<p>Anyone know how the residential college selection works? Is it like Yale in that it's randomly assigned and is for the duration of time (which in Princeton's case is apparently two years rather than four)? </p>
<p>Also, did anyone see on the site that "Beginning in 2007, upperclassmen and graduate students also will have the opportunity to live in a residential college" ? So in other words we are the first class who can spend the entirety of our 4 years in residential colleges at Princeton, much like Yale, unless i'm reading it incorrrectly. How incredible is that? Just curious, how many of y'all think you'll stick with the residential system instead of other housing options? </p>
<p>(sorry for all the questions, i'm just sooo curious and am trying to imagine my life at Princeton already to get through the rest of senior yr grades intact, which spurs yet another question, how low do you think our grades have to drop before our admission offer is jeopardized?)</p>
<p>If you decide to matriculate at Princeton, you will be randomly assigned to one of five residential college: Rocky, Mathey, Wilson, Butler, or Forbes. For your freshman year you will live in whichever college. Your sophomore year, however, Whitman College will open, and all the rising sophomores in Butler will form the sophomore class of Whitman (the freshman class of Whitman will be '09ers). At that point, I'm not sure if they're renovating or razing Butler -- I ate breakfast with President Tilghman a few months ago, and at that point they weren't sure whether to give Butler a major renovation or just destroy it -- I think the latter would be better, eventually creating three larger four-year colleges (Whitman, Butler, Mathey) and three smaller two-year colleges, each of which is paired with a four-year sibling.</p>
<p>Whitman, when it opens, should be arguably the nicest college dorm in the country for at least a year or two; it's Gothic style, will have a nice quad, and is located close to the gym and reasonably close to Frist. I plan to try to RA there; if I can't, I'll probably live there as a junior and get a sweet draw time.</p>
<p>tunanfish--are you sure it's our sophomore year? The fall of 2007 is the 09ers' junior year. I don't think butler getting destroyed until we're juniors. I think that's what the dailyprincetonion said. I hope you're right though---cuz it would suck to live in Butler, but be amazing to live in Whitman.</p>
<p>im pretty sure they are behind schedule on the whitman construction and its supposed open a few years later</p>
<p>at this point the only "4 year plan residential college" is for whitman and the other 5 (rocky, mathey, butler, wilson, and forbes) will stay as 2 year plans. you have no choice as to which residential college you are placed in however the two most popular are mathey and rockefeller since they are the only two with real buildings and a real "residential college life." wilson is where masses hang out. if you want a suite such as MANY MANY roommates which lotsa girls love, wilson is where you will be. many roommates as in if you want 9 roommates in a room of 10. most people dont want forbes because its alienated from campus but ive heard u get use to it and butler is just old</p>
<p>they are planning on having whitman done for us. basically what happens now is undergraduates live in the residential system for 2 years and after that they move onto the "upper classmen" options which most people enjoy and take advantage of. the eating clubs are where all the parties are, especially ivy. so it really depends on what u want to do because u have to be a member of the eating club or know someone in the eating club to go to the party =P (u get a ticket)</p>
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If you decide to matriculate at Princeton, you will be randomly assigned to one of five residential college: Rocky, Mathey, Wilson, Butler, or Forbes.
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Are we randomly assigned to a res. college, or does it largely depend on our responses in the dorm selection forms?</p>
<p>I was incorrect on the opening date; Whitman will open in Fall of 2007 according to the Prince.</p>
<p>As far as residential colleges go, you are randomly assigned to them, and your housing preferences are considered after you're put into a college. Unfortunately, much of what shrek says is incorrect. Once Whitman opens, it, Butler, and Mathey will become larger, four-year colleges, each paired with a smaller two-year college. This will be done by renovating and expanding Butler and Mathey. Furthermore, all colleges have "real buildings" (?) and I cann attest that Wilson College has a college life. Also, after hearing about Mathey, right now I can safely say that Wilson is probably the second-best college, with Rocky comfortably first.</p>
<p>And while the colleges undoubtedly have differences, both Butler and Forbes have more singles than the other colleges. Forbes has the largest singles on campus, while Butler now has part of Bloomberg Hall, which opened last year.</p>
<p>yeah, butler, with its addition of bloomberg hall definately moved up in the ranks. And rocky now has holder. if only wilson would get renovated....</p>
<p>Wilson needs to be renovated. It looks so out of place. At least make the buildings uniform or something.</p>
<p>Yes, assignment is totally random. However, there is some disagreement as to whether putting certain answers on your housing sheet will affect the outcome of your placement (i.e. puttings "quad" as the room setup of choice helps get you into rocky/mathey while "more than four people" or something like that helps you get into butler/wilson). Some say it helps, some say it doesn't.</p>
<p>And your grades would have to drop significantly to get admissionss rescinded. That said, don't go out of your way to make that happen :p I dropped a class and have made a healthy crop of Bs this semester, and I'm still in...so I think it's okay :)</p>
<p>oooooooo when you applied what was your GPA? was it 4.0? because if you went from 4.0 to healthy crop of B's I'm going to breathe the huuugest sigh of relief. and then celebrate even more!!!</p>
<p>hehe i kept up my grades first semester, with all As still. (which i must say i was pretty surprised about), but this semester i already see the Bs a'comin</p>
<p>Yeah, I had a 4.0 (or a 3.97529384982739847298374 whatever, haha). They just want to make sure you don't flunk out of your courses or have a drastic drop in classroom performance (i.e. from all As to all Cs). Est</p>
<p>haha, nice shrek. i just don't care about school anymore. i have calc, econ, and english homework to do, and have i even looked at it yet (seeing as it's 11:52 pm)? nope. and i don't know if I will before I go to bed. I feel rebellious.</p>
<p><em>dons leather jacket and transition lenses</em></p>
<p>And e-cookies for procrastination. It's kind of funny how amusing procrastinating is. I almost would like to just film myself procrastinating, because it's funny all the things you come up with to barricade yourself from your work.</p>