<p>Just got accepted at UNC and trying to figure out where to room next year. So where does everyone want to stay as a incoming freshman and why?</p>
<p>I want to live on South Campus for the social life. My top options are Manning East and Manning West communities and Morrison. The Manning dorms all have 4 person suites, which is really nice but you have to clean your own bathroom. Morrison has 8 person suites, and it’s the most newly renovated dorm, so it’s pretty nice.</p>
<p>However, I’ve heard that most of the dorms on North Campus are all nicer than the South Campus ones (maybe with the exception of Morrison), and I wouldn’t be upset living there too, especially since it’s so close to everything. If I get into the Honors Program, I would probably try to live in Cobb.</p>
<p>Basically, I don’t want to live in the super old South Campus dorms, but most people say that the people and experiences make up for it. I’m also not going to count on living in a particular dorm because freshmen really don’t have any say.</p>
<p>I’ve spent wayyyy too much time on the housing site over the past few months…</p>
<p>Basically, as a first year, your two choices are Granville or South Campus (Ehaus, Hojo, Craige). That’s about it. Even if you request North Campus, you probably won’t get it.</p>
<p>Craige is good.I have enjoyed living here this year and have made tons of friends just by being on south campus.</p>
<p>I wanna live in Morrison. Can anyone give me some perks/cons?</p>
<p>I don’t know that much about it besides it’s huge and brand new. But a tip for getting in - one of my student tour guides told me that if you’re really set on living in a certain building, apply for the LLC in that dorm. So if you’re interested in sustainability, that works out well for you.</p>
<p>LLC? Does that stand for Living Learning Community or am I making that up completely?</p>
<p>Yeah, it does. The Sustainability LLC is in Morrison. Here’s some more info on those if you’re interested. [Residence</a> Halls by Living-Learning Community | UNC Chapel Hill Housing and Residential Education](<a href=“http://housing.unc.edu/residence-halls/living-learning]Residence”>http://housing.unc.edu/residence-halls/living-learning)</p>
<p>I have a question for students if anybody can answer. Even though the majority of freshmen live on South Campus, that still leaves at least 1,000 freshmen on north and mid campus. Are the ones who are not placed in south campus just lucky, or are most of them living in LLCs?</p>
<p>^ They’re in Granville, most likely. </p>
<p>Honestly, you can say you want to live in Morrison all you want, but the chances of getting into it are very slim. South campus is just part of the freshman experience and it’s certainly not worth stressing over. </p>
<p>LLC = Living Learning Community, basically the only way to guarantee a spot in whatever dorm you want to be in. </p>
<p>The only other way is finding some sort of a medical reason that you need to be in XX dorm.</p>
<p>^^Hahaha, my doctor said that kids ALWAYS do that with allergies so they get dorms with air-conditioning.</p>
<p>I heard Morrison is connected to some food places? And my mom keeps saying that I don’t apply for DORMS, but like…communities. Can anyone explain the process more in-depth?</p>
<p>Well, all the dorms now have AC, so you’d need to argue you need a newer, cleaner dorm or something. But yeah, allergies/asthma generally helps with assignments. </p>
<p>Morrison is not “connected” to any food places. It’s about a minute away from Ram’s Head Dining Hall (literally, it’s like 100 yards away), but not connected. There’s also the Ram’s Head Rec Center there too, which is fairly nice. (Although those facilities are about 5-6 minutes away from the other South Campus dorms depending on the traffic lights)</p>
<p>You apply for individual dorms within communities. You’d rank Hojo first, then Horton, then some other dorm, etc. etc. These dorms are all in different communities (Hojo is its own community since it’s so large, but Horton and some of the other smaller ones are grouped into another community of roughly equal size).</p>
<p>Thanks for the help! People like you are awesome (and I’m totally one of those freshman noobs).
My sister stayed in Ehringhouse South/Koury when she was a freshman…what’s the general opinion on that?
Basically, is there places that you would highly advise AGAINST or FOR?</p>
<p>I think it is just pretty random when freshmen get North Campus dorms - but it does happen. Not in huge numbers, but still. I don’t really think of Granville as being a “North Campus dorm” because it is separate from the other housing options altogether.</p>
<p>Applying to a Living Learning Community is a great way to “sneak in” to North Campus as a freshman - definitely something to consider. Koury is a lot nicer than regular Ehringhaus, but it is 4-person suite style instead.</p>
<p>If I had to do it over again, I would have tried harder to get Middle or North Campus freshman year- Hinton James was just so FAR and it made some things a lot harder to do. I hated feeling “stranded” on the weekends, etc. Even being in Morrison (still South Campus) would have been better because it is a stone’s throw from the dining hall and you automatically eliminate crossing two streets from your daily routine (compared to HoJo).</p>
<p>I am in a LLC and I am in one of the nicest dorms on campus and I also have first priority to get housing again in this community (while everyone on south campus will have to equally fight for a N campus dorm). The reason all the freshman live on S campus is because none of the people who lived want to live there again.</p>
<p>I am absolutely pro N campus I you can get it, the only garentee is through a LLC but I know some other freshman who were place on N campus randomly.</p>
<p>D was originally trying to get into the Sustainability LLC last year but couldn’t because it was full. In hindsight, for her, it was a good thing. She barely had enough time to get all the work/studying she had to do for her classes done. Adding on top of that the seminars and volunteer work required by a LLC would have been too much. So, I’m sure there are awesome experiences with LLCs but make sure you go in with eyes open knowing the time commitment required.</p>
<p>^ Depends on the LLC. Some are just substance free or don’t require the additional class component (I believe this is true for the language houses).</p>
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This is important - I’m in one and while I love everyone in it and I’m glad I signed up for it, I’m not totally sure if I would recommend them for other first years. When I signed up, I didn’t realize how much of a time commitment it would be, and they almost expect us to put it ahead of schoolwork, which I just don’t agree with.</p>
<p>As the mom of an OOS freshman, I have some strong feelings about this. My advice is live where the freshmen live, especially if you are OOS and presumably don’t know kids going in. My son listed Morrison first, because it was newer and closer in, and he must have had a very high housing lottery number because he got it. This did not end up being a good thing. He was randomly assigned to a room with another freshman, but all his suitemates were sophomores and the other suites on the wing were women with a female RA. Dorm life did not end up being at all what he imagined freshmen dorm life to be. He felt there was little of that “freshmen” energy and interest in meeting people. </p>
<p>He moved dorms second semester and I think is having more fun, even though he has a longer walk to class and the building itself is grungier. Morrison is tricky because housing allows students to re-contract and stay in the rooms they are in, so there is a higher likelihood in Morrison that freshman (if “lucky enough” to be assigned there) would land in a suite with sophomores. Sounds okay, but sophomores tend to be socially established and may not display the same “want to go to dinner” openness that I suspect you find in spades in August and September in the other more freshmen-dominated high rises. </p>
<p>Again, I pass this on mainly as a caution to OOS students. I imagine that in-state students have social networks on which to build and so Morrison could be a very sweet assignment, especially since getting in as freshmen guarantees that they can stay on as sophomores. I encourage OOS students to think about housing in terms of which dorms/which floor plans will maximize their chance of meeting other freshmen. Just my 2 cents.</p>