<p>If you guys have filled out your housing/dining online forms, which dorm did you pick for #1? Is anyone living at home?</p>
<p>I picked Carmen coed</p>
<p>i chose a Furnald single as my first choice the a Harlty-Wallach single as my second choice.</p>
<p>I really cannot fathom sharing my room with another person.....I've been down that road, and it was not a fun or easy one!!!;)</p>
<p>john jay single 1
carman coed 2
hartley-wallach LLC single 3
carman same-sex 4
hartley-wallach double 5
furnald single 6
john jay double 7
furnald double 8</p>
<p>carman all the way....its not freshman year w/o a roomate</p>
<p>john jay single 1
furnald single 2
carman coed 3
carman same sex 4</p>
<p>and then i forgot the rest...</p>
<p>there is like a 75% chance that we get our first choice right?</p>
<p>that's what I've heard. Is anyone moving in early? My parents are annoying and are planning to fly us out a day before orientation to "avoid traffic"</p>
<p>I won't post my inane list, but i'll explain my bathroom-based ranking. Single vs. double is a matter of personal taste, and all of the first year dorms are in great locations, so I ignored those criteria. I figure that the biggest factor affecting quality of life is bathroom cleanliness and traffic-- it's difficult to be happy when your most holy sanctuary is filthy or you have to stand in line while a floormate hogs the shower.</p>
<p>Carman has the absolute best bathroom arrangement, with an unheard-of 4 people to a suite bathroom, which is still cleaned for you (as is the case in all first year housing)</p>
<p>In singles, the best you can do is a Hartley-Wallach LLC suite, with 10-15 people per coed bathroom. These babies are clean!</p>
<p>Furnald comes in third, single-sex bathrooms are shared with the entire floor, but there are only about 15 people to each one assuming equal gender distribution.</p>
<p>John Jay is last in bathrooms, with about 45 people using the 2 bathrooms on each floor.</p>
<p>These are just the rantings of an obsessive germophobe, so take them with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>i am also an extreme germ-freak ..... that is why Furnald is my first choice..... I reallu hope i get it.</p>
<p>I LOVE HARTLEY! I want to request it now. It bumped Carman down the list. I like Hartley better than Wallach, though. Maybe I will beg for Hartley. Then maybe I can do some cooking, mmm. I need to get my dad to teach me this summer. Then I will make friends fast, haha.</p>
<p>My new list is Hartley single or double, followed by John Jay.</p>
<p>And I learned an interesting piece of information. The carman air-conditioning. . . haha doesn't even turn on until May 16, AFTER graduation. I thought that was so funny.</p>
<p>"HARTLEY!"</p>
<p>can you explain the Learning Center thing? I have a family aquaintance who is living there now, but he's not a freshman. Is LC just a type of living arrangement (where ppl of different diciplines and ages live in a suite together) or are there "special activities?"</p>
<p>ppl seem to say that air-conditioning is unnecessary</p>
<p>Yeah a fan is fine.</p>
<p>There are special activities. Columbia gives students in that dorm money to put on activities. Some of them are concerts that would ordinarily cost a good deal of money at reduced prices for Columbia students. So if I wanted to go to a concert that doesn't give student discounts, I could make an activity to go to that concert and use Columbia funding to help lower the costs. That's one example I got from a student who lives there.</p>
<p>Hartley is fresh and soph w/ some juniors. Sometimes the different grades bond, and sometimes they don't as much. Depends. Ideally, it'll help a lot. I heard some stories about people in different grades becoming good friends.</p>
<p>I want to go to the grocery store to get some steaks, and I want to cook them in Hartley. I wrote Housing an email to request Hartley and to change my list. I ultimately decided I don't want carman that high up on my list. It was 2nd after John Jay and before LLC, but now both carman options are at the bottom.</p>
<p>My new list:
Hartley-Wallach, mostly Hartley, 1 and 2
John Jay 3 and 4 (s and d, resp.)
Furnald s and d 5 and 6
Carman co and si 7 and 8</p>
<p>Ah, well I think I'd thrive best in a social atmosphere. I've had my own room long enough. And what's college without a roomate? And even better, a whole building of freshmen being just that, freshmen</p>
<ol>
<li>Carman co</li>
<li>JJ Single</li>
<li>JJ Double</li>
<li>Carman single sex (is there even an all-male floor? I know there's an all-girl one, but all guys? Whatever, Carman is Carman)</li>
<li>Hartley-Wallach double</li>
<li>Furnald Double</li>
<li>Hartley-Wallach Single</li>
<li>Furnald Single</li>
</ol>
<p>I'm really undecided between single and double, and between Carman and Furnald, but I thought Furnald was a little nicer than Carman, but if I was going to have a double I wanted it in Carman, so I put:</p>
<ol>
<li>Furnald single</li>
<li>Carman coed</li>
<li>Carman single</li>
<li>Furnald double
5, 6, 7, 8. Don't remember</li>
</ol>
<p>I was undecided between a single or a double, so I decided to go with the following:</p>
<ol>
<li>Furnald single</li>
<li>Furnald double</li>
<li>Carman double single sex (I think they only have all-girls floors jarahul, but im not 100% sure)</li>
<li>Carman double coed</li>
<li>JJ-s </li>
<li>JJ-d<br>
7/8 ?</li>
</ol>
<p>90% get choice in top two</p>
<p>what about waitlisters who just submitted their housing form? can we at least hope for top four or five?</p>
<p>I don't have any idea</p>
<p>bing: i called to ask this a few weeks ago, and was told that the assigments haven't been made, so we waitlisters aren't at a disadvantage.</p>
<p>supposedly.</p>
<p>I also confirmed that those off the waitlist are at no disadvantage for housing.</p>
<p>On that topic, though, have any other "waitlisters" received ANYTHING from Columbia? I've gotten absolutely nothing. I had to call to confirm that they even received my deposit.</p>