Dorms

[oaktown02]

<p>Can you request a dorm? If so, how? And which would you recommend?</p>

[whenhen]

<p>At least at Oxford you couldn’t. I don’t believe it’s possible at the Atlanta campus either [Undergraduate</a> Housing :: Info for Incoming First-Year Students](<a href=“Residence Life and Housing Operations | Emory University | Atlanta GA”>Residence Life and Housing Operations | Emory University | Atlanta GA)</p>

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Choosing Your Residence Hall
As a first-year student, you do not have the option to choose a specific building as we make assignments with the goal to create a well-rounded and diverse community of students. You do however, have the option to let us know your preference for the type of hall and floor you are assigned to; we will honor these preferences as we are able. Regardless of which residence hall you are assigned, your first year at Emory is sure to be a memorable one.

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<p>You can however request a living/learning community which are in the nicer dorms

iving-Learning Communities
To help us better understand your interests and to help you start thinking critically about your first year, we ask incoming first-year students to fill out the following questionnaire. This questionnaire asks about your academic interests, extracurricular and program interests, and goals you have for your first year. You may also indicate your interest in specific living-learning communities through this questionnaire. Please budget between 15-20 minutes to complete this survey. Questions may be directed to Ryan Roche at <a href=“mailto:ryan.roche@emory.edu”>ryan.roche@emory.edu</a>.

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<p>I’d recommend doing the LLC option. I’ve only been to the “sustainability” dorm and was underwhelmed by its intensity of implementation (bias alert: I’m a somewhat stereotypical environmental science major), so even if your daughter isn’t big on the whole green movement, she’d be able to fit in fine.</p>

[merrymusicman]

<p>Yeah, Freshmen can’t choose but you kinda can with the LLC. You used to have to write an essay but now you just click the one you want. The LLC just means there are optional programs associated with the theme but you don’t have to go to them. That said, the programs are kinda nice if you are interested in the theme so pick one in a nice dorm that you might be interested in. Nice dorms are Hamilton Homes (Brand New), Longstreet-Means, Few and Evans, and Turman is nice too. Dobbs is older and smaller, but they recently renovated it and it tends to have greater spirit if you want that kind of stuff. Harris is not that good.</p>

<p>Overall: most of the dorms are really nice so it doesn’t really matter. Pay more attention to housing options for your second year.</p>

[bernie12]

<p>Harris’s interior is apparently undergoing renovation this summer (some other infrastructural work will apparently occur next summer). It isn’t too bad now (except the Dimness of it. And of course, the smell), but I imagine they’ll do a good job with it (maybe similar to Complex except they’ll apparently be adding new study spaces/lounges whereas Complex already had them and they simply needed new furniture and carpet). I’m interested to see or hear about what they’ll do with it.</p>