<p>Hi [:
I am currently a student at Bowling Green State University and am looking to transfer here. Any suggestions on where to live? are there any single dorms with no roommates but suit mates? maybe apartment living style?!
Thanks!</p>
<p>When will you be transferring and what year will you be in? The higher the grade- the better the chance for probably better housing. However, singles or suites style may be difficult because they will probably consider returning students request first and then transfers and incoming Freshman. However, if they do place you in a less desirable dorm, you should try what they call "summer swap"to try to get a better location. BU does have suites and student apartments. Thier newest dorms Student Village 1 and 2 which are suite style rooms. In these rooms, there will be a combination of singles and doubles who share a common area, bathroom, full-kitchen. They also call other rooms “suites” where there are two rooms that share a private bathroom. Other than these, the dorms are traditional dorm style rooms- usually coed that share a hall bathroom (one for boys, one for girls). There are large dorms with 500+ students and smaller brownstones. I, personally, liked living in a Brownstone on Bay State. These are much less institutional. My son is currently a student there and he says that amongst his friends, they prefer South Campus which have both “brownstone- smaller dorm feel” and student apartments. If you know somebody at BU now, that person may be able to help you get a better room, if you decide to share a room.</p>
<p>The other person who answered covered things well, but I can add:</p>
<p>You may not be able to get a single or suite style (StuV & singles go like hotcakes, and upperclassmen get first dibs early in the year for next year), but I can tell you which traditional dorm style are better than most: Myles Standish Hall has some quasi-apartment style rooms where you do have a roommate in your bedroom, but you’re connected to a common living room/bathroom that you share with a few other bedrooms. You’ll have more privacy than, say, being in Warren Towers or West Campus and sharing a communal bathroom with 50 people.</p>
<p>Bay State Road is where there’s a ton of specialty housing. You have to actually qualify for many of them and that can create opportunities to get in there. I lived in the German House, for example; there are houses for most languages, for musicians, there’s even a “clean living” house for women. You usually have a roommate but you share bathrooms and common spaces only with your housemates (usually 15-20 people) and the rooms are pretty nice. South Campus is good, too–same idea as Bay State but further away from main campus so you feel more independent. </p>
<p>Note: singles & suite style are more expensive than other types of housing. You’ll need to budget 15K for room & board per year, especially if you want the nicest housing options. Sharing a room/being in a normal dorm is more like 12-13K. Bear it in mind. </p>
<p>Thanks guys! I currently have 80 credits now from my former university and I would be coming in during the Spring semester. I’m sure most of the dorms will already be filled since everyone was already there from fall semester but regardless I can still try for a nice apartment style or at least I know for next fall!</p>
<p>You may be lucky in that there will be people who may decide to move to an apartment 2nd semester and/or there are students who will be traveling abroad or like you may be transferring to another college. Good Luck on getting the housing setting of your choice.</p>