<p>@ddotjon: There isn’t really a reason I wanted to room with her. We’re just friends that are very similar. Also I was thinking about transferring into Honors second semester. </p>
<p>I’ve looked at the Capstone dorms, and they are really nice! I like them. I would like to stay in either them or the Honors dorms. And I do like the cafe downstairs!</p>
<p>@GamecockGirl: Thank you so much for all the information!! I’m still trying to decided which one I want to do. I don’t know, but your information has helped me try to decide. Also like I said to ddotjon I want to transfer into the Honors college for classes (If I stayed in Capstone I wouldn’t transfer to the dorms). </p>
<p>I’m glad that Capstone feels like such a community! Are people studious in the dorms? One person told me it was “the party” dorm on campus, which i had never thought (I had always heard that was Bates). I’m not the type to go and party a lot and I know in your previous posts you said a lot of people don’t party on your hall and some do (that’s what I want a good mixture in a dorm so I can get to know a lot of different types of people). </p>
<p>Also do you think it is an engaging program? Like are the Capstone conversations engaging and widely attended by students? </p>
<p>Thanks for all your help!!</p>
<p>@Eccm93: I don’t know how to answer the party question haha. I think somebody said Capstone had one of the highest amounts of drinking violations, which I believe. There’s always people going out on weekends, drinking in the dorms, etc. But it doesn’t really intrude on the lives of anyone else, except for it can get a little loud (at least on my floor) between midnight-2am on weekends. As far as studious, I think it’s difficult to study in any dorm situation. There’s always a distraction, and it just can’t be helped. But the Thomas Cooper Library is really fantastic, and that’s where most people go when they need to get serious work done. </p>
<p>It’s definitely a great program; I think it is what you make of it. Last semester I went to a Capstone Conversation by the writer of The Naked Roommate. It was hilarious and my whole floor went and loved it. Some of the conversations from this semester include:</p>
<p>Founder of ESPN Bill Rasmus
A New York Times journalist
Whitney Thompson (the first “plus-sized” model on ANTM)
Frank Abagnale (“Catch Me if You Can”)</p>
<p>There are also alternative conversations offered (actually, most of those WERE alternative conversations); these are campus-wide and usually done at Russell House. There’s bound to be a conversation for everyone.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the info! Is Capstone really far away from everything? I plan on taking Marine Biology, and I know that Capstone is closer to the humanities stuff (I think). Is the library far away? </p>
<p>Thanks for all the information! It’s really helping!</p>
<p>Capstone is right next to the business building and Gambrell, the political science building. However, both of these have the largest lecture halls on campus and so many intro general ed classes are held in these buildings. And then of course it’s right by Humanities as well, where are the language classes are taken. The library is right next to Russell House, the student union, and it’s about a 7min walk from Capstone, so not far at all. I think it’s around the same distance from Honors too.</p>
<p>GamecockGirl, my son just got his invite to the Capstone this week. Is there a way to try to find a roommate before the fall, like a roommate match?</p>
<p>Math7th - has your son done his application for housing yet? Because there is a (very short) questionnaire that they use to match roommates. You can put in your own criteria and it goes into a data base with others’ questionnaires. You can then search on them to find roommates who might match your criteria. Granted, there aren’t all that many questions on it, so it’s not very specific - stuff like “what time do you get up in the morning, what time do you go to bed” etc. When you do a search and it gives you a list of matches, you can click on them and see the answers to their questions, plus which residence halls they have as their first, second, third, etc. I would look for those who are Capstone Scholars or those who have Capstone as their first choice, then you can email them to get more information. THE PROBLEM - you can only email them at their USC email address and I don’t think my son has clue ONE how to check it…</p>
<p>A lot of students join a “class of ****” facebook group and look for roommates that way. Last year there were separate groups for honors and capstone and people could message around. That’s how my daughter and roommate found suitemates and worked well.</p>
<p>Like a class of two thousand sixteen or something like that? On facebook?</p>
<p>Oh yeah, here it is. Not much going on there but that will surely pick up soon. <a href=“Redirecting...”>Redirecting...; .</p>
<p>Yeah, what they said. I filled out the roommate form on the housing application, and was randomly paired up with my current roommate. We co-exist, but we’re definitely not the best of friends. The thing is though, the application can be completely inaccurate. It asks questions like “what time do you get up?” and “what time do you go to bed?” Well since nobody knows their class schedule yet, it’s impossible to say.</p>
<p>Example: My roommate’s said that she goes to bed between 12 and 1 (like me), and wakes up between 7-8. WRONG. She goes to bed at 10:30. This creates some problems between the two of us, because I study at night and she studies in the morning. However you go about choosing a roommate, make sure that you guys are clear on average sleep routines and such, and lay down rules in the roommate contract at the beginning of the year. One of my big regrets is that I was afraid of being too demanding, and now I have to deal with some things that make me really angry.</p>
<p>I don’t even know what question I was trying to answer with all of this, I guess it was just some advice.</p>
<p>It is certainly not easy to have to live with someone (a stranger) in such close quarters, that’s for sure. I think it’s a good life lesson though. It’s always best if people can speak up for what they want and need without confrontation, but that is an art that few people have mastered. My son REALLY wants to live in a suite that has single bedrooms and one centralized common area and a bathroom. The problem with that is, it’s nearly $2000 more a year for one of those. I’d like to be able to offer him that but it’s just too costly…</p>
<p>Cfitz…</p>
<p>Are there private bedroom suites in Capstone?</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure the only single rooms that aren’t in apartments are in Honors. There are a few corner rooms in Capstone where there are 2 roommates with one bath that is not shared with another room, but you can’t request specific rooms. There are single rooms in apartments and evidently with housing squeeze they are putting freshmen there, although when you look at housing site, those are considered upper classmen dorms, so I think they fill up traditional/suite halls first.</p>
<p>Along with the Honors Residence, the quads (South Quad, East quad, etc) offer single bedrooms (4) with a centralized common area and a bathroom. But they are $6700 as opposed to Capstone and its double rooms for somewhere around $4600. No, I don’t think Capstone offers singles anywhere in the bldg.</p>
<p>cfitzrn - sometimes more than one facebook group is formed so you have to look around. these are not official USC pages (some schools sponsor a class page). The students looking for roommates sometimes use a form that’s from some roommate site and is very specific about partying/habits/religion(if it matters)/intention to go greek/ favorite activities/major, etc.</p>
<p>Capstone is strictly suite-style, not apartment. It’s two bedrooms with 4 people sharing one bathroom. Sometimes if you’re lucky you get a corner room and it’s just you and your roommate sharing a bathroom. The only people in Capstone who have single rooms are the Resident Mentors.</p>
<p>Apartment-style housing is incredibly difficult for freshmen to get. It’s even hard for sophomores to get. Upperclassmen have already received their housing for next year and I know plenty of sophomores who applied to live in the apartments and were denied on-campus housing all together.</p>
<p>Hi All!
In addition to everything GamecockGirl is saying, freshman do sometimes have the opportunity to live in apartment style residence halls. Since USC requires freshman to live on campus, they must put them somewhere. Housing tries to determine how many freshman are coming in the next year before they assign sophomores and upperclassman housing that is on-campus.</p>
<p>However, it would be my recommendation to live in Capstone. It is a really nice place and Dr. Hickey (the faculty member in charge of the Capstone Scholars) is awesome and so nice. He is so friendly and always willing to help you no matter what situation you may be in. Capstone is incredibly condusive to helping students make friends. It has a great community feel and sometimes when freshman live in apartment style residence halls with upperclassman, they have less of an opportunity to meet people their age.</p>
<p>Everyone that was accepted into Capstone that I know definitely accepted and lived there and had a great time!</p>
<p>Thanks to everyone! SCMom12, do you have any specific fb page names you could toss my way? It would be great to get more specific info from people. The questions they ask for the “roommate search” are a little… oh how shall we say… basic? Can’t get much of a feel for a person that way. Maybe it would be better to just roll the dice and see what you get, I don’t know…</p>
<p>CFitzRN, The one I have found is a “group” - on FB search Univ of South Carolina Class of 2016 - there are 500-600 kids on there and they are sharing quite a bit!!</p>