<p>Hi CalMom05! yes, I think you just meet by the Admin building at 1:00 and they take you through the dorms. We did that tour last spring break, but they didn’t go through Cerro Vista. I hope they do this time! We did not do they regular tour before the housing tour, so we just jumped in with a group. Are you going down on Spring break for the tours? I agree that I have heard they can change their choices until June 1st.</p>
<p>Yes. We will be there on Wed.-Fri. (April 7th-9th). I really hope my son likes the campus feel. If we do not get to tour Cerro Villa as part of the tour, I will make sure we get to at least check it out from the outside.</p>
<p>We finally mailed in the forms today! Hope to get my spot in cerro vista. Thanks for your help.</p>
<p>I was admitted on 2/19, but I was holding out for my dream school. Do you think it is too late to get into a dorm? Did you have to send in a housing deposit with the housing application? I’m going up there on Monday to check it out.</p>
<p>No and yes.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure there’s still room left. I went for an admissions and campus tour on monday. The lady in charge in housing said there were a lot of spaces left because majority of students were still deciding their choices.</p>
<p>hey werty im going up monday too and taking a tour heh. and i don’t think it’s too late… i haven’t made a decision yet either and worst possible thing seems like getting a 3 person dorm</p>
<p>Hope there are tours of Cerro Vista at Open House, so prospective students and parents can see those dorms. If there are no Cerro tours, you can go to the community area/front desk and look around. You may not be able to see inside an apartment but you can meander around the corridors of the various apartment buildings.</p>
<p>My son started Cerro in the second year and has lived in both Bishop and Morro. The apartment arrangements are about the same in both buildings, so I would assume all of the Cerro apartments are very similar. Cal Polys housing website shows accurate photos of Cerros’s apartment interior and furnishings.</p>
<p>For Cerro Vista, do they pre-assign your rooms or is it first come first serve?
Thanks.</p>
<p>Nevermind I just saw on the housing website that they do.</p>
<p>So for an engineering student, would you recommend the North Mountain halls or Santa Lucia?</p>
<p>there are no housing tours for open house…i think this week there were tours</p>
<p>I have a quick question, do the regular campus tours include a housing tour too? thanks!</p>
<p>einobb^ I thought that there were housing tours at Open House. They are not part of the regular tour, but they are offered seperately. There are tours this week as well, but I am fairly certain that they will have tours next week at Open House.</p>
<p>Blue Alien^ My friend’s son is in Mech engineering and he lives in North Mountain. he likes it and he can go to Santa Lucia for the community rooms. It is plenty social for him and he also says that he is studying a lot and he needs the quieter dorms. North Mountain has no inner hallways, so it is less social they say. his roommmate is a Computer engineer.</p>
<p>And, a friend of mine has a daughter in Industrial Engineering in Santa Lucia (double). That’s the Living Learning dorm for Engineering. She likes it. But, her mom told me she now kind of wishes she would have chosen Cerro Vista. She likes the idea of making some of her own meals. Well, next year she can choose Poly Canyon!</p>
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<p>Blue Alien^ My friend’s son is in Mech engineering and he lives in North Mountain. he likes it and he can go to Santa Lucia for the community rooms. It is plenty social for him and he also says that he is studying a lot and he needs the quieter dorms. North Mountain has no inner hallways, so it is less social they say. his roommmate is a Computer engineer.</p>
<p>I am here. The plan is 12:00 meeting for admitted students, 1:00 campus tour, 2:00 PM Housing tour and 3:00 School of Business meeting. I will report back this afternoon to everyone. I was admitted on 2/19 and have not commited yet either. I plan on walking over the housing ap in person tomorrow on my out if I like it here.</p>
<p>I did not sign up for any of the tours or meetings. If you see me, say, “Hi.” I will be in a black Billy Bong shirt with a black vest. Blonde, 5’10", and I answer to David. My mom will be in a bright green sweater with a scarf, about 5’5", 120 lbs, short blonde hair. You can’t miss that sweater. :)</p>
<p>^werty haha darn i was driving all morning so i didn’t read till now i was in the 12 meeting the 1 housing tour and the 2 campus tour >.<. i was brunette with bangs 5’ 8" girl grey sweater thing and my mom was wearing a leather jacket :). i went to Muir and with the bio guy for the campus tour, i probably saw you some time… im actually still here at a hotel down the road</p>
<p>I was setting in the second row with a turquoise and black hoodie. I went on the Tenaya/Sierra Madre tour. I thought the guy from admissions was pretty funny at the noon meeting. I got the sense that everyone is pretty cool at CP. They genuinely seemed to want us to come to CP. On the B School tour, they told us that they were able to take the really top students. 5000 applied to B School and they accepted 1500 hoping for a class of 500. So, anyone at that noon meeting should feel proud. Especially, the architecture students; WOW! I am impressed guys! One of the top 3 schools in the country. 
There were 41,000 aps this year to CP.</p>
<p>I promised a report on housing. First off, in the noon meeting the admin people said that tons of kids are still making up their mind, so I got the feeling that there are housing options open. In fact, only about 3 kids said they had already committed and the room was full. But, I would start making a decision no laterthan next week if you want you a good dorm.</p>
<p>The red bricks were depressing to me and I can’t imagine triples in those dorms. Even though Tenaya is labeled as a business living and learning community, the students who led the business school tour said that really wasn’t the case anymore. When we went past the residential computer bldg, the guide made the comment that they spend allot of time in the red brick dorms. Reading between the lines, what I got from that was they spend allot of time there troubleshooting the internet connections. That makes sense to me b/c it looked like they were the original dorms.</p>
<p>I really liked Sierra Madre. They were open and bright and the rooms were much nicer. The older Mountain dorms were also actually not bad. They have HUGE windows, but they remind me of a motel. All doors lead to the outside. No hallways. there was a mix of students there this year, not just engineering students.</p>
<p>The Sierra Vista apartments were awesome. At first, I thought they were the best, but after thinking about it, I would probably choose to live there my sophomore year. They are a bit more isolated and apartment style, so you not as much interaction with other students as a regular dorm.</p>
<p>Those were the only dorms that I saw. Did anyone see Yosemite?</p>
<p>I also went on the Business School tour and would highly recommend going on your school specific tour. That is where I received the really important information to help me decide. I am off to Boulder on Friday and I have to make my mind up by April 12 b/c/ that is when I have to let the Norlin Scholars know if I am accepting the opportunity. Boulder is really cold and no surf. 
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<p>At the moment I am leaning towards Cal Poly and I am still appealing to USC.</p>
<p>The students are all really nice and friendly. And the campus is very laid back. The students seemed like they had a healthy balance of studying hard and having fun. Most of the students are from CA.</p>
<p>The red bricks did seem depressing on the tours but I spent the afternoon with some friends that go there both have triples and they Both really like it… Their rooms are suprisingly spacy and one of them even rearranged the furnature so it’s more open. I am actually leaning towards the redbricks if I decide to go there in the fall :)</p>
<p>edit: oh and i did see yosemite. the lay out was interesting and it did seem like it would help you get to know people but i really didn’t like it that much from the tour. there were 2 wings on each floor one boy one girl and 12 people in each wing and a middle space where they could hang out. i didn’t like it because the hallways were really narrow and even though the rooms were kind of big… they didn’t seem that nice.</p>
<p>It’s nice to see a couple points of views here. My daughter’s first choice is Sierra Madre–Connections. However, she put down Muir–Living & Learning next. It’s in the red bricks. Her third choice is Yosemite. As it stands right now, she and her good friend from high school will be sharing a dorm room. I hope they don’t get a triple in the red bricks because it might make it uncomfortable for the third person being in the same room as best friends. PLUS, it would be crowded.</p>
<p>My daughter got accepted to USC and happened to look at the triples in one of their dorms. It’s a great arrangement—TWO rooms. One with 3 beds (no bunks) and closets and the other one with just desks for studying. That makes more sense.</p>