<p>If you dont want to live on MVC, don’t put it on the application. plain and simple. Only list dorms on foggy. Idk how they assign except for like EDI, EDII, RD. </p>
<p>Potomac is amazing, I live there. I go to thurston like everyday because my friends live there and its really not that loud on weekdays (after the first month of school). The first month will be loud everywhere because everyone is excited.</p>
<p>Do many people get into Potomac if they applied RD?</p>
<p>Hey, earlier in this thread someone said Thurston was separated into upper and lower sections. Which section has more large rooms (quads, fives and sixes)? If I go to GW I want to live in one of these rooms for financial reasons so I want to make sure that’s where I’m placed.</p>
<p>The Foggy Bottom to Mount Vernon Campus takes at least 10 minutes each way. Often 15. During rush hour, snow delays, etc, longer. It’s a pain to not be able to just roll out of bed and walk a block away to class like on Foggy Bottom. Same with commuting to student orgs or nightlife. Shuttle back and forth, back and forth. Forget something in the dorm? Get back on the shuttle (at least 20 minutes between going there and going back). Have a morning class, but no other classes until early afternoon on Foggy Bottom? You get to commute multiple times a day back to Mount Vernon Campus if you want a break in your dorm between classes.</p>
<p>But, Mount Vernon Campus is definitely quieter and more of a traditional campus. If you’re lucky, you can even try to find many of your classes at MVC so you don’t have to make the commute all the time. If you could actually find most/all of your classes at MVC, it would be an ideal setting. It’s commuting to Foggy Bottom that makes MVC a pain, not MVC itself. </p>
<p>And, you do tend to know more of your neighbors and other Mount Vernonites if you live on MVC than if you live at Foggy Bottom. MVC is small enough that you see more of the same people more of the time and get to know each other a little more. </p>
<p>Depends on the type of freshman year you’re looking for, if you mind commuting, and if you can find most of your classes on MVC.</p>
<p>mmmgirl - </p>
<p>Can’t believe you’re considering that much debt at GWU. </p>
<p>Usually if you request a quad, you get a quad. Most people don’t want quads. Or debt. 
If you request a 6 person room, you’ll likely get it. They usually don’t get people actually wanting to live that many to a room, so it should be easy to get.</p>
<p>Re “Usually if you request a quad, you get a quad.” – On the housing form last year, there was no place to ask for a quad or 6-person room in Thurston freshman year. I heard there are many more quads in Thurston than doubles, but if you need to rank choices by cost, you’ll end up having to put in some dorms on MV. </p>
<p>It’s really not worth adding to your student loan debt just to live at FB freshman year. Unfortunately, the difference in dorm prices adds to the class division at GW. (I mean financial class, not what year you are.) --Those who can pay almost $14,000 for a dorm vs. those who can barely pay $7,000, even with financial aid. Personally, I wish the university would realize this and charge a sliding scale for rooms based on income, to make things less unfair. They’d probably end up taking in the same amount of money as they do now, but not all the rich kids (or kids in hock up to their ears) would end up in the most expensive dorms.</p>
<p>I paid my deposit yesterday and am able to use my netID everywhere but to get into the housing app. Did anyone else have this same problem or is housing for RD just not open yet?</p>
<p>Okay so yesterday I went off of some suggestions to check out Lafayette. It was a transfer dorm for last year but for our class it’ll be a freshman dorm again. It was recently renovated and let me tell you, IT. IS. BEAUTIFUL.
Like West Hall from the Vern but on Foggy.
Two doubles (which are both spacious like madison) share a mini living room - I guess you could call it that, it’s more of a walking space - and a beautiful new, clean, spacious bathroom.</p>
<p>Potomac was nice and all but it was just so narrow. Barely any space. I couldn’t see myself living there when there’s a beautifully renovated spacious dorm on foggy.</p>
<p>Sooo choose lafayette. It’s a hidden gem, so ED students probably won’t fill it up because they don’t know about it.</p>
<p>@spooster I’m RD too and the housing application opens up April 22nd :)</p>