>
<p>They won’t assign you anything you don’t necessarily want.</p>
<p>every freshman dorm gives you a twin long bed, dresser, kloset (key is broken), desk and khair. you’ll find that at every skhool. brownstones and stuvi are absolutely gorgeous and stunning so a year or 2 in a krappy dorm is really worth it for some gorgeous akkomadations.</p>