<p>Other than that it's affectionately called Cockintosh? No. I was mostly friends with other North Quad students. Cockrell-McIntosh is in the South Quad. The South Quad is nearer the stadium, the gym, and the bookstore, but it's farther from most of the academic and administrative buildings.</p>
<p>I can't decide between "Cockintosh" and Peyton. Is the north quad filled with all of the artsy-fartsy kids?</p>
<p>My D is a student at SMU--one of her majors (as a 2st year) was in Meadows. She knows lots of the "artsy-fartsy" crowd and one of the main dorms for them is Peyton.</p>
<p>I don't think that's true of Cockrell-McIntosh, but someone else may know for sure.........</p>
<p>i had heard the term before. just like i have heard of boaz hoes.</p>
<p>Mary Hay and Peyton are the North Quad dorms that are right next to the Owen Fine Arts Center (home of Meadows, the fine arts school). They make up the Fine Arts Community, so lots of Meadows kids live in those dorms.</p>
<p>The other two are Shuttles, which isn't great, and the Honors Dorm, Virginia-Snider. On the other side of campus, with the frat houses, is the SMU Service House (SMUSH), which is still a North Quad dorm.</p>
<p>I lived in Virginia one year, Snider one year, and the SMUSH for two years.</p>
<p>How is Virginia-Snider? Did you like living there? What are the advantages and disadvantages of staying there?</p>
<p>I'm sure you want to hear from an actual student that lives/lived there, but my D lived there last year. She felt the experience was pretty good (although she picked the roommate from hell). However, that wasn't the fault of the dorm. She's a serious student who does like to party and felt she could accomplish the studying in her dorm. Many of her friends had dorms that were alot noisier and probably a little more social. But she didn't want to give up the ability to study in her suite.</p>
<p>She also commented that she was on the 1st floor and that the basement was a "more fun" group of students. Her hall didn't have as many rooms on it, so was more limited in the # of kids.</p>
<p>It's in a great location...right across from the dining hall and relatively close to the student center. It was also a good location for her classes which were comprised of the sciences and also some in Meadows.</p>
<p>Hope that helps a little.</p>
<p>Can't add that much more to what curiouser said.</p>
<p>My first year I was in Virginia, on the first floor. It was so convenient for moving in since there are only two elevators (and three narrow stairwells) and everybody is moving in at the same time, so being on the first floor (the ground floor) was much easier. Remember it'll be really hot outside when you're moving in too!</p>
<p>Virginia side sucks because it's community bath. On the guys' side there are two showers and two toilets in the bathroom. Luckily you have sinks and mirrors in your rooms so you can put in your contacts, brush your teeth, and do your hair in your room. But you often have to wait for the toilets or showers to become available. And of course there were the lovely times when someone would leave a mess (vomit or what have you) in the community bathroom, usually on the weekend when nobody was there to clean it up. Also, the first floor bathrooms were always being used by people who were coming in and out of the building. This also means that it's usually loud in the hallways because of all the foot traffic. The room setup is strange. Two bedrooms flank a common room. Only that common room has access to the hallway. It's true that there are fewer rooms on the first floor. Not much of a community. That floor also has a TV room and the coin machine for the laundry.</p>
<p>Snider side is way better. (Virginia and Snider used to be separate dorms but now they are connected on all the floors.) The rooms there are set up differently. Both bedrooms flank a very small common room that also has the bathroom. Both bedrooms have doors that open to the hallway. With suite bath, you're only sharing the bathroom with your three suitemates, so it's much less of a hassle. And the cleaning staff still clean your bathrooms for you. Since the suites each have their own bathrooms, the hallways are actually arranged with alternating-sex suites: one suite of guys, then one suite of girls. There are more rooms too, so there are more people around you, but of course Virginia and Snider are totally connected, so it's easy to go visit whoever you want to. The hallways are really long too, so they're fun to run down. I lived on the third (top) floor that year.</p>
<p>The second and third floors each have a study lounge with tables and couches. Usually one lounge will be designated a quiet lounge and the other a group study lounge. It's pretty easy to get work done there. There are also microwaves (you can't have ones in your room). In the basement are the crappy computer lab and the room with the ping-pong table and out of tune piano, as well as the coke machines and the laundry rooms. The basement kids seem to have the most fun.</p>
<p>If you're in the Honors program, you can choose to have your freshman writing class IN the Virginia-Snider study lounges, which seems to be really popular. This dorm is also right across from the North Quad cafeteria (Umphrey Lee) and is the closest to basically all the academic buildings except for the fine arts one. I would have hated living in the South Quad as a science major, since those buildings are in the extreme north end of campus. It's also closest to the main Quad and the Student Union.</p>
<p>Living in V-S was a great way to spend my first two years. The people who start there end up being the ones who you'll later see becoming presidents of student clubs and fraternities and being leaders on campus. When we were graduating and getting special awards, I was amazed at how many of the honorees were people who had lived in V-S with me. Yeah, it's not the swingingest dorm to live in, but it's good for the people who are serious about their educations, and you'll make great friends there. I highly recommend it. Parking sucks.</p>
<p>Well i'll just start off by saying that I just wrote my letter of regret to SMU, i'm turning down their honors program and 10k/yr scholarshipo, really hope i'm making the right decision.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Top three things you like about SMU.
People outside of Dallas think its comparable to schools such as USC
Recruiting opportunities
Other opportunites presented simply because of money</p></li>
<li><p>Top three things you dislike about SMU.
Its in Dallas, i've been living in Dallas for my whole life and I don't think it would be suiting to living as a college student
It has far more than its fair share of elitist *******s there simply looking for a good wife</p></li>
<li><p>Rank the friendliness of the general student body, 1-5. 1 being the least friendly, 5 being the most.
Ranges WIDELY, plenty of 1's and i'm sure plenty of normal 4's and 5'</p></li>
<li><p>Which dorms are the best for first-years to meet other first-years?
No idea, i would have been in Virginia(?) Hall or wherever the honors group is mainly housed</p></li>
<li><p>How common is it for first-years to get a suite-style dorm?
From my visit i learned suite style dorms arent necessarily a good thing, i'd prefer the community style(gets cleaned daily)</p></li>
<li><p>How helpful are the professors? Please explain or give a personal example.
No idea</p></li>
<li><p>How is the partying scene?
Some of the people i know that go there tend to call their (still in) highschool friends looking for stuff to do... it gets pretty pathetic, but these kids don't fit into the southern elitist filthy rich group, so that may be the issue </p></li>
<li><p>If you don't join a frat/sorority, are you looked down upon by those who have joined?
duno</p></li>
<li><p>Please rank the general enthusiasm and spirit among students for the school, 1-5. 1 being the lame and boring, 5 being lively, happy, spirited.
duno</p></li>
<li><p>Additional comments/stories/experiences. </p></li>
</ol>
<p>It was hard, but I pulled myself away from the good name that SMU has and put my deposit into Trinity University where (for Biology) i KNOW i'm going to get a much better education. SMU is right for some people, not right for others. Its one of those places that you WILL know right away if your comfortable if you visit. Best of luck to all of you who will be attending next year and i hope my comments haven't offended anyone. Its just what i've gathered from living arround SMU all my life and what i've heard from people that I know who attended(and usually transfered out after the first year).</p>
<p>flashback, i just did the same thing:(</p>
<p>tough, but as you said SMU is for some, not for others</p>
<p>I got the feeling that if i went to school there, i'd be working in dallas and living there right after i graduated. Wasn't sure that was what i wanted.</p>
<p>its ok mandolin . flashback just needed the opportunity to brag about turning down all this honors scholarship offers.. because their just thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat good.</p>
<p>I was accepted early action class of 2011 yesterday. I applied for the Hunt Leadership Scholarship and think my chances for the other large scholarships(Deans, Presidents etc.) are good. When will I know which scholarships I am being considered for?</p>
<p>I got in EA too. How do I know if I got into Cox?</p>
<p>can u guys all please just post your stats for the rest of us...it would be greatly appreciated</p>
<p>SAT:
Verbal:760 Math:740 Writing:740</p>
<p>National Merit Semi-finalist SIS:218</p>
<p>AP scholar:
scores
World History:4
English:5
US History:5</p>
<p>Rank: 18/600
Gpa 3.94/4.0</p>
<p>Tons of extra-curriculars: including captain of debate and mock trial teams and VP of philosophy club</p>
<p>I was homeschooled K-9</p>
<p>Applied to Rice, Wake Forest, and Texas A&M</p>
<p>I got a combined 2160 on the SAT, 3.91/4.00 GPA, school doesn't rank :)</p>
<p>I'm undecided but I put business as my major on my application and I've gotten in EA and already I've gotten stuff from Cox saying I'm a "business scholar" and then another letter today asking me to apply for the LINK program which would put be in the MBA program in four years.</p>
<p>I've never heard of this link program and I couldn't find anything about it on the website... do y'all know anything about it? how good it is, how many students are invited/admitted? same question for the business scholars program</p>
<p>Business Scholars is an excellent program which admits around 100 students per year (I believe) to the business school as freshmen, allows entry into the Business Scholars seminar, and gives access to all the business school resources that you normally wouldn't get to use until you get admitted to Cox as an upperclassman.</p>
<p>I don't know much about LINK, but it will provide you with both a BBA and MBA, I believe.</p>
<p>I was invited to apply for LINK as well and from the information I got in the mail, it seems that if you maintain a 3.5 and do 2 internships and graduate from SMU within 5 years, you are guaranteed a spot in the MBA entering class.</p>