<p>Housing app opens up tomorrow. This is my current list (ranked in order):</p>
<ul>
<li>Wildwood (Isn't Wildwood the one that opened up in 2012/2013?)</li>
<li>Broward</li>
<li>Reynolds</li>
<li>Cawthon / Degraff (?)</li>
<li>The other dorms (the not so good ones).</li>
</ul>
<p>I'm an incoming freshaman (fall).</p>
<p>And advice would be greatly appreciated on my dorm selections!</p>
<p>Define best. </p>
<p>What is the best to you or I will likely not be the best to someone else.</p>
<p>Personally, I think that all of the suite-style dorms are better than the community ones. Just due to the fact that most of them are either newer or have been more recently renovated than the community dorms.</p>
<p>I then think that Wildwood is personally my favorite of the suite dorms, because it’s pretty centrally located.</p>
<p>Younger sister is now @ FSU and she spent her freshman year @ Broward and she enjoyed it very much. Great campus location, next to Hogwarts (dining hall), small, clean and recently refurbished. The only drawback is that my sis managed a large double, but there are several corner doubles within Broward that are very small.
Wildwood is nice and similar to Broward but much larger, closer to football stadium and far away from dining.
Cawthon- very similar to Broward and same general location.
Degraff is a new and large dorm but across the street from campus along all the dive bars and next to McDonalds. Located nearest to student union but far walk to dining hall.
Recommendations-
Any suite style double-
Broward, Cawthon
AVOID AVOID AVOID the communal style dorms, ( the cheap ones)</p>
<p>I lived in Reynolds. Personally wished I had chosen Salley since they have one room for beds, and one room with desks and such in it. I was in a triple in Reynolds which would have been fine if one of the roommates didn’t go to bed at 5 am then sleep until 5 pm the next day…EVERY day. So I would not be able to fall asleep when she was doing her nails at 4 am, and then in the daytime we would have to keep the lights off (yeah, dumb I know), and my other roommate and I had to live basically live in Strozier. It was ridiculous, but I wished I had just picked Salley.</p>
<p>@Pasbal. Best as in the best condition / what’s newest? I just don’t want to be stuck in a depressing dorm for a year. “Socialness” doesn’t make up for a “bad” environment. Apparently Smith, Deviney, Kellum and Dorman.</p>
<p>@ilovethe47 DEGRAFF is the new one. I guess I was mistaken then. I actually toured FSU last year but didn’t catch the name of the new dorm. So now it’ll be hard deciding between Broward, Wildwood and Degraff then. Definitely going suite style. Errr still hard.</p>
<p>@torioreo Weird, I was going to choose Reynold (and still might). I haven’t heard anything about Salley. I’m hoping that what you experienced was just because of those people.</p>
<p>So my updated list is:</p>
<p>Broward (Friends going there.)
Wildwood
Degraff
Cawthon
Reynolds
[Communal Dorm]</p>
<p>Anyone else have any experiences?</p>
<p>The newest dorm is Traditions, but you can’t live there as a freshman. It was just finished being built last year. Then in 2007, they finished both Wildwood and DeGraff. Those two are damn near exact replicas of each other, except in different locations. If I had to pick between the two, I’d probably (and really, did, when I was a freshman) choose Wildwood, since it’s more centrally located than DeGraff (only thing DeGraff really has over Wildwood is that it’s closer to the Union). </p>
<p>After that, I’d go with the east-side renovated dorms, like Gilchrist, or Reynolds or Bryan or Broward. Really, any of them. Bryan Hall requires joining that living-learning community, and Reynolds requires signing a wellness agreement, so those two might be less desirable for you.</p>
<p>With Broward though, you need an amazingly low priority number to get in. It’s a tiny building (~135 people) compared to say Wildwood or DeGraff (700 people). Pretty much, if you don’t fill out your application the first day (when I’m expecting that around 1000 people will apply for Housing), don’t bother applying for Broward.</p>
<p>Yeah, my bad experience was because of the one person, so if you know the person you’re living with, you may be okay! Just beware that you <em>may</em> have a bad roommate. At least it didn’t get to the point where I wanted to move out, but I may have had a better freshman year if I had. It was just hard to do anything because I was in an LLC there!</p>
<p>Anyone able to login yet for housing.</p>
<p>The best dorm is subjective because it really is about who your roommate(s) is/are. You can live in an okay dorm but have awesome roommates and it makes everything better. Or you could live in a great dorm and have a terrible rooming situation that will leave a sour taste in your mouth and tell everyone how hell-ish that dorm was.
Most freshmen never really hang out in their dorms anyway. I see a lot of them hang outside their dorms with their roommates and/or friends.</p>
<p>@papertiger87: Yeah, my friends are hoping to get into Broward. Their parents applied for them this morning (around 10am - 12pm) and they got priority numbers 14xx & 18xx. I applied just 20 minutes ago (I literally rushed home to get this done), and I got #2498. </p>
<p>So as for 1000 people on the first day, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha I wish. :/</p>
<p>I’m hoping that a significant number of people before me are actually gunning for Landis / Gilchrist and that another bunch of them will get accepted to other schools and decide to go there over FSU. in April / March / May.</p>
<p>My final choices were:</p>
<p>Broward
Wildwood
Degraff
Cawthon
Salley
Reynolds</p>
<p>P.S. Anyone know anything about Salley? I heard it was comparable to Reynolds.</p>
<p>I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but with a number above 1500 (much less nearly 2500), you aren’t going to get into Broward. Housing repeatedly says that Broward is often the first dorm building to fill up. </p>
<p>The entire “let’s not open housing at the same time that we let everyone run to find out whether they were accepted or not” idea that Housing had has really backfired. The system in recent years has only had to handle around 1000 people the first day, not 1000 people within the first hour or so. I’m not sure what made them think the system was anywhere near capable of handling what happened, if it isn’t ever able to handle just a normal first day rush. </p>
<p>It’s beyond astounding to me that 2500 people have applied for housing today. I bet Housing didn’t expect it either. </p>
<p>Salley is often regarded as the least preferable suite-style dorm, because of its age, and the setup (though many people say that the whole separate bedroom and study area setup is what they like most about Salley). It’s also usually the last suite-style dorm to fill up. It’s not really comparable to Reynolds, or really any other building. It’s sort of its own style, in a way.</p>
<p>At 2500, your best bet would be Wildwood or DeGraff, because they’re such large buildings. I’m betting that a good number of people ahead of you will go into Landis or Gilchrist with the Honors stuff.</p>
<p>You might also want to look into a living-learning community, which guarantees you to live in the Hall where the community is located (if you are accepted to the community). </p>
<p>If you want into Wildwood, they have a couple different LLCs that might interest you.</p>
<p>@Pasbal: Yeah right now I’m really not counting on getting into Broward. I hate that they opened the app on a Tuesday at 8/9AM so I’ had to wait until 2:50 to get it done (my mom’s practice is all the way in another town 45 minutes away so she’s gone by 7:45 too).</p>
<p>Fingers tightly crossed for Wildwood. I’d love Degraff too, since it’s new.</p>
<p>Landis suits 403.
Gilchrist 229.
Broward 135.</p>
<p>That’s 767 spots already. Assuming everything is setup “perfectly” in that all those first students get those houses, I’d be at 1731. Degraff and Wildwood hold 1400. I’m probably going to get into Cawthon (which I see appears to be okay).</p>
<p>I’ll look into the LLCs.</p>
<p>So mad I didn’t stay home at 8AM to get this app in.</p>
<p>Cawthon goes quickly too, because almost all of the spots there are reserved for LLCs.</p>
<p>Thanks. Now I’m desperately going to start praying for Wildwood or Degraff.</p>
<p>Then Cawthon (no hope probably).
Then Reynolds.
Then Salley.
If no dice, then I guess it’s going to be a communal dorm then (which apparently are horrible but social).</p>
<p>I also have a question about the dorms.</p>
<p>I got priority number 136, so I think it’s safe to say that I will most likely get into whichever dorm I put down as my number one. Right now I have Landis and Gilchrist as my number one and two choices because I’m going to be a part of the Honors College.</p>
<p>Do you all think Landis is the best option for me? Or is Wildwood that much nicer?</p>
<p>Jamal, you will end up in one of those choices. There’s over 3600 suite-style spots on campus, and there aren’t 1100 spots reserved for LLCs in those dorms. </p>
<p>CLM2017, it’s pretty much personal preference. If you’re going to buy a meal plan, then Landis is fine because it’s required to live there. If you’re hesitant, or not wanting to buy one, then Wildwood is going to be better, as it does not require a meal plan.</p>
<p>My priority number is 2178 and my list priorities of dorms are:
Wildwood
Degraff
Broward
Cawthon
Gilchrist
Jennie Murphree
I would like to get into one of those dorms but mainly I just want a double or triple suite and NOT a community style dorm room. Do you think I will get any of my preferences?</p>
<p>My priority is in low 200’s. I do not want a meal plan for I am thinking of joining a sorority which basically has a meal plan. Any thoughts on this and how it works.</p>
<p>I did see there is a reduced meal plan if you join a sorority with a meal plan, but heard it was still pretty expensive.(and they do not show price on website) Does anyone know the cost, have experience with this?</p>
<p>Wildwood or Degraff???</p>
<p>Which should I choose and why?</p>
<p>Thank you so much!!!</p>
<p>If you don’t want to live in a dorm that requires a meal plan, don’t put any of them down on your housing application. Neither Wildwood or Degraff require a meal plan. Put them down on your application as 1-2 and you won’t have to worry about having a required meal plan.</p>
<p>As for which one’s better, they’re literally identical buildings, just in different locations. If you would rather be closer to the Student Union (and the northern side of campus), pick Degraff. If you’d rather be closer to the south side of campus and the stadium and the gym and wellness center, pick Wildwood.</p>
<p>Hate everyone who got a way lower number than me. (Haha, not really. Okay, maybe just a little.)</p>
<p>@sarahjessica95: I’m going by what Pasbal said, so I’m going to say you’re safe for suite style dorms. I can’t be any more specific because I might not be right!</p>
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