<p>So I just submitted my housing application for next year. I was just wondering how much they use your preferences. Like from your experience, did you get one of the dorms that was on your list or did you get stuck in one of the high rises? </p>
<p>I don't have any of the older high rises on my list. Morrison is first and then it's a mix of mid campus, the low rise south campus, and a few north campus dorms. I've heard that freshmen have no say really, but do you think I have any chance of getting a good dorm? Or do they just like end up putting the last half of the students in the high rises because the rest fill up fast? I know I shouldn't worry, but I'm just curious.</p>
<p>I didn’t put any of the south campus high-rises on my list at all, but was placed in HoJo. So yes, you really don’t have a choice and even if it isn’t on your list, they will place you in Craige/EHaus/HoJo if all the other dorms are filled. I wouldn’t expend any energy on worrying about it. I do know a handful of people who got Morrison/Horton/Manly, but then again, there are 900 freshmen in HJ, so the odds aren’t good. IMO- if I could do it again, I’d do an LLC in a prime dorm and then opt to stay there for sophomore year. Us rising sophomores just finished our housing and it was brutal.</p>
<p>Is South Campus that bad? I feel like the walk is a tad bit longer to class, but having a suite bathroom totally makes up for it.</p>
<p>Oh, and what’s wrong with the high rises? More people, more fun.</p>
<p>I don’t seem to hear much about the mid-campus buildings. I’m interested in a suite, and want to make friends, but still want to be close to classes, so I was thinking Carmichael or another mid-campus one. Anybody have any experience with them?</p>
<p>I know several people who called housing and asked to be moved to north campus for freshman year and were.</p>
<p>If you can get to north, do it. If not, hey, you’re where the majority of the freshmen are. Life isn’t so bad no matter what.</p>
<p>I mean, this is my fifth year of dorm living, so honestly, a dorm is a dorm is a dorm. The one thing that I HATE about HoJo is that it is very, very far away from everything. This means that I generally have to bring all of my books with me (including anything I need to do my hw), and lug it all the way to North Campus for class and then stay there all day. After doing this for a semester and a half, I’m so sick of it. </p>
<p>I also hate suite bathrooms with every fiber of my being. But that’s just me.</p>
<p>After seeing the model room in Craige when I visited, I feel like the suite bathrooms would be the worst part about college. Honestly, I think I would mind those worse than the walk to North Campus. I think my roommate and I are going to list like every north campus dorm on our applications in hopes that we’ll get a decent number. </p>
<p>Also, I don’t know quite how realistic of a situation this is, but I’m curious if anyone knows what would happen. If someone listed only their top choices (say 3 or so) and those were all full but there were still a few north campus rooms left, would they be likely to put them in a vacant north campus dorm or in a south campus dorm that wasn’t on their list?</p>
<p>I know I shouldn’t be worrying, and I’m not really, but I have nothing else related to UNC to do to keep me going until graduation. I’m also meeting with my roommate this weekend to finalize our dorm selections and I want to have all the info I can.</p>
<p>They wouldn’t put you in North Campus, I don’t think. Even if you don’t put a South Campus dorm on your list, they WILL put you there if they feel like it (/there aren’t rooms elsewhere). Honestly, I just went through housing and there were literally 0 doubles left by the time that I got to log on. That either means that they do reserve a few spaces for freshmen (highly unlikely, but possible), or that the majority of freshmen who get North Campus dorms get lucky and take the upperclassmen’s vacancies that happen over summer. I honestly wouldn’t worry about it, because there are just so few freshmen who are naturally put in a North Campus dorm anyway. Either go with an LLC or make peace with Hojo, Ehaus, or Craige.</p>
<p>I saw the model dorm as well, and I wasn’t a fan of the bathroom either, but I imagined it to be better than sharing one bathroom with an entire hall. What are the differences between the two?</p>
<p>Artemis - sophomores are actually in the worst position for getting where they want to be dorm wise. Because of that stipuation that each dorm has 15% freshmen (and there’s no such rule for sophomores) freshmen tend to have more options where it seems like for sophomores you take what you can get. If you’re on North campus, they’re not going to move you south. If you’re on south, maybe you’ll get a directional dorm or Avery or whatever. Kinda sad how that works out. :-</p>
<p>^ Thanks cloying, I wasn’t sure how it worked. Anyway, I got off South Campus, so I’m pretty happy, and I’ll call over the summer to see if any spaces opened up elsewhere. </p>
<p>^^The difference between hall and suite isn’t “I’m only sharing a bathroom with 7 people vs. a whole hall.” It’s “I can only use the bathroom when one of the seven other people isn’t using it vs. I can use it all the time.” Basically, it is so annoying to have to wait to shower, use the bathroom, use the sink, etc. because one of your suitemates is in there. Happens to me at least twice a day, usually more because everyone’s in there trying to get ready at the same time, everyone wants to shower at the same time, etc. </p>
<p>Plus, it’s totally and completely disgusting half the time, and you don’t have another option. Toilet disgusting in a hall style bathroom? Just move along to the next one. Toilet disgusting in your suite? Either suck it up and use it, wait for the maid to come the next day, or go downstairs to the public toilet and hope that one isn’t disgusting.</p>
<p>Wow, I didn’t realize that at all. Thanks for telling me, Art.</p>
<p>So this may be a stupid question, but is a low or high lottery number good? I recently submitted my housing application and I was looking back on it and I saw that there was a lottery number space. It says 0 now, but I assume they will assign numbers after the deadline. Or do they even show that? Because on the past threads nobody knows anything about where they’re living until they get their assignments (unless they’re in an LLC) and I’ve never seen lottery numbers discussed.</p>