<p>I am curious to see where most incoming freshmen on this board have been placed for housing (for those that didn't get into the Honors or Capstone residence halls). Is getting into a suite style or apartment style hall a realistic possibility as a freshmen if not selected for either the honors or capstone program?</p>
<p>If you are in Honors or Capstone, then 99% of the time you won’t be in Apartment style housing as a freshman.</p>
<p>If you request apartment style housing (Bates West, West Quad, East Quad, South Quad), then you have a good shot of getting it. The Horseshoe is more difficult.</p>
<p>But as a freshman, you really don’t want apartment style housing. I lived suite-style as a freshman and apartment style as a sophomore and the experience is completely different. All of my closest friends freshmen year lived on my hall. In apartment style housing, you don’t know your neighbors at all. It just isn’t the same open atmosphere. My other friends who did both agreed.</p>
<p>Suite-style/traditional is better for freshman year because it makes it easier to meet people. It is also significantly cheaper and imo the cost of living in on-campus apartments isn’t worth what they charge.</p>
<p>Thanks! My daughter will be applying for admission this fall and she would definitely prefer suite-style living; I just wasn’t sure whether freshmen were actually able to get that type of housing if they weren’t admitted to Capstone or Honors.</p>
<p>If they finish the renovations on women’s quad then there’s a good chance of fewer freshmen will be in apartments. They were originally intended as upperclassmen housing, but with the increase in freshman classes and having to take women’s quad off-line for a year, a large number of freshmen are in apartments. The renovated dorms will now be suite style (originally traditional hall baths) so there will be more options for suites for freshmen girls.</p>
<p>Everything AU girl has said is true. I’m living in East Quad for the summer, and right now there is 0 community. I never see my neighbors at all. In capstone we would all keep our doors open and everyone’s best friends were from their own floor. </p>
<p>Also on campus apartments are expensive. They were 7,000 last year. If you’re willing to pay 700/month for housing, go somewhere nice like the Woodlands or Granby.</p>