<p>Hi
My son is 2015. He decided not to come back home in California for thanksgiving. Will the dorms open? Also for winter break, the finals finishes 12/7, will the dorm open till the end of the week, or they have to leave the next day?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>The dorms stay open for Thanksgiving. They close at noon on December 8th.
Link to housing dates:[Important</a> Deadlines & Dates](<a href=“Home | Office of Residential Life”>Home | Office of Residential Life)</p>
<p>you can also stay over in Hanover (in the dorms) between terms if you apply for interim housing (see here for info: [Interim</a> Housing](<a href=“Home | Office of Residential Life”>Home | Office of Residential Life)) </p>
<p>You have to have some sort of rationale, but usually distance from home is sufficient. It would probably be beneficial to your kid to get some sort of college employment as well.</p>
<p>Dorms are open without any special permission over thanksgiving break…dining options are limited though. </p>
<p>Winter break dorms officially close December 8. The last day of exams will actually probably be the 6, with papers still potentially due on the 7. Also, he can apply for interim if you need more flexibility for travel. You can apply for two days after the deadline, if you only need a little more time. I usually apply for the entire interim period though, (if you live more than 500 miles away from campus, distance to travel home is a valid excuse), just because it gives me more flexibility to figure out my travel plans after the interim application deadline. Have him look up final exam schedules on the registrar’s office; once he’s selected his classes, he’ll be able to figure out when his last final is.</p>
<p>Thank you all so much for the reply! This is very helpful. It’s our first year at Dartmouth. We need figure out a lot of stuff. </p>
<p>Have a great day.</p>
<p>If he apply for winter Interim housing, how much we have to pay? I assume there is no charge for thanksgiving stay.</p>
<p>link for interim housing</p>
<p>[Interim</a> Housing](<a href=“Home | Office of Residential Life”>Home | Office of Residential Life)</p>
<p>Interim housing is free</p>
<p>Great information! Thank you so much for the wonderful Dartmouth parent group!!</p>
<p>S got interim housing at the end of spring term to stay for senior week and graduation. It was free but he had to move to designated interim housing which was Choates. I don’t know if that is also the case over winter break so make sure to check.</p>
<p>^^No, that’s only true on the transition from spring to summer, because they either close dorms or use them to house people for commencement and reunions over spring-summer interim. Thanksgiving, fall to winter, and winter to spring interim housing is in your room.</p>
<p>Hi all,
I have another question about Thanksgiving stay. My son wants to stay there instead of coming back to CA. Will school arrange some kind of Thanksgiving dinner for those students, or there are local host families willing to provide Thanksgiving dinner for them?</p>
<p>As a first year parent, I really appreciate all the help you provided me here. It’s an awesome community.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>As far as I know, the College doesn’t officially do anything. Dining halls are closed, as are a lot of restaurants in town. However, oftentimes dorms will get together and cook as a group. This is often overseen by the Graduate Advisor in 1st year clusters, since they’ll be in Hanover anyway, but you’ll also see groups of students who aren’t going home get together and cook up a delicious meal. This is especially true of upperclassmen, but it happens for first years as well.</p>
<p>Hi rightnotleft,
Thank you very much for the information. I will ask my son to check ti out. When I was a grad student in another university, there were a lot of local families signing up at university’s international student center to take students to their homes for Thanksgiving dinner. It will be very fun if students cook together. That sounds great!</p>
<p>Thanks again for the information.</p>
<p>viewfrom, when I studied at Dartmouth sometimes a professor would invite us to dinner for Thanksgiving. (Some profs will only do this if they have a personal connection with you, i.e. have known you for some time, but one prof issued an open invite to anyone taking his class who would be staying over the break.) The international community also always has a Thanksgiving dinner, so if your son is interested, he should email Steve Silver, who I believe coordinates international student programming.</p>