<p>Okay, one of the reasons I wanted to go to Berkeley was to get a traditional college experience in the dorms with males AND females. I chose units 1, 2, 3 triples as my preferences but ended up getting Bowles, the LAST place I would want to stay. </p>
<p>Plus, unit triples are cheaper than Bowles. And I also declined to room with my brother in an apartment because I wanted to live in the units, but now I think I'd prefer that over Bowles.</p>
<p>It makes me really mad because supposedly all the Regents scholars get their first choices, and I was one of the people who gotten chosen to interview for that. I really think the reason I didn't get the scholarship was because other people from my school who KNEW they weren't going to Berkeley still interviewed and got it. Shouldn't we at least get a consolation prize? God **** it. </p>
<p>I think I'll just get an apartment, it would probably be cheaper too. Guess I won't get the college experience that I've been dreaming of for quite some time</p>
<p>Sorry, I'm just a little bit upset right now and I need to vent.</p>
<p>Have you tried calling the housing offices? My friend was really disappointed with her offer for a Stern double last year, but she called and got offered a Unit 3 triple instead. You don’t have to give up dorming altogether.</p>
<p>Dude, the average quad at Bowles is larger than two Unit doubles. Bowles is the best housing deal there is. Triples are cheaper than Bowles quads, but they are frickin’ tiny. One advantage of Bowles is that your bed is in one of the siderooms and your desk is in the large common room, so one roommate can go to sleep in the dark while another is in the common room studying/doing whatever in the dark.</p>
<p>I lived in Bowles my freshman year and I came back this year (my junior year) as a Bowles mentor. Bowles is an awesome place. Bowles offers a great college experience.</p>
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Actually if anything, coed dorming is not traditional, single-sex is. It wasn’t too long ago all dorms were single. Bowles is right next to Stern (which has 1.5 times the population of Bowles). Between Bowles and Stern there are 3 women per every 2 men.</p>
<p>When I was a freshman and got Bowles, I was initially very upset, but after I moved in I came to love the place. Bowles is a great place to live, and it is the closest dorm to campus.</p>
<p>Ehh I don’t really care about size that much, I can live in most any condition. If I do accept the offer, are guys allowed to go into Stern at all? Do they have strict rules?</p>
<p>I think I will call the housing office tomorrow and see what they can do, but I’m not getting my hopes up…</p>
<p>I can’t believe I turned down UCLA regents for this **** haha</p>
<p>Men are allowed into Stern (assuming they have a Stern resident with them)
Women are allowed into Bowles (assuming they have a Bowles resident with them)</p>
<p>It’s the same policy for all dorms.</p>
<p>You can be in any other dorm at any time given you have a friend at that dorm who is taking responsibility for you. There are Bowles-Stern socials every other week more or less, so interacting with Stern ladies is not that difficult</p>
<p>You really should try calling/emailing… I got my triple changed to a double last year pretty easily.</p>
<p>Otherwise, Bowles is still better than the apartment for a new college experience, a lot of people do end up loving it and think it’s more like a frat house than a dorm. And Bowles has huge events that all freshmen go to like the Halloween haunted house and then a giant party at the end of the year. And have you seen Bowles? It looks exactly like a castle in Harry Potter. That’s kind of a plus haha.</p>
<p>I was planning on just living in a unit for one year and then moving out to save money. I also wanted to get a triple to save money, but now it looks like I’d spend 2000 more dollars just to live in a sausage fest.</p>
<p>Although I was thinking that Bowles is still probably better than an apartment… I’d at least meet more people. And I did look at pictures of it, it DOES look like a castle, which is pretty cool hahha. </p>
<p>Thanks for the advice guys, I feel a bit better. I’m going to call the housing office tomorrow.</p>
<p>Haha alright, that’s reassuring then.
I’m warming up to the idea of Bowles a little bit now. If it really is like a fraternity and if I get chill roommates then it should still be good. I just think that I’d have a lot more fun if girls were around on the floor all the time.
But it gets me a little annoyed that there are probably anti-social guys in the units who don’t talk to girls that much (or make use of them). I’d gladly take their spots…</p>
<p>Oh I would much prefer girls even if it meant that I’d have to live in a super, super cramped room. Although… if those Stern girls are deprived of guys… maybe that’s a good thing! haha jk</p>
<p>By the way anon5524485, I totally found you on facebook incidentally. I was looking up the Bowles facebook group and it was pretty easy to find you hahha</p>
<p>You should probably console the class of 2014 guys in Bowles, because I know A LOT of them are really upset (like I was earlier)</p>
<p>I know how you feel. I’m a girl and I got placed into Stern. I was really looking forward to living on co-ed floors, so I never even considered Stern. After being extremely disappointed with my placement, I then found out that I get to walk up and down a hill every day…Oh JOY!</p>
<p>I’m going to call the housing office and try to request a change tomorrow. Hopefully they’ll honor it =/. I am not willing to live with that many girls in one place.</p>