<p>I'm debating between the two. I have multiple friends from HS that will be staying in each. Which should I choose? </p>
<p>Here's what I want (in no specific order):</p>
<p>-Very social scene
-LOTS of attractive girls
-clean, very</p>
<p>All three could potentially be satisfied by any of the four high rises, Morrison/Craige/Ehaus/Hojo, or Granville. If you’re planning to go Greek or are pretty southern, choose Granville. Otherwise I’d pick South.</p>
<p>Not sure if I’m going Greek yet. I’m from NC, but not that southern…</p>
<p>Of the four high rises, which would you recommend and why?</p>
<p>Old Well: What does Granville have to do with being pretty southern?</p>
<p>Just my perception of a lot of people who live there. I didn’t mean it in a bad way at all. If I could do it again I would live there. </p>
<p>Of the four high rises I would choose Morrison.</p>
<p>How early should I send in a housing application? I understand that it may be on a first-come, first-serve basis. I’m still waiting on my FA decision though. Does FA have any bearing on where you stay?</p>
<p>^ No…</p>
<p>Granville for sure. That place is loads of fun, is in a great location, has parking, and the Agora is delicious.</p>
<p>Actually, the only good spot about the location is that it’s next to Franklin St. Other than that, the location is just as terrible as South Campus. I’d go Granville, just because it’s much nicer than the high-rises in South Campus. From what I’ve heard, it won’t put you under much more anyway.</p>
<p>There’s attractive girls in every residential place, and Granville is by far cleaning. Social scene is about the same. Then again, you ARE closer to Franklin St. at Granville. (:</p>
<p>I attended Explore Carolina and got the opportunity to visit a dorm on South Campus (Craige) as well as Granville. I must say, Granville is much more appealing: much nicer rooms, 4 people share a bathroom instead of 8, central air. Granville was almost like a hotel. On the other hand, Craige was filthy, run-down, and had 8 people sharing one bathroom. If Granville is a hotel, Craige is a motel. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, I didn’t get to experience the “better social life” at south campus. I only was exposed to one side of the dilemma: aesthetics. Can anyone speak on why/how the social life is better at south campus?</p>
<p>Granville used to be a hotel complex, I believe.</p>
<p>I read somewhere else in this forum that OOS students should stay out of Granville… but I wanna live there! It sounds like the best option next to the high rises. Anyone know if there’s any particular reason why?</p>
<p>^ Probably for social reasons? Since most freshmen are placed in South Campus.</p>
<p>Wth, why should OOS stay out of Granville? That’s idiotic.</p>
<p>^^^ really doesn’t matter if you’re oos at granville, i’m from texas and my sister stayed there last year and i’m signed up to stay there next year. i’ve stayed there twice and…
-everyone i saw was very social, always down to party
-girls are good, but like anywhere not always
-since many(most) people party in granville it isn’t always very clean, often you’ll find trash and other “fluids” in the hallway. a cleaning lady cums by once a week to everyones place and if there isn’t stuff on the floor or your sink, she’ll clean it</p>
<p>okay, so that model dorm room they have available in Craig for prospective students to see at the END of the Explore Carolina day is a marketing blunder. The building looks like a prison and the room like a cinder block cell. Sorry, but . . . aesthetically a rough visual with which to end an otherwise great day. </p>
<p>So for any of you who lived in those high rises, were you just so happy to be at Carolina that you could have cared less when you moved in to one of those rooms or did it take awhile to get used to your new environs? And, are there any ways other than choosing Granville or applying to the LLCs to lessen your chances of landing in one of the high rises? </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>We were appalled when we saw the sample dorm room (at that time it was in Morrison) and I remember saying that my dorm room 40 years ago was nicer. The strange thing is that most people end up really enjoy being in the high rises as weird as that may sound. The bonds formed in them tend to last all four years and beyond.</p>
<p>Interestingly, in our many campus tours for our two kids we saw plenty of dorms that were far worse. In fact a few schools wouldn’t even let you see actual dorm rooms, only common areas. At several schools we were among many wondering how they could get away with actually charging for the dumps we saw. Clemson had a dorm that smelled so badly from all the food being cooked in the rooms or floor kitchens (it apparently had many international students) that you could actually smell it before you got into the building. I can’t imagine that your clothes wouldn’t take on a permanent smell living in that place because we could smell it on our clothes after we walked out of the brief tour. Several Ivies and northeastern LACs had rooms that felt like tombs.</p>
<p>As bad as the UNC high rises might seem to us as parents, there are far worse out there.</p>
<p>Anyone know if housing is actually on a first come, first serve? Like SwaGGeReR, I’m also waiting on FA (though even if I get nothing, the chances of me going at UNC are pretty likely)</p>
<p>Its not on first come first serve. </p>
<p>It says on the housing website, “Housing is not first come, first served. All applications received before May 15 will be processed with equal priority.”</p>
<p>Equal priority sounds like it would make it first-come, first-serve. </p>
<p>Isn’t priority determined by LLC first, then class standing? I really have no idea.</p>