<p>Hey guys!
So I’m a spring 2011 admitted freshman. I will be commuting for the fall (freshman connection) and will be living on campus in the spring. I requested housing a couple months ago saying that having a suite was my top choice and having a traditional dorm was my last. But now, I’m unsure whether or not I should change my housing request to Traditional Dorm being my top priority and maybe having a suite being my second. I want to change my request because I feel that if I live in a suite I will feel uncomfortable (no freshman in suites) and the Suites are really far from the buildings I will need to go to and the dorm halls my fall friends are living in. On the other hand, if I request a dorm hall, I might end up in one of the icky ones like Easton. Since I am requesting early, I’m sure i will get my top priority, because that’s what happened to most of my spring friends last year (my spring friend requested a dorm and got La Plata, and my other friend requested a suite and got a really nice one) So what do you guys think I should request?</p>
<p>Well, the thing about no freshmen being in suites isn’t completely true. The roommate that you’ll be sharing a room with will most likely be a spring 2011 freshman as well, at least that’s how it was for me, and the other roommates will be older. I don’t regret my decision to get a suite my freshman year, but it sounds like your cons overweigh your pros, so it’ll probably be better for you to live in a traditional hall. I doubt you’ll get dumped in Easton, I don’t think any of the spring admits in my univ class lived in Easton (nor did they live on south campus like I did). I remember they lived in LaPlata, Denton, Ellicott, etc but I don’t remember hearing Easton. Just tell them you don’t want Easton, it should be doable. It’s easier if you know which hall you want. I requested a suite two weeks before the spring housing due date in December and got it lol</p>
<p>Don’t bank on your roommate also being a spring admit.
I knew three spring admits well. One had a sophomore roommate in Ellicott. The other two had fall admit freshman in Hagerstown and one of them was tripled.
No idea when they requested.</p>
<p>wow thanks that really helped! but how can you tell them you don’t want Easton? do you just tell your advisor later on? and can you request which residence hall you prefer? thank youuu</p>
<p>I don’t know about your other question, but I know your advisor has nothing to do with it.(Unless you’re talking about something besides an academic advisor?..)</p>
<p>I mean, either way, they’ll place you wherever they have room. The housing situation is so bad that no one is really guaranteed housing at all and you have to be thankful for what you get! Housing’s housing! Especially on campus where you’re seculuded away from the (higher) potential sketchiness of off campus housing.</p>
<p>email them. <a href=“mailto:reslife@umd.edu”>reslife@umd.edu</a>
that’s what I did when I wanted a suite. they actually do read and respond to their emails. tell them any requests you have, including which hall you prefer. stick in back-up choices. remember, it’s not guaranteed they’ll be able to help you, but they’ll try, and it doesn’t hurt to ask.</p>
<p>DS was a freshman in Easton last year and knew at least one spring admit/freshman connection person who moved into Easton second semester. And Easton is not that horrible…no worse than the other traditional freshman dorms. What makes dorms horrible is the way people live in them…last year saw stupid pranks like toilets stuffed full of rolls of toilet paper. That can happen anywhere but the RAs work hard to police that kind of behavior.</p>
<p>true, I have heard people say that Easton isn’t all bad, but another reason i don’t want to end up in Easton is because it’s far away from where I want to go. LaPlata is fairly close to the buildings I need to visit, plus it has AC! thanks for all your help guys!</p>
<p>:) Just don’t hold your breath, stadeo. LOTS of people (all of whom are not freshmen) want LaPlata!!! Good luck. I figure the freshman dorm experience is one of those “rites of passage” of college…</p>