<p>Hi! I am new to this forum, so I don’t know if this is even in the right category. I will be going to a community college, but I will transfer to a University. I want to Dorm cause I missed out on Middle School, and High School, (because I was Homeschooled from 3rd grade) so I kinda want to experience that school feel, and I heard dorming is fun. However, I am a little upset over multiple things. </p>
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<li><p>I feel that when I do Dorm I will be too old, I probably will be 22 or 23 when I dorm.</p></li>
<li><p>If I do dorm, I am afraid I will like it so much that I will want to stay, and I can only for probably 2 years.</p></li>
<li><p>I am afraid I won’t fit in</p></li>
<li><p>I am leary on Co-ed Bathrooms, and that’s something I don’t want to deal with, LOL!</p></li>
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<p>Back to my question though. Can you dorm for more than 4 years? Does that mean when I get my Associates and transfer that I can only spend 2 years in a dorm? I want to be a Therapist or a Psychologist, and with that said, I will probably have to go to school anywhere from 5 to 10 years (Depending on if I am just getting my Masters or my Docturate) With that said can I dorm when getting my masters or doctorate? Or will they kick me out cause you’re only allowed 4 years to dorm? Please answer! Thank you! :)</p>
<p>It depends entirely upon the school. Some schools, in fact all of the ones my kids attended, have lotteries each year for campus housing and though guaranteed for freshman, not so for upperclassmen. And a lot of the dorms are apartment type arrangements, some in outer Siberia in terms of distance to the classrooms. Your lottery number determines how much choice you are going to get in the housing the college has available. </p>
<p>My kids all wanted to get out of the dorms ASAP. They already were making plans for off campus housing freshman year because that’s what all their friends and kids they knew at the school were doing. I would have much preferred that they stayed in dorms, any form of university housing for all 4 years as I hate dealing with the risks of independent housing, slum loards, co signing leases, etc, etc. </p>
<p>So it’s all up to your school. The school I know well, doesn’t even offer dorms to any transfer students, and a lot of the kids there turn down their dorm privileges for less expensive housing nearby. Some schools with surpluses of dorms will be happy to let you stay. So you can see how YMMV depending on the school. Some schools have graduate school housing as well.</p>
<p>It depends on the school. At my university, only freshmen can live in the dorms (previously before 2012, incoming transfers were also allowed to dorm, but because of limited space (and the closing of the building that transfers used to be put in), transfers are now limited to either live in the student housing apartments, or find apartments of their own. I was lucky to transfer in when dorms were still available to transfers).</p>
<p>The people above are right-it depends on the school. Although, I’ve never heard of a graduate student dorming-I’ve also never heard of co-ed bathrooms in college dorms.</p>
<p>At my school, housing is a lottery for freshman after upperclassmen pick their rooms. There’s also a dorm on my campus that houses mostly graduate students & the apartment university residences are also liked by grad students.</p>
<p>Can you dorm for more than 4 years? If you are an enrolled student in the university, theoretically you can stay in the residence halls as long as you meet their requirements. But you might not get guaranteed housing after your first or second year.</p>
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<li><p>22 or 23 is older than most of the students in the residence halls; only you can determine whether or not you are comfortable with that.</p></li>
<li><p>This should not be an issue - once you graduate, you cannot stay. So if you are making progress this problem will resolve itself. You can always live in an apartment with college friends while you work your first (or second) job.</p></li>
<li><p>Everyone is.</p></li>
<li><p>Many colleges have single-sex residence halls that you can choose to live in, if you desire. Still, I’m not sure what it is about co-ed bathrooms you don’t want to deal with.</p></li>
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<p>You won’t live in the residence halls when you are a graduate student, and you will not want to. University owned graduate housing is typically apartment-style with other grad students. You can do that, if you like, but you can’t live with the undergrads. And frankly, you won’t want to; you’ll have different priorities and needs then. If you really really love residence life, try to work as an RA, and then when you are getting your graduate degree work as a resident/hall director. I did that for 2 years and it’s a lot of fun, and you typically get your own apartment within an undergrad residence hall and work with the undergrads.</p>
<p>Why would you want to live in a dorm for all four years? One bad roommate can ruin the whole experience like it did for me. The only reason I’ll be living on campus now is because I manage to snag one of the Graduate Apartments because I’m too old for the dorms.</p>
<p>dorming is SOOO convenient. if you have the money and are willing to pay that much, go for it. look at the school’s dorming places first, you definitely want apartment styled ones and try for single bedrooms. </p>
<p>if you dont have a roommate, i think it’d be nice =) i personally loved dorming and i miss it so much! at my school they had a lot of older people (3rd 4th & 5th) years living on campus and no one really cared haha</p>