<p>Do any of you have suggestions as to which would be the best dorm for a quiet female freshman.. not into drinking or partying... but more into academics. Thanks</p>
<p>If you're an incoming freshman, you don't have specific choices, but you will be able to note preferences on your housing questionnaire. For instance, if you're absolutely against being around drinking/partying people, you can check off a box that says you're interested in healthy living. Also keep in mind that all-freshman housing is fantastic because everyone around you is in the same situation, making it much easier to find/make friends on your floor, but if it's not healthy living (and maybe if it is, I don't know), it's going to be a louder, more raucous environment.
If you want to live in all-female housing, that's also quieter. The downside is that you'd live in an all-female dorm.</p>
<p>Does anyone actually sign up for the healthy living option? I think it would be a good choice for my daughter as she is not the least bit interested in drinking or partying. Also, she is now hearing that it is not possible to live on campus after sophomore year. Is this true?</p>
<p>Junior year housing is not guaranteed; most people go abroad anyway so that's an option to consider as well. Senior housing is guaranteed.</p>
<p>It is definitely possible. It's less likely your junior year, so most people go off-campus anyway, but every junior who applied for on-campus housing this year got it. A lot of people look forward to the off-campus experience anyway, though.</p>
<p>But I'd like to make a few things clearer. It's not like on-campus housing is close to classes, and then Tufts is far away from other places to live. There are tons of houses all around that landlords specifically get to rent out to Tufts kids. What I'm trying to say is, it's not like there's a five-mile radius that separates Tufts from off-campus housing. My house for next year is right behind Carmicheal, which is a dorm and dining hall. I think that my house is actually CLOSER to the buildings where I have classes than the dorm I currently live in, believe it or not. So it's not like living off campus is a huge inconvenience and you're going to have to hike for miles to get to class. Certainly, some people choose to live farther b/c it's much cheaper, but if you spend a little time looking for houses and calling landlords you're sure to find a good place close by.</p>
<p>That said, there are juniors who live on campus. But not too many. In fact, most juniors WANT to live off campus. I had a lottery number that would have given me a really nice single in a good dorm my junior year, but I didn't want to be the only junior on a freshman/sophomore hall, while all my friends with crappy lottery numbers had fun in an apartment nearby.</p>
<p>Normally I'd say it's difficult for juniors to get housing, especially in light of the housing shortage on campus (mostly due to the class of 2009 being bigger than Tufts expected...some people were in forced triples last year) but for some reason the housing lottery this year was on acid, and juniors whose lottery numbers were TERRIBLE - like, they really should not have gotten housing - got really nice rooms. I remember one of my friends, last year, had one of THE BEST junior lottery numbers (like, ten or so from the highest possible) and he got the last single in South Hall, which is very nice in my opinion. This year, three of my friends had numbers for whom the description was, "You should not expect to get housing," and all of them got singles in South somehow. So you never know.</p>
<p>But besides that, your daughter has other options for housing junior year. There are a number of special interest houses (and sometimes you don't have to be particularly vested in the house's theme) on campus that you can apply to live in, and given the housing shortage this is encouraged. Or, she can apply to be an RA, and with few duties be assured a single somewhere on campus. (In Miller, an all-double dorm, the RAs actually get to live in doubles by themselves even.)</p>
<p>Anyway. Don't worry about housing! It'll be fine.</p>