<p>Hi~ I got excepted for ED as a freshman, and I don't know which dorm to pick?<br>
Please help!!
Thank you =)</p>
<p>It depends on if you mind walking far or what you’d like to be close to. I’ve heard that the nicest dorms are usually the farthest from everything. Personally, I’d rather have a nicer dorm because I don’t mind walking.</p>
<p>I think I want something closer since it’s first year, but I don’t know which one to pick!</p>
<p>I’ve been in Hayden, Weinstein, Rubin, and Founders.
If I were a first year student I would pick Founders. It’s not as close as the other freshman dorms but only by a few blocks. It’s right next to Palladium which has a nice dining hall and the gym, plus it’s closer to Union Square and St. Marks which has a ton of restaurants, stores, etc. It’s rooms are bigger and and cleaner since it’s a new residence hall and the view is ridiculous at least from the 14th floor.</p>
<p>Can any current students describe which dorms foster more of a sense of community, leading to more opportunities to meet people and make friends for a kid who is a bit shy – and especially considering the relative lack of “campus” at NYU? He’s been admitted to Gallatin.</p>
<p>momwonders, I’d recommend that your son look into applying to either the Goddard dorm (the residential college) or one of the Explorations floors that they have in each dorm, since those seem to be the most focused on building community. I’m a shy Gallatin student as well, and after ending up on a floor that’s not very social, I really regret not applying.</p>
<p>dancerad64, thanks. that’s very helpful. not to take this thread in another direction, but if you have time to PM, I’d love to know your impressions of Gallatin, and whether that small school setting helps at all conquer NYU’s size. And any other thoughts on the program. THanks.</p>
<p>Here’s my input as a current student.</p>
<p>The “nicest” dorms as far as being new and luxurious are farther away from campus, such as Founders, Uhall, and 3rd North. But in NYC, location is everything. The best dorms are close to campus.</p>
<p>Those would be Weinstein, Goddard, Rubin, and Hayden. (Forget Brittany, it’s gross and sucks. Even though the rooms are big.) These dorms are older, but they also have character and a comfortable feel. Well, except for Weinstein, the cinder-block walls are horrible and the setup is bad. </p>
<p>Hayden is definitely the best. You will meet amazing people who are going places and also be close to classes. You will definitely be glad you picked a dorm close to campus with a 5 minute walk as opposed to a 10 or 20 minute walk when you have to get up for you 8am–ESPECIALLY when you decide you really need the sleep and wake up at 8 for your 8am.</p>
<p>I personally am picking 3N because of the fact that I want a good kitchen because I love to cook! The size of 3N rooms isn’t too bad, and I mean its one of the largest undergraduate dorms in North America! So I guess that has its pros and cons in and of itself. 3N also has a nice courtyard wtih some verdant foliage, so I guess it won’t seem so much an eyesore as some of the buildings of NYU lol</p>
<p>The kitchens at 3N are pretty ghetto actually. It distinguishes itself by virtue of the fact that it HAS ONE. If you want a nice kitchen, hope and pray that you get overbooked into Gramercy or something. Carlyle’s nice too if everything wasn’t broken (i.e. fridge and stove are older than me)…:rolleyes:</p>
<p>reiterating this, but if you want a sense of community in the building/floor go for residential college @ goddard or explorations. I’m in res college (VP of the residential college board which oversees it) and i love it. to the OP: there <em>were</em> many shy kids in this building and we’re such a tight knit community now it’s ridiculous. I pretty much know every single person in this building and hang out with much of them most of the time. </p>
<p>and 3N is terrible from when I’ve been there. Although I don’t think I saw the renovated tower(s). </p>
<p>Founders is good but if you need to get something from your room really quickly before class and you’re already on campus it’s not gonna be fun (its happened to me a few times already, thank god i live in goddard). </p>
<p>Hayden isn’t as great as people make it to seem. Some of my friends live there and when i’ve gone there it seems very dingy and dark, and didn’t see a sense of community. I can’t attest to the parties there though so I’m not sure how those are. </p>
<p>@futurenyustudent no freshman will ever get overbooked into gramercy. the only dorm that has extra freshmen was UHall and that actually used to be a freshman dorm until this year.</p>
<p>200 people in my freshman class were overbooked into Carlyle (Gram opened in 2008). It happens.</p>
<p>If more freshmen sign up for on-campus housing than there are freshman spots, they’ll get overbooked somewhere, probably anywhere there’s space. RD freshman who get overbooked end up fighting for scraps-ED kids pick in march, so are pretty much guaranteed their first or second choice, returning students pick in April and the RD response date is May 1st and picking housing comes after that, so they get screwed if they don’t end up in freshman housing. 26th is becoming medical student housing so there’s an even greater chance a freshman might get stuck in Chinatown.</p>
<p>ah wow. I did not know that about carlyle.</p>
<p>there’s some numbers being thrown around that as of now the number of students going in to housing in the fall is more than the number of beds available. it’ll be interesting to see what goes on with that.</p>
<p>26th and UCourt both went to the med school so they lost 2 dorms, not just one. It would suck if a freshman ended up in Laf…bad first impression.</p>
<p>Lafayette really isn’t that bad other than being so far from campus. Regardless I doubt a freshman would ever get overbooked into Gramercy. They would get probably get placed into whichever hall was closest to campus since it’s their first year, and because the sophomores are always going to fill it.</p>
<p>This thread has had some great information and good insight into some of the dorms and life at NYU. My question for you fine people is this; my daughter has been accepted into the Tische Film Production program. Is there a dorm that kind of specializes in film people?</p>
<p>@SanDiegoParent</p>
<p>I would definitely say Hayden for a Tisch student. There are a LOT of Tisch kids here…plus, she’ll probably have the chance to get to know celebrities’ kids and burgeoning young actors who already have some big movies on their imdb pages–all those people live in Hayden. Most of my Tisch friends here are in Film.</p>
<p>@SanDiegoParent </p>
<p>you may also want to consider an explorations floor in film or the all the world’s a stage stream at the residential college.</p>
<p>sansri88,</p>
<p>Can you share some more about Goddard living. I saw some pics and it seemed the students were congregating a lot in the hallways (also read this) which seem somewhat limited in size. Some describe the rooms as small, others say they are OK. the pic I saw seemed to show smaller than usual dorm rooms.</p>
<p>I don’t why NYU cannot designate some bigger area as lounge area (s) for the students in the traditional dorms so there are places to get together, instead of relying on bedrooms for groups of 3 or 4 at most. :(</p>
<p>However, Goddard’s location and strong community are positives. Anything else you have to add as the VP of the Board there? (I hope I got the right person?)</p>
<p>@kiwi91
@sansri88</p>
<p>Thanks for the great information. I’ll pass it along to my daughter. She is SO excited!!!
(I just hope financial aid comes through!)</p>
<p>@evolving</p>
<p>Yep that’s me! Haha. </p>
<p>The thing is, our floors are so tight that we can’t quite fit everyone into a room to hang out, so the hallway ends up being the best place to be (at the beginning it’ll be at least 20 of you hangin out together, if not more). I’ve noticed as the semester went along people found who they really are close to and like to hang out and then you see people going into rooms with less people. But until then, the hallway suits us well.</p>
<p>The room sizes, believe it or not, end up being above average in many cases. I know my triple (2 rooms, one single and one double) is actually larger than many other triples that I’ve seen in other buildings (except for Founders, which is just huge). The room sizes are more than enough. You should visit the dorm and see for yourself though; the showroom though I don’t believe gives Goddard enough justice.</p>
<p>We do have a lounge that was renovated this past summer, thanks to the 2008 freshmen legacy at Goddard. It’s awesome, to be honest. We have a decent flat panel (although the FCM guys always tell us they should give us a bigger one) and couches and chairs in the room. We also have the Goddard Library, where we each donate a book to it and any res college student can borrow a book.</p>
<p>The streams are great; I’m in power of politics and we get free tickets to debates, we go to rallies, and have great discussions thursday nights. Because of my involvement in PoP I decided to get involved in College Republicans as well (which I love as well). </p>
<p>The community is so tight. I know pretty much everyone in the building and I’ll have lunch or dinner with some of them every day. People do tend to have better friends as the semester goes along (I do) so we tend to hang out with them more often, but I’m still great friends with most. The doors are always open to most rooms when people are around and you can always pop in and out. </p>
<p>There’s a lot more, but I’ll leave it at this and then answer specific questions you might have.</p>