<p>It seems that it cost $1200 to live in the SUITE.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance for any inputs~</p>
<p>BTW, I will be a new joiner this fall.</p>
<p>Suite style living is one of two common styles of freshmen housing. Suite style means you will be in a room with one other person (from my experience), but that room will be connected to a common area which connects to several other rooms, meaning, while you share a room with only one person, you share a common area with 1 or more rooms like yours.</p>
<p>The other style has you in a room with one or two other people, and that room opens up to a hallway with many more rooms and usually a common bathroom for the whole floor.</p>
<p>It depends on which suite you are in and what you want to do.</p>
<p>Most suites contain a mix of singles and doubles, centered around a common area and possibly a private bathroom or two. Barbour and Young O suites (apartments) also have kitchens. Suite fees apply to any group of rooms containing a furnished common room.</p>
<p>Suites with the suite fee are available in:
All Wriston buildings (except for possibly Goddard––not sure what’s going on up there)
New Dorm
Barbour
Morriss
Young O</p>
<p>Then there are suites in Grad Center, Hegeman, and (a few) Minden that do not include the suite fee because Grad Center doesn’t contain common rooms, Hegeman’s common rooms aren’t furnished, and Minden’s (as well as any similar configurations on campus) are a series of walk-through doubles.</p>
<p>To make things more confusing, Grad Center contains a few apartments that do actually cost the suite fee, but they contain kitchens and common rooms.</p>
<p>There are also a handful of suites buried somewhere in buildings around campus that will cost the suite fee.</p>
<p>If you are a freshman this fall, you will not be living in a suite. If you are a transfer, you might if you indicate you want to pay the suite fee.</p>
<p>^ where did we get the option to decide what kind of a room we want? :S</p>
<p>If you are a freshman, you don’t really. Upperclassmen take part in the housing lottery.</p>
<p>To rehash, if you are a freshman, your room is assigned to you and, unless something very, very strange happened, you WILL NOT live in a suite. You only get some modicum of room choice after your freshman year.</p>
<p>Modicum? Hardly! Try the most intense, room-specific lottery in all of the world!</p>
<p>Oh ok… thanks for letting me know!</p>
<p>That’s true, but you also get almost no choice (besides your choice of a few triples, maybe, and your choice of whether to pay for a suite in summer assignment) if your lottery number is too low. That being said, I <3 the lottery (compared to most other schools’ systems, anywho).</p>
<p>Thanks for all inputs. Quite interested to know that!</p>