<p>Are the dorms only co-ed by floor or are they co-ed by room? And hypothetically, if I wanted to live with a boyfriend (not asking for advice on whether or not this is a good idea), would I be able to? The only other option I would consider would be trying to find an apartment, but if I don't have to that would be much easier.</p>
<p>Only a handful of schools allow 2 people of opposite sex to share rooms, and Michigan ain’t one of them.</p>
<p>My dorms are “co-ed” and they are co-ed by wing. Not even floor.</p>
<p>There are co-ed by floor and co-ed by wing, there are no co-ed by room. You would not be able to live with a boyfriend in university housing. You will have to get an apartment, and GOOD LUCK with that. </p>
<p>Beware, housing priority is determined by how many completed terms you have lived in university housing. So if you live with BF for a year or two and then break up or move out and want to move into the dorms, you’ll have freshman priority regardless of your class status and will get completely screwed over. If you think you will EVER want the dorm experience the time to do it is sooner rather than later, later it becomes more difficult.</p>
<p>Actually, there are “co-ed by room” so you could live next door to BF (though there’s no way to control that as freshmen, you don’t get to pick your rooms) but actual rooms aren’t co-ed. Sorry, I knew what I was saying but I worded it wrong.</p>
<p>Ema- can freshmen live off-campus? For some reason, I thought U of M had the same rule about freshmen housing as MSU- freshmen must live on campus unless they lived within X miles of the school. I could be very wrong though.</p>
<p>Romanigypsyeyes, no, freshmen are not required to live on campus. However, about 98% of incoming freshmen still do. The default is to be housed in university housing your freshman year unless you opt out of it, rather than having to opt into university housing.</p>
<p>As far as I am aware, Vladenshlutte is correct, however I wonder what kind of off campus-housing freshmen would be able to secure. I live in the dorms so I am not positive, but I was under the impression that people lock down their off-campus housing many months and up to a year in advance-- by the time you know for sure you are coming to Michigan I don’t know what would be left for the following fall, and unless she is able to afford something reasonable with just the boyfriend I don’t know how she’d find roommates. I looked into off campus housing for this year but in order to be able to afford something within convenient walking distance of campus I’d have had to take on several roommates and it was more trouble than it was worth to me.</p>
<p>If you are willing to live a little further off campus and take city buses or drive, there are plenty of options for living.</p>
<p>^That’s what I was thinking. For health reasons I was not comfortable with that, I wanted to know I could easily walk home or to UHS from class even if I was unwell-- and frankly I was sick of worrying about driving in the snow after two years of commuting. However, for people who are willing/able to do that, it is good to know there are options. I take the AATA buses pretty frequently with my fiance and it seems convenient enough when you don’t have any extenuating circumstances to consider like I do. But OP should realize that those bus/car trips aren’t necessarily just once in the morning and once in the evening, it’s whenever you have a club meeting, a group project meeting, plans with friends, whatever-- and the AATA buses don’t run after like 5pm on Saturdays and Sundays. So that is something to be aware of when considering your options. I think it can reasonably be done if you really want to but you have to weigh in your own priorities.</p>
<p>At Oberlin College members of the opposite sex can be roommates.</p>