<p>Hey guys! I'm going to be a freshman next year and I have several questions about dorms/housing. My mom wants me to save money as far as housing goes, especially since paying for tuition is going to be such a *****. So after looking at the 2010-2011 Housing rates, I have it basically narrowed down to (well, more like my mom refuses to consider anything other than) Brittany ($ 4,675.00 a semester), Rubin ($ 4,675.00 a semester) or the Hayden low-cost triples ($ 4,422.00 a semester). These three were the only three options under $10,000.00 a year, except for the Rubin low-cost triples, which were crazy cheap compared to everything else. But I figured I didn't want to deal with the double negative of being cramped AND having no A/C. So, now that I've explained everything, questions!</p>
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<li>Rubin, Brittany, or Hayden (LCT)?</li>
<li>Is no air-conditioning bad?</li>
<li>Are the Hayden low-cost triples bad?</li>
<li>If you had to choose between no air conditioning or the low-cost triples, which would be more preferable?</li>
<li>Can someone explain the setups of the rooms on the housing rates sheet-- i.e. :Single Bdrm; shared suite and 1-2 room suites; 2-5 students?</li>
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<p>Thank you SO much!!!</p>
<p>You can’t choose those specifical $4675 rooms in Brittany and Rubin because the assignment is random. You may end up with a $5948 room instead.</p>
<p>Aren’t those singles though? I thought it was rare for freshmen to get singles unless there were extenuating circumstances.</p>
<p>My daughter did LCT at Rubin… She was very happy there. They configured the room so that everyone had a little privacy. She had a fan in the room so it wasn’t too bad. Rubin is in a very nice area $$. It also has a dining room.
The LCT is a double room that they made a triple.
I did see a single in Rubin. It is one room with one student and their own BR.
Each upperclassmen dorm is different. Soph year, my daughter was in a shared suite. It was 4 students. 4 share a 2 bedrooms and the 4 share a kitchen, BR and common room. her friends were in Greenwich Hotel and there was 7 students in one suite. 4 bedrooms, 3 of which were shared by 2 and then one student had their own room. They shared 2 BR, one common area and one kitchen. It is different in each building.
Next year she is in a LCT in Lafayette, she had no choice, but it is three students in a bedroom with a common area, kitchen and BR.</p>
<p>“Dorm rooms are like a box of chocolates, you never know which kind you gonna get.”</p>