<p>If someone can point me to a map of the residence halls and where the engineering classes are usually held, that would be helpful, too. thanks</p>
<p>The housing site has maps. The engineering school is on the North Campus (residence halls Bursley and Baites). Freshman year you will only have 1 engineering course per semester. Something like 40% of freshman are housed on North Campus regardless of whether they are engineering students or not. Many students are dissapointed to be put on North (away from “the action”), but many actually like it. North campus is quite scenic - hilly, wooded, many deer. Campus busses run from North to Central aprox. every 10 minutes during the day. It is a 10 minute bus ride to Central Campus.</p>
<p>thanks. Looks like an engineering student would be better suited living on the North campus. Do you know if a student can get his or her choice of housing, or is it pot luck?</p>
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<p>^Students are drawn by lottery for the ordering of their choices. So if your student is drawn for first round, he may get his first or second choice from his application. </p>
<p>One way to attempt to “control” where you are living is to apply for one of the freshman community living program such as Alice Lloyd Hall Scholars (in-residence arts courses for those who meet criteria) or Honors etc. Those programs are building-specific.
However, given an engineering student’s schedule, something like Lloyd Hall, where you have to attend x# of meetings, etc. might not be ideal.</p>
<p>I love North Campus, so its not as bad as some people may have you believe</p>
<p>Yeah, what is wrong with hills, scenery and deer? on top of this, for an engineer student at least, it is where the engineering quad is. IS the south campus the place for the bars?</p>
<p>So as a student you do not have a choice in getting a single, double, etc until you get picked for the lottery?</p>
<p>IE: no guaranteed housing choice like in other schools, say University of Wisconsin (assuming you return the form back by the priority deadline)</p>
<p>e5, w/ the lottery system, sounds like not only do you not get a single/dbl choice, but certainly u wd not get the choice of dorm and campus location.</p>
<p>Interesting to hear that the engineering student wd only have 1 class per semester. Does anyone know if the lottery system does any weighting? EG, put some extra wt if frosh to go to the North (since this seems to be a big one that gets a lot of freshman), or if engineering student , put extra wt in the algorithm for the north?</p>
<p>It is very random. There is no extra consideration taken into what school/major you are.</p>
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<p>Is there a community living program, center, house, dorm, or building that one can try to get into outside of the lottery that is geared for engineering students - specifically compE students?</p>