<p>I've been looking at the housing page for Rice (housing.rice.edu). It doesn't have any information about the Rice rooms. Do freshmen get single/double/triple or quad rooms? Are there any plans/photos of the rooms?</p>
<p>one other thing, can u reply to Rice online?</p>
<p>i think all the residential colleges have different setups, so it mostly depends on which college you get put into. when i went to vision weekend, my host (at lovett) had a double that shared a bathroom with only one other room, but i remember visiting other colleges that shared bathrooms with the whole floor, and colleges with a common room for every 2 doubles (baker? i think?) so its all different.</p>
<p>Can you request for a specific res college or is it random/draw? Also, are there any single rooms?</p>
<p>can u choose to enroll and accept the fin aid package online? I cant find it if its there :|</p>
<p>you can only request residential colleges if you have a sibling who already goes to rice, and i think there are some single rooms but theyre mostly reserved for upperclassmen. i dont know about enrolling online, i think you might have to send the papers in.</p>
<p>ok thanks for all the info...</p>
<p>hey, I attended the weekend and I did an overnight at Baker. You are randomly assigned to the college, and then you take a survey to get roommates. I stayed in a quad wich was really nice. It had a large common room (bigger than most typical dorm rooms) and then two rooms were connected to that, each with two beds and two desks. Then that room was connected to another room identical to it by a bathroom with two showers, two toilets and two sinks. I thought it was really nice.</p>
<p>if we already turned in the sir, when should we find out what college we were put in?</p>
<p>You know in July.</p>
<p>Except if you are an international in India--then you never know. Or rather, know one week before you leave. Given difficult rain conditions.</p>
<p>Each college is different. In the South colleges and the older buildings, there tend to be two quads connected by a bathroom. Each quad has two doubles and a common room. Its a decent size. Freshmen are usually assigned to quads or triples (or hexes if the colleges have them), I think. Each college assigns rooms differently, too.</p>
<p>hummer, u mean international in mumbai.. difficult rain conditions are rare
in Chennai :D</p>
<p>What are the chances of a freshman getting a single at Rice?</p>
<p>Luvbug3009 is partly right -- you can request to be in specific residential college for legacy reason, but you can also request NOT to be in specific residential college.<br>
BTW, the junior "lottery" is stacked, so unless you are an athlete plan to move off campus.</p>
<p>Magd - I heard it was slim to none, because they go mostly to seniors.</p>
<p>kiteboard4life -- thanks for the info. Shame there aren't any singles, but at least you've helped me rule out Rice. My list of potential colleges to which I may apply in the fall, is getting shorter....</p>
<p>So wait, is there no chance of a junior obtaining on-campus housing?</p>
<p>Having a single your freshman year would be a bad idea regardless. Having a roommate and suitemates encourages socialization (indeed a lot of your socialization, friends, etc. can come from the people you live with). Plus there's someone to make sure you go to class/ get your work done, or on the flipside, make sure that's not all you do. Besides, learning to live with someone else you've never met before is part of the traditional college experience, and you wouldn't want to deprive yourself of that. Magd, surely you can't rule out a great university simply because you're aprehensive about rooming with someone. Rice does a good job of matching incoming freshmen with roommates. But if you feel like you just can't possibly live with someone else, then I think you might have bigger problems to worry about than where you're going to college.</p>
<p>To Nspeds: I wouldn't say that's true. If you absolutely want to stay on campus, you can probably make that happen. That said, I'm a freshman and I'm pretty sure I'll be living off campus junior year. It's not that I'm sure I won't have a chance to stay on (I probably could), but that I think by junior year I will be ready to live off campus for a change (and come back on senior year).</p>
<p>my interviewer told me that if you REALLY want to ensure on-campus-housing junior year it helps to become an officer (or something?) in your residential college because then you automatically have to live on campus. just a thought</p>
<p>or CCA (Campus Computing Associate, i.e. tech help for your college) if you're into computers. Plus it's an actual job that pays pretty well (and doesn't require a whole lot of time outside of the first few weeks.) They're guaranteed housing and get to be on campus during O-week.</p>