Hi guys! Though the RAPs for 2019-2020 haven’t been released yet, does anyone plan on participating or have any key info? They’re pushed really heavily by the school, but I know from having friends already in college that being too close to your roommate or floormates isn’t a good idea. On top of that, none of the ones from last year really caught my eye. Regardless, they seem like an easy pass and some are taught in the dorm, which will help fight the cold. It’s also the only way to pick exactly where you are living on campus and know before July or August. Any thoughts? I’m personally torn and would love to hear anyone else’s thought processes on it.
I lived in a RAP so that I would have a better chance of meeting people, and so I could get into some smaller classes taught right downstairs in my dorm. Being in the RAP also guaranteed that I’d get housed in the residential area I wanted, which was very important to me. The RAP did help with these things, and it doesn’t preclude you from making friends outside the RAP.
I didn’t find the classes an easy pass, though. I’m not sure why you think that. Maybe they would be for you. But one of those I took was a pretty difficult class.
Was in the Isenberg leadership RAP in Cance my freshman year. Imo, having a close floor is pretty nice, assuming you get along with the other people in the RAP as well (the dynamic was kinda cliquey in my RAP). Regardless, you can always hang out with people outside the RAP if you don’t like them very much, which a couple of people did do. Personally, I would recommend doing it just because it gives you that group of people to possibly hang out with right at the start of college, kinda softening that edge that usually is present within the freshman class for the first couple of weeks.
As a junior now, I still hang out with a decent amount of people who was in that RAP with me.
P.S: Not all RAPs have classes that are in the dorms. My class was in Isenberg, so I still had to walk to it like a normal class (but it was an easy A).