<p>No, Musselman is not a particularly sought after housing option. My daughter says it is traditionally mainly sophomores, but many sophomores choose other options. My daughter mentioned the Ice House Complex and Stevens Hall as places where some of her friends are housing next year. My daughter is in a suite next year, but that is mostly because she is rooming with two other sophomores and a junior. The junior, although she was pretty much last on the housing selection list for rising jrs. because of the fact that she is rooming with sophomores, was able to snag a suite and pull dd and friends with her. The reason their jr. friend asked them to room with her is that the students she had been rooming with during HER sophomore year are studying abroad next year, and she had met my dd and friends in a class and they all got along well. Just thought I’d mention that if your dd would like to try for a suite her second year, she might want to put out some feelers with any current sophomores who are remaining on campus as juniors. My daughter did not plan it this way, but it just worked out as a happy byproduct of becoming friends with this particular student. </p>
<p>I think the reasons that the college is using Musselman for the overflow freshmen is that 1. it is traditional dorm style housing, and 2. if you glance at a map of campus, you’ll see that it is right near all the other first year dorms. </p>
<p>BTW, I asked daughter when she got her housing assignment last year. She said that she had thought she had been told it would be available Aug. 1, but that it was available somewhere online before that. Sorry that she doesn’t remember where…she only found out her assignment early because her roommate found it and contacted her.</p>
<p>One last thing I thought of that might interest your daughter—although first years do not register for spring semester classes until later in the year, all the classes are listed to look at. You can find them in the registrar’s section of the website; click “class search.” This way your daughter can look at times and sections and come up with a few plans. She is lucky in that she should be able to register before most of the first years, but even with that advantage, she might not get her first choice of classes, so it’s important to have a few different options in mind. My daughter knows this firsthand; she was unable to get a class she wanted for this year and had to go with an alternate, despite being one of the first rising sophomores to register. </p>
<p>Hope this info is useful.</p>