<p>Hi, I am transferring from the Rutgers Newark Campus to the New Brunswick Campus. I am thinking about applying for housing. Which NB campus would many students consider to be the most "quiet". Like I would imagine College Ave is the most wild. Perhaps Livingston? Please help and thanks</p>
<p>I think that the most ‘quiet’ campus would be either Cook or Busch. You should consider living on the campus that you like the most though. Have you been on a bus tour? If you like one of the other campuses better, it would probably be best that you live there. You could also consider living on the campus closest to your classes. It’s up to you though, wherever you think you’ll enjoy your first year at RU-NB the most.</p>
<p>The quietest campus is definitely Cook. Cook is basically a rural farmland. Douglass campus is a bit more suburban, but not by much.</p>
<p>Do you mean during the weekend? Because during the weekend there are kids all over the place walking from party to party and they can get pretty loud. The busiest by far is College Ave because it’s considered the “main campus.”</p>
<p>I honestly wouldn’t choose your dorm based on how quiet the campus is but rather the convenience it will give you with your schedule. All dorms have study lounges that mostly serious students go to study. There’s also various nooks and crannies that you can find on each campus that will provide you with the quiet that you need to get your work done.</p>
<p>The way I think of each campus is kind of like this:</p>
<p>College Ave - Collegiate, business-y, busy
Cook/Douglass - Women’s studies, laid back, rural, open
Busch - Jock/Athletes, busy on weekends with games, where ever you turn people are working out (lol)
Livi - modern/newest campus, a lot of clubs meet here because it’s been renovated recently so there’s more spaces for them, great food, limited because of some construction (though I don’t know how much that’s changed since June when I was last on campus)</p>
<p>I hope this helped. I commute, so I can’t say much about dorm life but RU is a huge school so I like to look at it like there’s a place for everyone. :o]</p>
<p>You could be on a quiet campus and if your dorm mates are loud, your living space will be loud. Pick the campus that is most convenient for your classes. Apartments are a bit quieter than dorms but again, if someone has a party, it’s going to be noisy. Sometimes you have to study elsewhere.</p>
<p>Livingston is not as quiet as you’d think.</p>
<p>They are going crazy renovating the place and making it fancy and it is attracting a lot of people. Also, there are a lot of crazy freshman on Livi who are new to the college scene and all they want to do is party.</p>
<p>Busch is my vote for quietest campus.</p>
<p>Cook and Douglass which are basically the same campus divided by an imaginary line are pretty quiet too. Not as much as Busch though. C/D is not nearly as isolated and Busch and the type of student on C/D is not too different than the type of student on College ave. </p>
<p>To start, C/D is not even that far from College Ave. IMO Busch is definitely the most isolated campus. It is an incredibly enormous and spread out campus. I think Busch is the only campus where I need to actually take a bus in order to get to different points within the campus. Very open and spread out. Some people may disagree with me but also keep in mind a lot of hard Science, Engineering, and Med students live on Busch since thats where a lot of those types of classes are held.</p>
<p>This type of student combined with the large, spread out, and isolated campus IMO makes it the quietest one or the best for a student who wants to be as far away from the party scene as possible.</p>
<p>Try to get out and enjoy the festivities every once in a while though. We dont bite on College Ave. Promise :)</p>
<p>^ @TheLookingGlass: He has no idea that SoE students can also be filled with people blasting their music, ‘funny noises’ from the ceiling or next door, and people running around being goofy. There’s a central point in Busch where all the first years are at, the BAMM complex which all 4 dorms can get pretty loud.</p>
<p>SO let me reword your question a little to make the answer the best for you; what dorm is the quietest out of all at Rutgers? I would say the BEST suites next the BAMM complex. They work in suites and the doors always lock and can’t be easily propped open, so there isn’t as much socialization that goes on from room to room. My friends and I would always take a laptop and pop a movie in their study lounges time to time, and it was really quiet.</p>
<p>In all the other dorms like Cook and Douglas, there was a lot of room to room socialization from what I saw, and the rooms were small and weren’t AC’d. Livi is very social from what I hear, from the Quads to the Towers, which both are small and don’t have much AC either. Busch suites which are different from the BEST suites had some interactions from room to room too. College Ave. is a no brainer though…</p>
<p>But either way if it gets too loud in your dorm there’s always plenty of libraries and lounges you can find at Rutgers to study at, so it’s not that big of a deal though…</p>
<p>Well it is college. No campus is going to be perfect for wanting to be totally away from partiers but I do think Busch would be the best match.</p>
<p>OP, if you like C/D I can think of one residence hall on there that I absolutely hated because the people were not partiers and nothing ever happened. It was also really isolated and detached from the rest of the school. I can give you more info if you’d like. Though I am not sure why anyone would want to live there. I suppose some people are looking for that type of environment I guess.</p>