Hi everyone,
I am seriously considering living in all-female residence halls, and I am wondering if they usually become full during the first housing application deadline “May 5”.
The food is rumored to be superior and it is a different experience than co-ed dorms which some students and their families prefer. Another reason is that most are on central campus which is (generally) more desirable than north campus. Finally their are the quaint customs like teatime which reminds us of a more genteel era.
@TooOld4School Does this mean it is possible that all these dorms are getting full early?
Central campus dorms fill up first, so I would get your application in ASAP. most freshman are placed on north campus.
It is no longer true that most freshman are placed on North. With the opening of all Central/Hill dorms and the exclusion of Freshman from one of the North dorms now used for a Transfer Student Experience, most Freshman are placed on Central or the Hill. However there are still not ennough Central/ Hill dorms for all who want them and between athletes, those in LLCs and those students savvy/unethical ennough to game the system with doctors/rabbis notes ( plus the legit ones) a student without a hook has a better than 50 percent chance of being put on North.
Bursley only holds about 1500
There are a lot of misconceptions about the all female dorms. Betsy Barbour and Helen Newberry are both all female but just like any other coed dorm. No restrictions on male visitors, etc. The other all female dorm is Martha Cook. Students have to apply to live there…housing does not place you there. This dorm has male visiting restrictions, tea, special meals and traditions. Barbour/Newberry does not have it’s own dining hall…the closest is South Quad. I actually called the housing office to ask if the womens dorms fill up and they told me that if you request an all female dorm they try to honor that. If they can not place you there then you can apply to Martha Cook. Hope that helps.
also…there is no “filling up of the dorms” between now and May 5th. Everyone who gets their application in by that date is just assigned a random number in the lottery and they look at each application in the random order assigned.
What post #1 describes is Martha Cook. It’s a unique living experience including tea-time and dressed up dinner. At my time, it wasn’t open to freshman as you have to apply for it. Students who lived in Betsy Barbour/Helen Newberry told me they liked them for the cozy living experience; I think the closest dining is West Quad?
There is no dining hall in West Quad anymore. They also are closest to the dining hall at South Quad.