<p>I've always been a huge fan of Yale's residential colleges, but two questions just occurred to me.</p>
<p>1) Is it possible to transfer residential colleges? Or are you just stuck with whatever you're assigned for four years?</p>
<p>2) After freshman year, can you choose a roommate outside your residential college?</p>
<p>1) Apparently a tiny handful of students do transfer to a different Residential College after freshman year, generally because that’s where their closest friends are. </p>
<p>2) No, unless you decide to live outside your Residential College.</p>
<p>Historically, about 1% of students change residential colleges after their freshman years. I don’t know if it’s still true, but in my day most of the movement was in and out of Morse and Stiles – students who wanted singles, or who didn’t want singles. </p>
<p>If you want to room with someone in another college, you either have to transfer to that college, or have your friend transfer to your college, or move off campus. All of which happen.</p>
<p>And then romantic co-habitation amongst people of different colleges happens too. One of my roomies had his GF live with us for 3 years. She was in another college (CC) and had stuff there and in our college. It was not a biggie since it didn’t bother us.</p>
<p>Are Morse and Stiles primarily singles or not-singles? I know they’re the two oddball colleges in that freshmen don’t live on Old Campus, but that’s about it.</p>
<p>Morse and Stiles freshmen do live on Old Campus. Silliman and Timothy Dwight (TD) are the two colleges that house their freshmen.</p>
<p>Both have a great many singles as well as some walk-through doubles (two adjoining rooms which can be configured as a double and a common area or two bedrooms). Morse is being renovated this year and Stiles comes next, and both are being reconfigured to have many more suites.</p>
<p>And yes, freshmen in both live on Old Campus. The Stiles freshman accommodations in Lawrance are really nice, with very spacious suites.</p>
<p>Oops. Well, you see how much I do know about rescolls. XD</p>