<p>Any recommendations for dorms, etc.?</p>
<p>They gave us a huge list to choose from, not exactly sure where to start.</p>
<p>Also, any info on the LLCs, most social dorms, or anything like that would be welcome!</p>
<p>It’s searchable as heck on these boards, but I’m feeling generious so here goes:</p>
<p>Carman:
Freshmen party dorm. There’s two double rooms (you and a roommate) that share a bathroom (so you’re sharing the bathroom with 3 other people, just about always of the same sex as you, from what I’ve seen over the past 3 years). The two main reasons to live in Carman are either you wanna give yourself somewhat of a headstart on being really social and making lots of friends (the kids on your floor become kinda like your family, you’ll chill with them way after freshmen year) or because you wanna live in the dorm where just about all of the freshmen parties are. So yeah, Carman’s definitely the most social.</p>
<p>John Jay:
Singles (except for maybe a couple doubles but pretty much all singles), not really anti-social, but I certainly wouldn’t call it a very social dorm. Personally I think John Jay’s less social than Furnald, although others will disagree it all depends on each individual’s different floor and experience. John Jay’s kind of…well, old-ish. My freshmen year I remember seeing pix on Facebook of some poor kid getting stuck in a John Jay bathroom (one bathroom/one female for about 30 to 40 people on the floor) and having to squeeze out through the door vent after part of the door broke closed. Also the rooms often get too much heat in the winters and people have to leave their windows open so they don’t melt. I’m not really a huge fan of John Jay.</p>
<p>Furnald:
Mostly singles, I think with about 3 doubles per floor and also some sophomores live in Furnald (although that may change this year, some new policy I’m not effected by so I really don’t care about), easily the most aesthetically-pleasing of the freshmen dorms, some people call it anti-social but it really isn’t, most of my closest friends I know from freshmen year in Furnald, bathrooms are the same style as John Jay (except much nicer), and I believe there are fewer people sharing a bathroom in Furnald than in John Jay. Oh and the bathrooms each have 3 stalls, 3 sinks, and 3 showers.</p>
<p>And the LLC dorms Hartley and Wallach:
I don’t really know much about them, they’re suite-style, and weird people live there (not really, there actually are some really nice kids living there, but they aren’t really the typical freshmen dorm experience I guess, so they’re perceived as weird slash we tease our friends from there and say they’re weird for living there).</p>
<p>In the future try to search for stuff before you post, your posts will be…better-received that way as people on here tend to get a bit testy at times.</p>
<p>Um, metsfan. I do not believe the transfer students get to choose freshman dorms. I could be wrong though.</p>
<p>Haha, oops, didn’t see the word transfer. Yeah, transfer students kinda just get stuck where there’s space. I think the only freshmen dorm where transfer students end up is furnald (since it’s freshmen and sophomores), I hate to say it but it’s possible you could find out where they’re putting you a week before move-in (happened to some girl I know), and I’m not 100% sure even that all transfers get housing. Oh, and thanks for the heads up Epaminondas</p>
<p>From my personal experience Transfer housing can be summed up in one great PRO, and one big CON.</p>
<p>PRO:
We’re very lucky in comparaison to normal sophomores. They keep some housings options all over, great ones, off the lottery and only for us. Good singles, and doubles in East Campus, a prized dorm, with their own bathroom. The entire sixth floor of EC, the doubles in questions, is reserved for transfers. Or has been in the past two years.</p>
<p>CON:
Bluntly…Your choice means absolutely jack. Maybe this was just my experience, but how they distribute you has very little to do with your preferences. An example: I put my first choice as a single with its own bathroom (a reach yeah but that was my first choice). And in the added note section I asked for a single if at all possible. Another transfer I know begged for a double because he absolutely wanted the bonding experience his first year there. He got a single with its own bathroom; I got a double.</p>
<p>I know plenty of other cases of people who didn’t get their choice, which were given to other transfers who had requested something else.</p>
<p>So…yeah. :)</p>
<p>metsfan, these things can happen to anyone. Lest your troubles aren’t wasted, prospective freshmen should all take a look!</p>
<p>what school are you entering, and what class year are you (soph or jr). your seniority will affect what you can reasonably ask for.</p>