<p>my daughter just learned she'll be living in wheeler next year. can anyone provide any information about wheeler?</p>
<p>I just had room draw tonight also. A triple in Wheeler was my top pick and I got it! Yay! Wheeler is the BEST dorm for many reasons:</p>
<p>It is located right near the library and Novack Cafe. The rooms are pretty large, and all triples have a half-bath. The dorm has two study lounges and inside the hallways and stairwells are bright and airy. The kitchen is also fairly large. </p>
<p>I went to visit Wheeler twice today and I'm really excited to be living there next year.</p>
<p>Many years ago I lived in Wheeler. My freshman year I had a double with a fireplace. Winter term my sophomore year we had a two room triple. I loved the location and the character of the dorm...close to the library, the green, the Hop, etc.</p>
<p>It seems like quite a few of the 9's are living in wheeler. I just heard from one of my friends (parent of a former CC poster) who is also living in Wheeler and is really excited about it. He got a triple also :)</p>
<p>Hate to put a crimp in things, guys, but right now it looks like a lot of 09s aren't gong to get rooms. DD, most of her friends, and most of her floor haven't had rom draw yet, and the word is that there are very, very few rooms left.</p>
<p>Don't know what happened to the "guarantee".</p>
<p>Cangel,</p>
<p>I thought that many of the second year students were living in the fayerweathers.</p>
<p>Also what constitutes 'very few room" are there very few rooms period or are there very few rooms left in the "prime" sections?</p>
<p>As I remember last year, when housing wasn't guaranteed for sophmores, 08's who got rooms and were at the bottom of the room draw food chain were in the lodge and as you know the tree houses both which are supposed to be closed this year.</p>
<p>Well, the rumors of course are running wild, but the few sophs-to-be who have been to room draw, came back saying it did not appear that there were anywhere close to enough rooms left, and everyone was on the phone, internet, etc. looking for apartments. Pretty much her entire floor, and many of her friends have not yet been to room draw.</p>
<p>The word was that many more juniors than expected took rooms on campus, don't know if fewer are going abroad or other reasons. Could it be that they haven't opened the Fayerweathers yet, since the bulk of them were to be sophomore housing?</p>
<p>I told her to wait until she goes today - she actually has an "okay" number, at least better than some of her friends - before completely panicking. A lot of the anger was due to the fact that they had been "guaranteed" a room, so no one has done any apartment hunting unless they had other reasons to need off-campus housing.</p>
<p>I think what also happened is that they did not expect as many seniors to opt to live on campus this year because they ususally move off. I remember reading from one of the articles recently that they expect about 400 students to live off campus.</p>
<p>Now with the new 5 bedroom suites, many of the senors stayed on campus and grabbed up the new rooms in tuck mall. I guess it has been a trickle down from there. From what Chicky has told me she knows quite a few juniors that are going to be off campus at some time during the year. Some will be on fall term and off the rest of the year, while she and others are off until next spring.</p>
<p>the great thing about being an upperclassmen, is that you are only committed to living in your room for one term. Because there is a lot of movement, rooms open up in the winter and some students move then.</p>
<p>Even for students who got "shut out" of housing during room draw last year, many did have rooms before classes began in the fall.</p>
<p>you can see what vacancies are left on this website:</p>
<p>it looks like there are spots left for about 200 people. Don't forget though, a lot of people with low numbers paired up with people who went yesterday. For example, in the triple I'm in, two of us should have been drawing today, but our third roommate had a better number, so we drew with her.</p>
<p>Yeah, but there are 800 numbers still to go, even if 2/3rds end up being unused numbers you've got more than 200 people who need to pick. The question is if people are shut out, how will admin respond having guaranteed rooms. Unless you are correct, and 2/3rds of those numbers go unused, they could end up with a longer waiting list than last year.</p>
<p>Maybe they will have to keep the treehouses/lodge for another year?</p>
<p>That's what I was thinking - DD said they had sold the land to Tuck, but it sounds like a leaseback until this can be straightened out.</p>
<p>I think they only sold Hinman (which was freshmen only anyway) to Tuck. They just planned to tear the treehouses down cause no one liked living there? Not sure.</p>
<p>is there a message here for the '10's -- such as make sure to sign up for a FSP fall Q Soph year??????</p>
<p>or make friends with people who have good housing numbers :)</p>
<p>I think Garrr! has the right of it :), all of D's friends happen to have worse numbers than she does!
The issue is no one knew going into room draw what the impact of the new dorms would be. Housing still does not have enough beds for everyone, not even enough flex capacity, they just made an assumption about student behavior and went from there. Once the letter went out guaranteeing housing for sophs, a lot of kids assumed they would stay on campus so some of the looking for apartments that went on among people with bad numbers didn't happen. Plus a lot of the apartments evidently are "inherited" and this has disrupted the inheritance patterns - I know D already has a lead on a place for soph summer, for example. </p>
<p>I would think that the '10s will know how they stand housing wise as soon as they get their numbers. If 09s are left on a waiting list, I'm sure admin will not "guarantee" housing anymore - not to mention the irate letters and phone calls I'm sure they will get. Knowing you need to make alternative plans would have made a big difference in how D would have approached this situation. She's not like me, she's not a born procrastinator, she would have made contingency plans long ago. She also really does not want to have her car - Southern belle - which narrows the range of apartments. The 10s will probably benefit from the experience this year.</p>
<p>And, everything may well iron itself out tonight. D said there was a lot of re-negotiating going on.</p>
<p>There are exactly 126 beds left for girls. There are even fewer left for guys. ORL just sent out a blitz saying that 120 people will be left over, after all the beds get taken. Is this more or less than previous years?</p>
<p>With the guarantee they said that we may not "get the housing we want" Maybe I'm taking this the wrong way, but to me, that means "Sophmores get the old houses and get triples." Not "Sophmores have to leave campus for the summer without having a room assignment."</p>
<p>If I do get on the waitlist, should I look for an appartment? I have less than a month to organize that, and it's the end of the term, so I have lots of work to do. Not to mention trying to pack up my stuff and get it into storage without knowing where it will go in September. What happens if I don't get off the waitlist? I won't be able to constantly check my computer all summer trying to organize housing from Alabama. I really really really need to know where I'm going to live before I leave New Hampshire. I'm quite confused as to how I got into this position.
-Cangel's Daughter</p>
<p>Oh, and as long as we get housing and don't end up signing a year lease on an appartment, most of us intend to reapply for winter term. At this point, we don't even care if we get crappy housing. We just want on campus.</p>
<p>G,</p>
<p>I sent you a PM</p>
<p>There are no room # the 10's are assigned housing. </p>
<p>Remember a lot of them are living in the choates and on the river. A few will be in Ew, and some will be in the new housing.</p>