<p>i’ll be at barnard next fall as a junior transfer. i’ve spent two years in college as well as a gap year off, and i’m an old woman these days. i am crochety and i have my habits. when i was a 17 year old freshman it was fine to room with a heroin addict and eat dining hall hamburgers. but now i really think i need a single and i need to be able to prepare my own food. </p>
<p>from what i gather barnard is pretty good about having kitchens in the dormitories, and i won’t have to be on a meal plan. but how likely is it to get a single? i also gather that the ‘transfer’ dorm, elliot, is pretty ugly. any chance of getting the nicer apt. style dorms?</p>
<p>Probably not with a single. My daughter is a rising sophomore and has no housing -- she is on a waitlist for a single in a dorm with no meal plan, and expects to be placed into Elliot. There simply aren't any singles left in any of the other dorms.</p>
<p>I would second calmom's response. Barnard really likes the idea of creating community on campus and one of the ways they do that with transfers is to place them all in the same dorm. The nice thing about Elliott is that you are most likely to get a single because the building has mostly singles. It will be small (unless you get one on the end of the hall), but it will be your own space. There are 4 doubles on each floor in Elliott (two on each side of the floor), and the rest are singles. </p>
<p>Also, transfers in the dorms are more likely to be around your age (I'm gathering you're about 20 or 21?). Most are probably a year younger than you, but it's not so much of a difference that you won't be able to relate to anyone around you.</p>
<p>Also, as calmom stated, getting singles in apratment style housing is hard enough for the returning students, so there would probably have to be some crazy coincidence for and incoming student to have a chance at them.</p>