yaboi

Which buildings are you guys putting for your housing app?? Anyone know any info on them? Anyone living off campus??

soccerchick11

my list

1. Sierra Madre
2. Sequoia
3. Muir

i went with sierra madre first because the dorm rooms are bigger than the red brick ones and they're a mix of all majors so you'll get to meet people outside your major. it's a little farther than the red brick, but exercise is good! and as for off campus, as a freshman, i don't think it's a good idea. i think you lose part of your college experience by not being able to live in the dorms. at least, all the people i know that got stuck off campus freshman year felt like they missed something.

what's your major?

wereallgonnadie

Just want to know the difference between the two are other then distance from school.
Also can students from one college apply to be in a red brick that is not their college.

vc89

Sierra madre/yosemite halls have the largest rooms; sierra madre separates gender by floor while yosemite I believe runs in a coed setting. Yosemite is the farthest from classes/food/etc but its not as bad as many say, esp if you just use a bike.

Last year, many were tripled into rooms due to lack of housing space. I'm not sure if they're going to do it like this again, but all triples were assigned rooms in the red-brick dorms, which strikes me odd because they have smaller living spaces.

the dorms ARE going to be noisy and the common areas/bathrooms ARE going to reek and dirty up. From what Ive heard from friends, off-campus housing (mstang village, etc) are no different. Apartments are another story-

soccerchick11

and yes, students can apply to red brick dorms that aren't associated with their college.. it's just that most don't.

collegemom16

Good news for students like my son who are still undecided. He just got this email.
April 14, 2008


Greetings from Cal Poly's University Housing Department,

As you probably are aware, Cal Poly is having its Admitted Students Day and Open House activities this coming weekend. Many students come to Cal Poly for this event and make their final decisions on what college they plan to attend. The entire campus is looking forward to many visitors with lots of activities and tours taking place throughout the campus. Open House information is available at Open House: General Information.

Housing will be having tours of the residence halls and apartments from 10am to 4pm, Friday and Saturday, and we hope that if you are coming to Cal Poly this weekend, you will take time to visit us. On-campus housing options for freshmen include double and designated triple rooms in residence halls and private bedrooms in 4-bedroom apartments.

If you decide to attend Cal Poly SLO and would like to live on-campus, be sure to follow-up in a timely manner with the housing application and payment processes. Housing spaces are available to freshmen on a first-come, first-served basis and based upon the campus enrollment target, there is expected to be enough on-campus housing for all freshmen this year. The "Housing Tab" and the Housing Application System become available to
students on their www.my.calpoly.edu Portal account the day after you "accept" Cal Poly's offer of admission via your Portal account).

For additional information regarding Cal Poly's on-campus housing please visit
Housing and Residential Life, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Again, we hope to see you at Open House this coming weekend!

Sincerely,
Preston Allen, Executive Director of University Housing