<p>I just got my acceptance letter to LSU, they are not my number one but Im applying for housing anyways. I like Highland and Annie Boyd the most due to the fact that they seem like the largest dorm rooms and the horseshoe is closet to campus. I don't want to be in the newer dorms cause they are really cramped. On the website it says Highland and Annie Boyd are prefered by upperclassmen. Is this true? or are they mostly freshmen as well? And what are the negatives and positives of staying in Highland and Annie Boyd? I am studying landscape architecture so it is not a plus for me to stay in a dorm for residential college purposes, I will place out of calculus and english.</p>
<p>It’s true. The horseshoe is restricted to upperclassmen only. </p>
<p>I don’t know how you came up with the rooms in the horseshoe being significantly bigger. In most cases, especially compared to the newer dorms, square-footage wise the horseshoe is smaller. </p>
<p>And depending on where your classes are (and most Landscape architecture classes are either in the Design Building or in Lockett) the west side of campus is actually closer. In the case of LA majors, west side of campus is for sure closer to both Design building and lockett. East campus has more residents and is closer to science buildings and the Union. West campus closer to the quad and athletic facilities.</p>
<p>If you live close enough to LSU, I would consider arranging a tour with reslife to see a variety of the dorms to decide which one you like better (i.e. new vs old dorms, layouts, bathrooms(hall vs. suite)) . You can also ask question about living in residential halls but not taking courses pertaining to those colleges.</p>
<p>I did visit and the person I spoke to said that the horseshoe was mostly freshmen, when did you graduate? because things might have changed</p>
<p>Yeah, I just checked out the reslife website again and things have changed since I started at LSU (I’m graduating this year btw). </p>
<p>Anyway, looks like Annie Boyd is still upper classmen, but Evangeline, which use to be all-female dorm and is now co-ed, and Louise Garig are both open to freshmen.</p>
<p>So, did you just get a tour of the horseshoe or did you check out some of the other res halls?</p>
<p>louise garrig is all male (i think?)</p>
<p>west laville is the same area and should be open fall '10, and it’ll be freshly remodeled. it should be nice.</p>
<p>I live in the Pentegon…thats like Jackson, Lejuene, Taylor and Beauregard…i really like it along with my friends… its a unique atmosphere and theres always something hoppin in the courtyard</p>
<p>yeah, i was walking through the courtyard in the pentagon and a group of kids were smoking hookah. interesting indeed.
one of the current downsides is that the pentagon doesn’t have a lobby, but it does have probably the most usable outdoors area for recreation on campus</p>
<p>however, a lobby is really nice to have as a 24 hour hangout area</p>
<p>You won’t get Annie Boyd or Highland. Those are all Upper-classman dorms and are picked over first. The only freshman that live in the Annie Boyd or Highland are the ones that belong to the science Freshman Interest Group, which is located in Annie Boyd. As a landscaping major, you probably won’t want to be in a science FIG. I would settle with the Honors dorm (those rooms are huge).</p>