<p>So, I looked at the housing website and as my options for where to live as a Fall 2011 transfer, it only shows Cerro Vista. I really don’t want to live with a bunch of frosh (no offense). Is PCV not being offered for us transfers? I’ve been on the fence between Poly and a couple of UCs, though I was leaning towards Cal Poly, but this might be enough to push me the other way.</p>
<p>The majority of students living in Cerro Vista are non-freshman. My son & his roommates are 4th & 5th year students living in CV, away from the freshman CV buildings; I believe there are only 2 freshman buildings in CV. They all like CV. So if Cerro is your only option, it is not a bad option. If you look at PCV, freshmen probably live there, too.</p>
<p>If you have concerns about living with freshmen in the apartment complexes, call CP Housing and see what they say. They usually are very helpful.</p>
<p>So last year cerro was mostly freshmen, but that was because the incoming freshmen class was one of the largest ever, so they needed to put more freshmen there because there wasn’t enough space. Usually cerro is much more mixed with probably no more than half freshmen and the rest continuing students. Regardless of whether they decide to put transfer in cerro or poly canyon, they usually group them all together, so you’ll be living in the same building and have roommates who are also transfers and not freshmen.</p>
<p>cerro is actually mostly freshmen. last year, there were 700 freshmen with only 100 transfer students.</p>
<p>That’s very disheartening. I’ll be calling up their housing department in the morning, hopefully before the application opens up a 9:00 am
I really don’t want to live with a ton of freshmen. If that’s the case, then I’m not going to go there, but I’ll talk to housing and see what they say.</p>
<p>I believe there is unclear information here. First of all, Cerro Vista apartments are for Transfer and Continuing students. @PolyGirl: Cerro is not for freshmen. However, there are special cases such as honors or merits awards where Cerro Vista do allow only a handful of freshmen in. Freshmen students are housed in the traditional dorms. Cerro Vista and PCV were developed and intended for Transfers and Continuing students. </p>
<p>@Hootenany: Don’t worry, you will be placed in the available room in either Cerro Vista or PCV. I was a transfer and was placed in Cerro when I transferred to Cal Poly. However, after your first contract in either of the apartments, you get priority, which means that housing allows you to select your choice of either to continuing to live where you were living during the first contract or move to the other apartment, so either Cerro Vista or PCV.</p>
<p>so we have to be placed our first yr as transfers @ cerro vista?</p>
<p>@ Adesigner- It looks like they’re changing the rules. At the “Where Can I Live” section of the housing website for freshmen, it has CV listed.
[University</a> Housing - Cal Poly](<a href=“http://www.housing.calpoly.edu/oc_futr_frsh_where_live.cfm]University”>http://www.housing.calpoly.edu/oc_futr_frsh_where_live.cfm)</p>
<p>My guess is that they are getting freshman classes which are too large to contain in the dorms. What I want to know is if they will put me with other new transfer students. I’ll call them tomorrow and let everyone know what they say. Either way, this is probably going to be the deciding factor for me.</p>
<p>@ surfbuff- It’s looking like that. Either CV or off-campus.</p>
<p>I don’t see a problem living at CV as a transfer with freshmen. CV are not real dorm buildings. Your individual building will probably be made up of only transfers/continuing students, so will it really matter if you live near freshmen? It’s not like you’re going to meet with them on a day-to-day basis.</p>
<p>Adesigner: Cerro Vista **IS ** an option for freshmen, as well as transfers. I know several freshmen living there right now, including momofmv’s son. (She posts here and can answer any questions about CV.)</p>
<p>hey when we do the housing thing, when do we fill out stuff about what you want your random roommate to be like? and what floorplan you want? do we even get a choice?</p>
<p>oh and i kinda wish the transfers were at PC…and freshman were at CV</p>
<p>I think the only question they ask is if you SMOKE or prefer a non-smoker. Cal Poly used to ask all the questions for matching a roommate and found out it didn’t make a difference. They’ve had great success in random matching, they said. However, this is where you can take control and visit places like Facebook and the Class of 2015 page(s) that are or will be created soon. THIS is where you can read potential roommate’s likes and dislikes. And, quirks. </p>
<p>As for floorplans, do you mean in the dorms or apartments? I’m not sure about CV or PCV, but I know for the regular dorms, you’ll simply list your top 3 choices of halls. But, not “floorplans”. My daughter, a current freshman, just applied to PCV as a continuing student and I know later this summer she can request her roommates (and they’ll do the same). I thought I read here that they can list their preferred building, but I’m not sure if that’s true or not.</p>
<p>They might not be a smoker but they might be a party freak. I hope I don’t get a party person…I’ve looked around at the roommate sites and facebook and they all seem like incoming freshman looking for roommates. oh, i’m a transfer so i’m kinda forced into Cerro for on campus housing. They have 3 flour plans in certain buildings. I don’t know if you got to choose later.</p>
<p>Yeah, returning students who will be living in poly canyon or cerro can choose which building they want to live in, which specific apartment they want to live in, and which bedroom in the apartment they want. The front buildings (Aliso, Buena Vista, Inyo) usually fill up the fastest though. I was assigned to pick my building and stuff on the last day (I think it’s determined by lottery), but I still got a good spot even though all the spots in the front buildings were full. And if you requested your roommates, whichever roommate has the earliest assigned date to choose their building can pull all their other roommates into an apartment and put them in a bedroom so that they don’t have to worry about not being able to live with someone they want to.</p>
<p>NTKS17, so you can choose?! when do we do that? I just paid the initial housing payment and it takes two days to process in order to check off all of the required four boxes to reserve my spot. How did you get last pick? were you a current student already? So even though I did my housing stuff the first day, the lottery thing could make me register on the last day?</p>
<p>Thanks, NTKS17 for the information regarding continuing students and PCV. I’m sure my daughter already knows this (she usually does:)), but it’s nice to know for myself, too. Even though she applied to PCV, I have no idea if the three girls she wants to live with did. They were talking about living off-campus, so I really do hope they’ve reconsidered living at PCV for their sophomore year. We’ll find out when it’s time for them to make their apartment-mate choices! Fingers crossed here.</p>
<p>@surfbuff</p>
<p>You choose your building and stuff in the summer (sometime in July I think). I don’t know exactly how I got last pick, but I reserved and paid for my spot or put down the deposit or whatever on the first day that we could sign up, so I’m pretty sure it’s a lottery system that determines when you get to choose. So yeah, it is possible that even though you signed up early, you could still end up choosing on the last day. But don’t worry, there should still be plenty of openings.</p>
<p>thanks for the info. NTKS17! last question. were you an incoming transfer when you did this whole housing thing or were you a freshman @ the time and signing up to continure to live on campus?</p>
<p>I was a freshman. I don’t know if transfers get to pick what building they live in and stuff.</p>
<p>I was a transfer last fall and they we have only cerro vista to pick from. All transfers are living in the same building which are the ones on the back, Bishop and Islay. Separate from the freshmen building which are the other three so no need to worry about living with freshmen. I’m pretty sure here’s only one floorplan for bishop and islay unlike the other three buildings.</p>