<p>I know I will likely not get my first choice for housing, but I still would like to know more about these dorms/residential colleges and your opinions are helpful.</p>
<p>Real talk is appreciated too.</p>
<p>Willard and Allison are more alike, and Elder and Bobb are more alike mainly cause of North and South stuff.</p>
<p>Willard is the RC with the most applicants and there’s a lot of pride behind it. I live there now. It seems great if you love getting involved with the dorm (tons of events), but the large majority of people get tired of it as the year goes on. It gets loud/wild, but Willard is generally very weird. You do get on a semi-cool level with everyone though. Great rooms though. Don’t focus too much on Willard Dining Hall; it blows. Overall, I see it as a great launchpad for freshmen and I will be returning next year…for the room size.</p>
<p>Allison post-renovation is amazing; Hotel Allison. Dining hall is great. Significantly less dorm bonding than Willard. But it’s still a large building, so you have the opportunity to meet a lot of people.</p>
<p>Elder and Bobb-McCulloch are both way more party-oriented than Willard and Allison. They’re right at the fraternity quads so it’s easy access to the houses after Freshman Freeze. I hear it gets messy in both of the buildings, but Elder is a very nice dorm. Elder is currently winning the “send the most people to the hospital” race.</p>
<p>A big thing to consider is the exposure to different types of people. Willard has arguably the most diversity in terms of majors, sexual orientation, penetration across different student organizations, and Greek life (this year wasn’t too great though). Allison might just have the same. I don’t know, but North and South are very different in that sense.</p>
<p>I think Allison/Elder are fair equivalents if your decision boils down to North vs South. I’d call them standard college dorms at NU - your agnostic standard from which you evaluate everything else. Bobb… well… [it</a> could be for you](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>10 Biggest Party Dorms: Dormy Awards List | HuffPost College). I have friends who enjoy it a lot there. Bathrooms get disgusting if you’re anywhere near a normal weekend. Willard is a cult of sorts but it’s a pleasant cult.</p>
<p>This was very helpful! Thank you for the responses.</p>
<p>Bobb sounds too dirty to handle, but I do like the sound of Elder and Willard.</p>
<p>A couple more questions:
Is the North/South divide really that big of a deal? It seems overly exaggerated.</p>
<p>I’ll be majoring in economics, how should that affect whether I live in the North or the South side of campus?</p>
<p>What is the difference between living in the Elder Residential Community and simply living in Elder?</p>
<p>The North/South divide is easily bridged by your own effort. You are completely in control of the situation. However, it has become easier, as time passes, to guess where someone lives based on the crowd they’re with.</p>
<p>Econ classes are everywhere.</p>
<p>They’re the same.</p>
<p>That’s good to know, and hmm interesting statement but it makes sense that similar people would choose to live with those similar to them. What would you say are the general stereotypes? </p>
<p>Thank you, I had a feeling. </p>
<p>and my other questions still stand. ;)</p>
<p>I live south as an econ major. Doesn’t really matter because you’ll be all over the place. Kellogg is right in the middle of campus anyways. So is Lunt. Tech is up north. Maybe your freshman curriculum is slightly weighted north if you’re just an econ major.</p>
<p>I live south because as an econ + MMSS double major, I’m probably weighted South because MMSS is based in Kresge (south).</p>
<p>No clue about Elder Residential Community vs Elder. In fact, I don’t know if that’s actually a difference?</p>
<p>Yeah everyone says North South divide but I really think if anything that’s just more frat/not frat divide. I haven’t really had a problem with it because I go up north for frat stuff and spend time down south for other stuff. I wouldn’t have even thought about it if other people hadn’t brought it up over and over again.</p>