Housing/Roommate Form Advice

Sly_Si
Wed, 21 May 2008 06:15:55 +0000

I posted this last year, but here it is again: A summary of which dorms are all-frosh and which are 4-class. There’s nothing you can do about which one you get besides putting down your preferences on the form.

WILBUR
Cedro, Junipero (J-Ro), Otero, and Rinc are all frosh.
Okada (Asian ethnic theme) and Soto are 4-class.
Arroyo (Symbolic Systems focus) is upperclass.
Trancos was 4-class in the past, but will be upperclass this year.
Almost all rooms in Wilbur are one-room doubles (there are maybe 3 or 4 singles for frosh in the entire complex). Wilbur is on East Campus.

STERN
Larkin, Donner, and Burbank are all-frosh.
Zapata (Hispanic theme), Serra, and Twain are 4-class.
Upperclassmen in Serra and Zapata will have singles for fall quarter only; thus a bunch of new upperclassmen will move into these dorms at the beginning of winter quarter.
All Stern rooms are one-room doubles, AFAIK. Stern is on East Campus, slightly closer to the center than Wilbur.

BRANNER is all frosh.
Almost all rooms in Branner are two-room triples, laid out as a living room and a bedroom. There are one or two one-room doubles. Branner is on East Campus across the street from Wilbur and Stern. It has a reputation for being one of the most social dorms on campus.

FLORENCE MOORE (FLOMO)
Alondra is all-frosh. Half of Alondra residents are SLE students.
Cardenal and Faisan are 4-class. All frosh in these dorms are SLE students. All SLE students live in either Alondra, Cardenal, or Faisan.
Gavilan and Paloma are all frosh.
Loro and Mirlo are 4-class.
Almost all FloMo rooms are one-room doubles. FloMo is located in South Campus, across the street from Tresidder. It is very centrally located and is also close to the Row, where a lot of parties happen. However, it is on top of a hill, which makes biking home a bit of a pain if you live there. There is also a bit of a social stigma attached to being in SLE.

ROBLE is 4-class.
Frosh in Roble get 3-room quads, set up as two bedrooms and a living room. Roble is located on West Campus. It is the most centrally located of all the West Campus dorms. It is also the largest dorm on campus at ~300 students. Roble residents go next door to Lag for meals (don’t worry, it’s really close).

LAGUNITA
Ujaama (“Uj”) is the African American theme house. It is 4-class.
Naranja, Granada, Adelfa, and Eucalipto are all 4-class.
In the Lag dorms, with the exception of Uj, frosh get very small one-room doubles. For this reason, they are the least desirable dorms for frosh to live in.
Lag is located on West Campus next to Roble.

FROSOCO
Your packets probably describe FroSoCo in detail, so I won’t. It is all frosh and sophomores, naturally–the only dorm with that setup. Some frosh get two-room doubles (usually set up as one room for each person), but some get one-room doubles. FroSoCo on West Campus at the very end of Santa Teresa Street; it is the farthest dorm from the center of campus.