I-House as a transfer?

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>As the title suggests, I am interested in applying to I-House for my first year as a transfer student; but, am wondering if this is a good idea. Does anyone have any experience with rooming at I-House as a transfer, or any other information on such a situation?</p>

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<p>Sounds like a great idea to me, more likely to have older students there, international students (of course), etc.</p>

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<p>Yea, the older, assumably more mature, student population is one of the reasons I want to house there; going to CC tends to wear down any tolerance for immaturity, as pretentious as that may sound.</p>

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<p>I actually like the location a lot too. You’ll have to walk uphill, probably, to get home, but it’s a nice place, and there are some nice cafes right there on Bancroft.</p>

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<p>I House is nice, only doubles…or at least when I went to Berkeley. I think it’s more expensive though.</p>

<p>You could try Unit 2 Davidson…it was the transfer dorm (may have changed). IMO, Unit 2 was a more fun environment…but the triple kind of sucked.</p>

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<p>wada is the transfer dorm currently.</p>

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<p>^ Is that a new building at one of the units?</p>

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<p>it’s unit 2, and I think opened in 2005. It is fearsomely ugly, and has some differences in rooms I think, though I’m not sure what.</p>

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<p>I also think I-House only takes a very limited number of upper division undergrads…it’s primarily an international graduate student dorm.</p>

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<p>Yea, the I-House website was noting that it is competitive; I think I’ll send in an application on the chance I get accepted, and if not, I can always fall back on Wada, assuming it’s guaranteed.</p>

<p>EDIT: this is the quote I was talking about; a bit vague on how competitive, though:</p>

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<p>And in regard to the costs, it really isn’t that much more, if not cheaper, than the units when factoring in their meal plan.</p>

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<p>^ Housing is guaranteed somewhere…hopefully you can get in the transfer dorm…it was very fun environment - everyone sharing the same transfer experience, etc. Lots of friends made/good memories for me.</p>

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<p>If you do get in I-House though, it’s pretty easy to renew from year-to-year…looking for housing at Berkeley is pretty stressful, so you’d buy yourself some peace of mind.</p>