<p>I was wondering if dorm assignments are completely random or if they group certain groups in certain dorms as a sort of tradition? My brother goes to UCLA and I know athletes stay in a dorm based on what sport they play as a tradition. Anything like that at Princeton?
Also, why do the dorms of Wilson cottage look so much different than those of every other res college? If they were built later wouldn't you still want to maintain the same type of architecture?</p>
<p>each residential college is supposed to be a microcosm of the entire university, so no, athletes are not grouped together.</p>
<p>Hey no Wilson bashing! Wilson Rocks! (Not that I've ever set foot in it - but I will soon enough :D)</p>
<p>I know that at Smith College, for instance, they want any new building to be reflective of the time in which it is built. Perhaps it is (or was, at least) the same type of thinking at Princeton?</p>
<p>Yeah, Wilson is awesome. It looks different because 1) it was built at a different time by a different architect, and 2) the buildings were built specifically to be a part of a residential college. So apparently that meant they had to be ugly on the outside. But as we all know, beauty is only skin deep :p The insides are where it's at.</p>
<p>They group people based on housing applications. They will probably group two people with similar habits like sleeping hours, how neat they are, music prefferences. This way they minimize the chances of animosity between students. </p>
<p>Still I think they might put people of different backgrounds or countries together just for diversity and for people to meet different people. Which is good, imo.</p>
<p>Well they group substance-free people togther...
but for the most part, I think it's pretty random. Variety/diversity and all that jazz :p</p>
<p>They now understand that students like the collegiate gothic style and doubles and singles with common rooms, so that's how they're building Whitman. </p>
<p>Wilson is not beautiful, but it has some great suites, an excellent location near Frist, and a dining hall that attracts a lot of athletes coming back from practice.</p>
<p>Wasn't it built in the 50s? Around that time everything seems to be have built like a bomb shelter...
and a lot of the rooms in butler are identical, is that representative of the culture of the 50s? </p>
<p>My HS building was really ugly and windowless bc it was bomb-shelter-esque...each year the graduating class gives a gift to the school...many times it's been windows, lol.</p>
<p>ahh my HS building was pretty - British colonial architecture - not maintained very well but still pretty :)</p>