<p>I would love some opinions on the community style dorms. Why are they horrible? Is it because the bathrooms are down the hall? </p>
<p>I have read that the suite style rooms have shared bathrooms which have to be cleaned by suitemates and that many (especially the guys) don’t get cleaned well that often. I also read that in suites, the suitemates sometimes forget to unlock the bathroom doors so the otherside can get locked out. Are these the only negatives?</p>
<p>Other than the bathrooms, what are the big differences? My son is looking for a social dorm where he can meet people. He is thinking community style might be better. Would anyone choose Deviney? Thanks!</p>
<p>Here’s the thing: Dorms aren’t social just because of how they are designed. You as a resident have to make them social. Yes, community-style dorms are naturally going to be a bit more social, but that doesn’t mean that suite-style dorms aren’t social. A lot of the halls have events for the residents that are intended to make them social. If you feel like your dorm isn’t social, most likely, it’s because you aren’t making it social. </p>
<p>The community-style dorms on campus are often much more in need of an update than the suite-style dorms. There’s a reason that Deviney and Dorman halls are scheduled to be torn down and rebuilt within the next couple of years. All of the suite-style dorms are either relatively new (DeGraff, Wildwood), or were recently renovated. Compared to the community style dorms, they’re almost all brand new feeling (even though for example, Bryan Hall was initially built in 1907). The community-style dorms haven’t been updated in a long time.</p>
<p>There’s not many differences really between community-style and suite-style buildings. The rooms are often a bit larger in size in suite-style rooms, and they’re more updated. And unlike in Smith or Kellum, the beds in suite-style rooms aren’t built into the walls.</p>
<p>CLM 2017…with a priority number of 136 you most definitely will get Landis. My daughter was 120 last year and is an honor student and scored a great main level room. I’ve seen both Wildwood and Landis dorm rooms and they are basically identical. I think the thing my daughter loves about Landis is a close location to dining (Suwanee is a couple buildings away), the QUIET atmosphere and its location on Landis Green. She feels very lucky to be in Landis.</p>
<p>2013cheer…my daughter is a freshman in a sorority and lives in Landis which requires a meal plan so I can give you feedback on what I know. This past year the meal plan was $1390 per semester for girls who joined a sorority (90 meals plus $400 flex bucks). My daughter’s dorm required the meal plan (as do many of the east side dorms) so it has been expensive with sorority dues. Because of her schedule she eats dinner at the house M-Th and lunch most days…never breakfast. Her sorority typically does not offer meals on weekends for out of house girls (unless it’s a special occasion) so she eats on campus. All sororities are different in what they offer for meal plans. One thing I have noticed is that she likes to shake things up on occasion and will go off campus to one of the nearby restaurants on weekends just to get something different.
My advice would be to look seriously at Wildwood because you would be closer to the sorority houses, have a nicer/newer dorm room, enjoy a centralized location on campus, and not have to have a meal plan. DeGraff is also nice and doesn’t require a meal plan but it is somewhat far from the sorority houses which could be a problem when you are trying to utilize the meals you paid for at your sorority.</p>
<p>Slinger123 I don’t have enough posts (close?) to PM you but would love your input as my daughter is likely going to go to FSU, be in the Honors program AND go thru sorority rush. She will also need to be near the fine arts buildings. Thoughts on dorms from you would be GREAT.</p>
<p>Yes she applied for housing when she was accepted into the program - but that was recently as the school made decisions just a couple of weeks ago. She will be in the Musical Theatre program if she confirms her decision to select FSU.</p>
<p>And I mis spoke - she will be in performing arts.</p>
<p>If she just applied for housing a couple weeks ago, her best bet for living anywhere on the east side of campus is to apply to an LLC. East side dorms go quickly (mostly because most of them are small), so if she didn’t apply until a couple weeks ago, I can almost guarantee that the east-side dorms will have filled up by the time FSU’s system gets to her.</p>
<p>Keep in mind, too, that she only has about 45 more days to pay her admissions deposit for FSU, so she does need to decide whether she is going to attend FSU somewhat quickly.</p>
<p>LuvMTs, from what I’ve heard from friends in the Musical Theatre program, your daughter will be REALLY busy, so I’m not sure if she would have time for a sorority, which is very time consuming.</p>
<p>So I have to wait a few more days for the computer to update my status because I was offered summer term and not fall (which I applied for) … Would housing already be full ? (I hope not) or would I just get something crappy ?</p>
<p>Housing for Fall, if you can still apply, would likely still be available. They don’t typically cut off applications until they have around 9,000 freshman applicants. </p>
<p>You’d get a community-style dorm almost guaranteed, but you would get some sort of Housing. If you don’t like one of the community dorms, look into one of the FSU Housing Living-Learning Communities.</p>
<p>I enjoy your posts, Pasbal. I’m puzzled by your comment about “Housing for Fall, if you can still apply…” Decisions for admission come out March 20, and you can’t apply for housing until you’ve been accepted. I’m assuming the only Fall Freshmen who have applied for housing are the ones who got in early decision. Correct? If so, how could it be that hard for those who are waiting for a decision March 20? Are there that many who got in early decision?</p>
<p>You may want to check on line for your decision now as it could be there. My daughter checked on March 15, and her decision was available. She was able to then complete her housing application as well.</p>
<p>How does this housing application thing work? I was also accepted RD and the website said that housing priority numbers are awarded based on the order the housing contracts are filled out. But it also said that there is a housing deposit and that the contract is a “financial obligation” to pay rent? Does that mean you shouldn’t fill it out if you’re not certain about FSU?</p>
<p>If you sign up for housing and pay the deposit ($225) within 10 days, you will get a priority number. If you don’t attend FSU, you have to cancel your contract, and you will get the deposit back less $50 if you cancel by May 1 I think. If you wait longer to decide, then you get back less money. </p>
<p>If you do attend FSU, you are obligated to live on campus. </p>
<p>The priority numbers are deceiving, since many people have lower numbers that will not be attending FSU. So if your number is in the 6000s, there are way less than 6000 people ahead of you in line, since many of those numbers were given to people who end up at different schools. They give out way more numbers than will be used.</p>
March isn’t really “regular” decision. A large portion of FSU’s acceptances come from their December decision date, which is more of the regular decision date than March. </p>
<p>In recent years, Housing opened up the same date that the December admissions decisions were handed out. By now, there were often well over 7000 people applying for Housing. Yes, a number of them didn’t attend FSU, or didn’t pay their deposit, or something, and lose their spot in line. Typically it takes around 9,000 freshman applications to fill up Housing, with around 5100 spots- so that’s definitely a high number of people that end up giving up their priority number. </p>
<p>Yes, there really are that many that get in in December. Even if FSU only accepted half of their total acceptances in December, they would still accept around 8,000 applicants or so. It would only take around 63-66% of that 8,000 (63% being way higher than normal, of course) applying for Freshman housing and keeping their spot for the freshman spots to be completely full. </p>
<p>Nolette makes a very good and very important point here. If you apply for Housing at FSU, and decide that you are going to attend, you are obligated to pay for the spot you are given. A VERY small number of people may be granted release from their contract, but keep in mind this is very difficult to be granted, and you should not rely on being granted this release. You are signing a legal contract (or, if you’re under 18, you’re signing it with your parents), which you are legally bound to uphold. If you aren’t sure about FSU, or you aren’t sure about living on campus, it’s probably a better idea to not apply. (I have to apologize here- my entering class was the last one where getting out of your contract was relatively simple and you just forfeited a portion of your deposit. I wouldn’t be surprised if we had too many cancellations and Housing freaked out and changed that.)</p>
<p>I signed my daughter up for housing in Jan, the moment it opened by 9am. Her priority number is under 190. She got that number right away. I then had 10 days to pay the deposit. If I didn’t I would lose the number. I paid about 3 days later and her number and contract are official. We can only get out of it if she were not to attend FSU. She can still go back and change dorm choices until May 1.</p>