<p>my daughter is looking for different options then the dorm room she is in for the remainder of the semester and next semester. one of the options given to her was stratford heights and the other was dabney. trying to gain some info good or bad to help her make her decision. right now she is in a quad on a DAAP floor in daniels hall and 2 of her room mates are horrible and do not respect my daughter and the other girl in the room. it is not my daughters doing because she has made tons of friends in the dorm and the other room mate in the room with her has also asked to have a room change. any info on stratford heights or dabney would greatly be appreciated. the room in dabney is a quad and there are 2 beds available. they won't give my daughter any more info on why the 2 beds in the quad have been vacated. hoping it is not for her to have the choice to move in and then find out the room mates are worse then the room mates she has now.</p>
<p>help...........trying to help her out with any advice i can give her.</p>
<p>i have heard that dabney does not have an elevator and the room offered to her is on the 4th floor. no a/c they have window units and the heat does not work well. i will tell her to take a pass on dabney.</p>
<p>I hope it works out for your daughter Daapmom. It sounds like a very bad situation, but if she can stick it out this year, she can move into housing either on campus, or off with friends of her choice.</p>
<p>i have heard that dabney does not have an elevator and the room offered to her is on the 4th floor. no a/c they have window units and the heat does not work well. i will tell her to take a pass on dabney. she was also offered stratford heights which are suite style dorm rooms considered part of on campus housing and located on clifton street. they would not tell her what building it would be in. she was also just told that there is another person in Daniels that wants to do a room swap. she is waiting to hear from the young lady at Daniels to find out why she wants to swap rooms. she doesn’t want to get into a worse scenario then she has in her present room. she is also first on the list in case someone does not return to Daniels next semester and she would be placed into that room.</p>
<p>Are they doing anything about the troublemakers in her room? What does the RA have to say about the two troublemakers? My daughter was in Stratford Heights for DaapCamp in Summer of 2013. Stratford is nice, but she stayed in one of the rear buildings and it was about as far from DAAP as is Daniels, but the rooms are very nice, as are the common areas.</p>
<p>they have met with the RA on her floor 3 or 4 times now. they are very angelic and act like they will change but as soon as they get back in the room they are back to the same thing. they are just very immature. she met with the girl from Daniels that wants to change her room. she is on the 2nd floor and told my daughter it is a big time party floor and her room mates are up till like 2am every day partying. so it is not a good situation for my daughter. there is a girl in the room next to her. one of the girls are never there because she is always at her boyfriends. they met last night and there is a good possibility this girl will switch rooms with her. she doesn’t want to leave Daniels since she has made some really great friends. Fingers crossed that the last situation I mentioned works out. if not she is top on the list for a room next semester. I had actually emailed president ono to let him know about the situation and yesterday I received a phone call from the VP of housing. I have yet to talk to him. maybe they will help my daughter out. </p>
<p>See if they’ll let her stay with some upperclassmen in Morgan’s if there’s room until the end of the year. Or see whether some older ID students might be able to have her live off campus with them with permission from the school. She’ll still have her friends from her classes and from daniels if they’re true friends. Good luck with the room switch next to her. That sounds promising too. </p>
<p>I currently live in Stratford, and they are very nice. I live in a suite with one roommate and share a bathroom with two other girls from the room beside ours. Deciding between the two would depend on what style of living she wants. Stratford has suite style bathrooms and bedrooms, Dabney has community bathrooms. Stratford is also newer than Dabney, but both of the locations are quite spacious. Stratford is also not directly on campus. The walk, however, from Stratford to campus is not far at all. I live deep into Stratford and it takes me at most 5 minutes to get on campus walking. Stratford is also fairly close to DAAP (I am not sure if it is closer or further than Dabney, but I would say that the difference in distance from DAAP between the two is not significant). Personally, I love Stratford. It is a little more closed off and not as “social” as the other dorms just because of its suite style rooms and location across from campus, but overall, living here has been a great experience!</p>
<p>she decided she has made so many friends on her floor that she is going to stay in her room and just deal with her room mates. she and 2 of her friends have already been touring apartments for next year. </p>