UNC Honors Housing

<p>Hey everyone,</p>

<p>I just wanted to give some information about anyone considering choosing an honors potluck roommate. After some emails back and forth with the housing department, I've found out that every rising freshman requesting an honors roommate will be housed in Cobb.</p>

<p>I'm honestly pretty thrilled, I've visited Cobb and it's really nice. Newly renovated, close to Franklin and classes, looks like a cruise ship, etc. I also figure that there'll be a good amount of freshmen there. I'd say a conservative estimate of the 200 rising honors freshmen would be that 50% of them would request the honors roommate - so there'll be at least 100 freshman around in Cobb.</p>

<p>I hope this is informative! Discuss! :]</p>

<p>I dont know much about the different dorms at unc. what three dorms would u suggest (for both north and south), and do they really take my dorm request seriously. From what you say, it seems that they automatically put everyone in Cobb (personally, i wouldnt mind staying there).
thanks</p>

<p>If you request a potluck honors roommate, they will automatically put you in Cobb.</p>

<p>hi, I just bumped up the other honors housing thread that I had started a while back, I hope it helps. It helped us in our d's housing decision. I also made a few phone calls to honors pragram after my post and also my daughter went up and spent the night with an honors student. You will get into Cobb only if you request another honors roomate and you fill out the honors roomate form that came with your honors packet. There are limited rooms available; I'm thinking the lady told me about 50 rooms. After that they'll place you wherever they can. I was told by honors program and my daughter was also told by several honors students that choosing to live or not to live in Cobb would not make any difference for you (pro or con)in the honors program. If you take the Cobb offer you will need to participate in the dorm's Connected Learning program. In the end , my d decided that she was not going to back out of her promise to room with a friend from home who did not get into honors. Honors told us that there was not room available to put an honors student with a non-honors roomate in the Cobb honors housing, and she is fine with that. After visiting campus and driving and walking around campus both during the day and night we both came to agree with the posts in the other thread who thought that Cobb was somewhat isolated. Even during the day when the rest of campus was full of people, we only saw a few people walking anywhere near there. At night it was dimly lit and again very few people. There were lots of people walking around outside all of the other dorms at those hours.<br>
I'm hoping like Idmom said in my thread that they will put my d around some other honors kids in the dorms. D and her friend put down the usual freshman dorms, E-haus, Morrison, Craig. The honors students that she talked with thought that was a good choice. I sure hope so.</p>

<p>I'm rushing to post this right now because 75% of my math grade is due tomorrow, but it is not true that if you're in Honors and you request the honors potluck that you'll be in the connected learning program, according to a recent email I had with a housing official.</p>

<p>Hey, I was reading the honors packet yesterday and realized that it said they must receive the honors postcard, on which you state your intent to do honors, and the honors roommate form on Tuesday May 1. Not postmarked like I assumed, but received. Since then, I've sent some emails to several members of their office but I have not received a reply yet. </p>

<p>So, my two questions are: 1) Can somebody who contacted them recently tell me how to contact them myself?
2) Since I live in Chapel Hill, its not that inconvenient for me to go there and give them my card in person; that way, I can be completely sure that it'll get there in time and not have to worry about the post office. Does anybody know if thats ok, and if it is, can somebody tell me where I can deliver it?</p>

<p>Thanks in advance and please reply if you know.</p>

<p>cloying,
I did receive a lot of conflicting info. when I was trying to get more info. on the Honors housing, I made 4 or 5 phone calls and it seemed like I got at least 2-3 different answers. I finally asked to speak with a dept. head or director, etc. and the last person I spoke to on the matter of honors students in Cobb was a director in the Honors program, (sorry I don't have her name, I threw away that slip of paper) she seemed to know the answers not just "think this is so" like some of the other people I spoke with. One of the questions that I asked her was, "are the honors students housed in Cobb part of the Connected Learning program?" I was told "yes".</p>

<p>I definitely agree with all that conflicting info business. I did email one person specifically several times trying to make it very clear for myself that if they see my honors postcard they will put me just as a regular honors freshman in cobb. What I'll do is copy paste the entire email message when I get a bit more time (probably later tomorrow afternoon) so we can all interpret! Hah, I wonder why this is all confusing.</p>