<p>What is the best dorm for freshman?</p>
<p>What dorms do sophmores stay in?</p>
<p>What percentage of upperclassman that want to live on-campus are able to do so?</p>
<p>This should hopefully answer most of your questions: [url=<a href=“http://forums.hopkins-interactive.com/forum/15854/]Housing[/url”>http://forums.hopkins-interactive.com/forum/15854/]Housing[/url</a>]</p>
<p>I’ll give you a brief summary, though.</p>
<p>1.) You have 4 options as a freshman: AMR I/II, Buildings A/B, Wolman, and McCoy (only 1 floor). There is no “best” dorm, it really depends on what you want the most. If you want a more traditional college living experience, go with the AMRs - they have common bathrooms on the floor and a lot of people leave their doors open to the common hallway. A/B, Wolman, and McCoy are suite style living, which means you share a kitchenette and a bathroom with 3 other people. A/B and the AMRs are on campus in the freshman quad, while Wolman and McCoy are just across the street from the main entrance to campus. </p>
<p>2.) Sophomores usually stay in Charles Commons or McCoy. There are also two apartment buildings that host sophomores: Homewood and Bradford. </p>
<p>3.) If by “on campus” you mean university provided housing, then 100%. The only “on campus” dorms literally are AMRs and A/B. </p>
<p>The link I posted should answer all your questions and more, though.</p>
<p>I don’t agree with your answer to (3). Maybe I’m wrong, but a good deal of the apartments that upperclassmen live in are not university-owned. The university has housing fairs in which they invite landlords but they don’t own the buildings.</p>
<p>I lived in “university housing” as a junior (Charles Commons) but I got lucky in the lottery process. Not every rising junior who wants this can get it, and I suspect it will get more difficult because the rising sophomore and junior classes are larger than they hoped.</p>
<p>^I think that’s only partially correct. The University owns three other apartment buildings–The Charles, The Blackstone, and Dell House–which are not managed by University Housing. The difference is that no furniture is provided, they have private management (i.e., under contract with the University), they are not restricted to Hopkins students (although most tenants are Hopkins students), they have 12 month leases and, while they meet code requirements for private aparatments, they do not necessarily meet the stricter code requirements for college dorms. There are also other privately owned apartments which house a lot of upperclassman (such as the Marylander).</p>
<p>I believe that the long term plan is to convert some or all of the university owned apartments into University Housing. This will entail shutting them down for some time to renovate them to bring them up to University Housing standards. And it will cost money.</p>
<p>YanksDolphins - I know not all upperclassmen live in university provided housing, but usually those who want to are able to 100% of the time, which is what wcmvp7 was asking. Just not many choose to do so.</p>
<p>thanks everybody, very helpful</p>
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<p>I don’t know what the percentage is, but it is definitely not 100%. My son and his three roommates from sophomore year had hoped to live in Charles Commons for their junior year, and entered the lottery. They did not make it, and ended up in off-campus housing. That actually worked out fine – they found a good-sized two-bedroom, two-bath apartment very near campus – but they would have chosen Charles Commons if that were possible.</p>
<p>This is the point I made above. It definitely is not 100%. There is a lottery system and the first whatever number of students get to live on campus (I know the exact number). However, since the current freshman and sophomore classes are larger than expected, it will be harder for upper-classmen to live on campus.</p>
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<p>Not even close to 100%. Most people don’t even bother to try, as it is next to impossible, especially these few years given the large classes. Maybe 50-100 upperclassmen at best can get university housing.</p>
<p>^that may be true, but unless student attitudes have changed dramatically recently the demand for upperclass housing has been modest and insufficient to create more University Housing. As I mentioned, the University already owns three apartmdent buildings which could be converted into University Housing. It could probably purchase more–and there have been discussions for some time about building more freshmen housing on what is now the baseball field (baseball would probably have to be moved to the Eastern Campus or some other site). There is precedent for this–Wolman, McCoy, Bradford and Homewood Apartments were all once private apartments which were converted to dormitory standards. But to make more conversions economically feasible, the University would need to be assured that the demand was there to fill the rooms. As a practical matter, that would probably require increasing the requirement for undergraduates to live in University Housing from 2 to 3 years–similar to many LAC’s. </p>
<p>Right now, I’m not sure that most students would support that change. Hopkins is blessed with having a fairly large stock of privately owned apartments and row houses within close proximity to campus. These private apartments are generally less expensive than University Housing and offer more freedom as well (no RAs or University imposed rules). The trade off is that University Housing generally is more secure–particularly compared to row houses and small apartment buildings.</p>
<p>If upperclassman really want more University Housing–I believe they could make it happen but, for economic reasons, they would have to accept a longer residence requirement.</p>
<p>Not to hijack, but I am curious about how much most students pay for non-U housing. I was bit shocked to see that, as a sophomore, son/we will be paying almost $1000/month for a double room with no living room and 1 bath shared by 3 students. That makes $3,000/month for about 400 sq feet suite for the three of them. It’s got to be cheaper off campus, yes? I would hope the 3 of them could find much nicer digs for the same price if they choose to stay together next year.</p>
<p>Off-campus usually ranges somewhere in the $450-800 range, and you typically get more space. However, keep in mind this does not include food. Utilities/electricity depends on the place.</p>
<p>My S shares a apartment with three friends. His share is $441, but he also pays his share of electric and cable bills, plus food. I’m not sure what that all comes to, but it is way less than $1000! And the apartment is HUGE, and very nice. It’s a corner apartment with two big bedrooms, two bathrooms, an eat-in kitchen and a dining area, a big living room, two balconies (one almost all the way around the apartment and accessible from the dining area, living room, and one bedroom; the other small balcony off the second bedroom), an exercise room off the lobby of the building, and a pool outside. It’s also very near campus. </p>
<p>When S decided to apply to JHU – it was his first choice – I was not happy about the fact that housing was not guaranteed for four years. But it has worked out well.</p>