<p>I’m a new member of the class of 2014, and I’m wondering which dorm hall is your favorite and why. As for Centennial and Nebraska - feel free to weigh in with them, but I’d like advice on dorms I can live in my freshman year. :D</p>
<p>My son is in Anderson, which he loves. The one problems is that Verizon Wireless has no coverage in the north side dorms (Anderson, Letts & Centennial.)</p>
<p>In my opinion the Northside dorms are preferable. Hughes is partly used for the honors program. McDowell Hall is good and a little quiter than Anderson and Letts. Be aware that 60%-70% percent of the freshman will be in triples at the start of the school year.</p>
<p>My d. seems to have loved Leonard, primarily because of all the international students. She gets to speak Arabic with some (and find help with her homework), Spanish with others. It is also close to Katzen, so she can get to practice piano more often. She works in SIS, and has never even mentioned distance issues. She had the opportunity to move to the northside, and decided against (too noisy in her opinion.)</p>
<p>My son is in Anderson in a UC and has loved it. His floor seems to be tamer than the hall’s reputation.</p>
<p>We have Verizon but have had no problems, maybe because he has the bed next to the window?</p>
<p>I’m in the class of 2014 as well, and I chose Anderson. I was wondering how the random roommate selection works. Since I’m ED and our deposit is due 3 months earlier the RD, will I be placed with another ED candidate as a roommate?</p>
<p>I believe that roommate assignments aren’t made until the class is completed (after May 1), so my guess is that there is no process for matching ED’ers, though getting your deposit in so early will hopefully keep you from being tripled. My D’s roommate situation kept changing—early on she got the names of her two assigned roommates and made contact; the three seemed to get along swimmingly, made plans about a fridge, printer and room decor. Then late in the summer one of them decided to defer, and a new girl replaced her. And when D arrived on campus to move in, she was informed that the other original roomie had decided not to attend, and another new girl was put in the room. So much for plans! Ultimately the girls were detripled a few weeks into the year. I guess the lesson is to be flexible and expect anything. D is on an Honors floor in Hughes (north side), and likes the location because it’s across the street from Katzen, where she spends a lot of her time.</p>
<p>D spent the first semester in McDowell and liked it a lot. Nice floor, nice people. However in the detripling process at the end of the semester she moved to Hughes and that looks good too. She likes it better than the other side of campus as its more convenient to the buildings that she is in most of the time. Also its prettier, I think.</p>
<p>D1 is a junior and spending this year studying abroad. For her first-year housing, she originally put Leonard as her first choice, but she ended up joining a “University College” (AU’s first semester freshman year living-learning program) program that was housed in Letts Hall, so that’s where she was assigned. Despite her relatively bookish nature, she was fine in the south side complex and chose to remain in Letts for her sophomore year. Like katytibbs’ S, D also had reception problems with her Verizon cell phone, and we ended up switching her phone service to AT&T.</p>
<p>Leonard, hands down. McDowell smells funky and Hughes is too quiet. :)</p>
<p>I lived in Leo last semester. McDowell freshman year. Loved both</p>
<p>When do you submit your name in lottery for sophomore year???</p>
<p>Your daughter has the same access to that information as every other student. Why don’t you ask her?</p>
<p>"When do you submit your name in lottery for sophomore year??? "</p>
<p>Silly question. There’s no lottery for exiting transfers.</p>
<p>“Your daughter has the same access to that information as every other student. Why don’t you ask her?”</p>
<p>That’s simple. There is no daughter to ask.</p>
<p>I think Cadmom’s question sheds light on all of Caddaughter’s alleged problems.</p>
<p>Caddaughter is just too immature to live in a college environment…and her mom intends to keep her that way.</p>
<p>No wonder Caddaughter can’t get along with a roommate or get asked on a date. Much less ask out a male who she finds interesting …Like an elementary-age school girl, she still needs mommy to plan her playdates for her, and for mommy to plan and organize the activities as well.</p>
<p>If she can’t even figure out how to register for next year’s housing without mommy doing it for her, it’s obvious that she can’t figure out how to get the help she needs with her alleged scheduling issues…it’s clear from this that the problem is that she doesn’t know how to get the information she needs to register properly–the problem is not with AU.</p>
<p>Is there a substance-free or a “healthy living” type dorm or floor at American?</p>
<p>No, there is not. But generally, north side tends to be less raucous.</p>
<p>Boysx3:</p>
<p>Please stop the bullying of me and the insulting of my daughter. As you can see from the lack of posters and from my private messages, that posters are not interested in the parents’ thread because of your aggressive attempts to censor my posts and others who try to express an opinion different than yours.</p>