<p>billcsho, I see. I guess they must have turned singles into doubles, doubles into triples. Or they have typos on the dorm description pages. Since the math doesn’t work when you add up what they say the capacity of these various dorms are, and compare that number to 60% of freshmen. It doesn’t matter to me, except I like to understand and hard for me to give up once it seems not to fit. Stupid of me, since I don’t even have a kid there.</p>
<p>It would be hard to turn a double into triple room. However, they may allocate more NW housing to freshmen and that is most students’ worry.</p>
<p>Must be a typo on their housing pages somewhere. If you add up all the spaces they list in Baits, Bursley, and NW1/2/3, assuming all freshmen and not a single upperclassmen in any building it’s 570 + 1270 + 670 + ‘hundreds’ = 2510 + ‘hundreds.’ The ‘hundreds’ is NW1/2 that is supposedly reserved for upperclassmen only. 1270 is Bursley which is supposedly mixed. But even if they changed these to all freshmen, it still doesn’t add up to 60%, unless the buildings are 20% over capacity. They claim NW4/5 are exclusively for grad students and families.</p>
<p>OP, I’m sorry I hijacked your thread here, didn’t mean to diverge. I’m done, apologize. Have to dig up more scholarships to make it up to you.</p>
<p>That’s fine, I’m fascinated by this. We weren’t looking at big schools at all, but the idea of a completely free ride at U Michigan or UNC Chapel Hill may make up for that. My earlier comment about U Michigan being to big - I didn’t realize how big UNC was. We’re doing the deep dive on these schools now.</p>
<p>The free rides at UNC and UMIch are not very plentiful.</p>
<p>^ Free rides at any top oos public schools are not plentiful except for those that sponsor NMS. On the other hand, music prodigies are not plentiful either.</p>
<p>Thank you for starting this thread! </p>