<p>It’s not a big secret that housing at Auburn is tight. It is one of the things we are concerned about. What are options for students that are in the Honors College and live in the wonderful ‘super suites’ their Freshman year? Can they expect to have this type of housing available their Soph year as well? If not what are the other options, besides the obvious one of moving off campus. </p>
<p>I don’t think DS wants to go with the intention of getting delegated to ‘lesser’ housing, or no housing at all as early as his second year. He may be ready to move off campus by his third year, however he would like to be able to stay at least his first two.</p>
<p>Girls who join sororities are expected to live in the Village their sophomore year. My undserstaning is that there enough juniors and/or seniors that there is no longer any reason for this to be required.
Look at Two 21 Armstrong on-line with respect to cost and space and distance from campus.
I do not know about housing for sophomore non-sorority folks on-campus, but off-campus housing is reasonable.</p>
<p>two 21 armstrong is nice but I didn’t see any prices-about how much?
I would think most freshman/soph live on campus and then junior/seniors move off campus</p>
<p>I’m sorry if I wasn’t clear. I wasn’t interested in off camp is housing, I want you know if on campus housing will be available to honors college students their second year, and what type of housing can be expected. </p>
<p>A part of the recruiting of prospective students is the really nice housing for Honors College students, known as super suites. If this is something only available the first year, I want to make sure my son understands while nice, it’s only one year. </p>
<p>Can anyone tell us what to expect. </p>
<p>Btw, this has no correlation to the Greek system. Honors College has nothing to do with sororities.</p>
<p>I understand your question. I do not think they will promise anything - they clearly state on their housing site <a href=“http://www.auburn.edu/housing[/url]”>www.auburn.edu/housing</a> that the policy is reviewed each year for Presidential Scholars. Our daughter is in the Honors College housing/Village/Aubie. She applied early, we sent the deposit the day she was admitted for the school and housing. Yes, we could have been throwing away the school deposit, but it was worth it to us to ensure housing and have a great day which determines where they live.<br>
She loves the village and will probably remain there for her sorority. Her sorority does not have a problem filling the rooms and therefore only requires sophomores if they are not filled. In fact, it is the top 40 GPA (those that want it) that get first option of living in their dorm.<br>
She loves the Village yet at times wonders if she has missed some of the Freshman experience living there. Along with that consider your child’s major. She is in Architecture which is not close to the Village when you go back and forth many times because the majority of your “work/homework” is done in the studio through the night. She said the security shuttle which runs all night is a great help. She had the option of changing to the Hill today (move day for those that need/want it if it is available) in a single (no one would want to live with an arch. major that has such odd hours!) - she chose not to saying the exercise back and forth is the only time she gets any chance for “exercise”.
We have learned so much in 2 weeks - keep asking! She is soooo happy with her decision to attend Auburn (socially & academically) and has no interest in coming home to S. FL other than to be with family.</p>
<p>Housing said that dorm assignments for every year fall back on when the student sent in their housing deposit freshman year. In any case, my daughter knows that she will have to accept whatever dorm assignment she gets in subsequent years because part of her scholarship money pays for on campus housing. If she only had the Presidential scholarship, I would probably look into off campus housing after freshman year because it is probably cheaper. With that said, I also think that the demand for Village housing by freshmen Presidential Scholars next year will be much less as the Presidential Scholarship has changed enough that many who would have gone to Auburn might not be able to go next year.</p>
<p>I understand that nothing is promised, that housing is not even guaranteed for freshman. The sorority housing has no bearing on my SON I was hoping for opinions from those who have been there who can give me a realistic idea of what he can expect. “Don’t worry most sophomores get housing with no problem, but even Honors college students usually don’t get the super suites past the first year.”. Or “You are probably going to be off campus, plan early.”.</p>
<p>We simply want a realistic idea based on others experience. Obviously the recruiter has their own agenda. Housing isn’t the only issue, but it’s one to consider. </p>
<p>I’m glad your daughter is having a good experience with her sorority. Good for her for having the grades to be considered for residence there!!</p>
<p>i agree with proud_mom, regarding the probable lower aubie demand with less presidential scholars for next year. also, when we were at auburn for the presidential scholars day they said they had not had so many and so many with such strong qualifications across the board, in the past. maybe they were just saying that…haha</p>
<p>anyway i don’t think we’ll know until months from now, so i’m not worried. it’ll work out. i think that no matter how long our son is in aubie, being in there for freshman year will be fantastic! later he’ll know who he wants to room with. (he roomed blind cuz we’re out of state)</p>
<p>he’s gotten immediately and completely involved in a campus ministry and is already really busy and finding his place. (he will participate in sports and playing his guitar/singing, as those are passions of his) missing out on the “freshman experience” was mentioned above; i’m assuming that’s based upon it being an honors dorm, and i understand. i think the kids in aubie have already demonstrated that they have priorities perhaps different than the general pop. that being said, there are those who are outgoing and those who are not. if they want to have the “freshman experience”, they can do that outside of their dorm. in the meantime, they can sleep and study without all the craziness. </p>
<p>my son has one suitemate who is a “partier” and friendly. the two get along well, even though my son is not a drinker/weed smoker. he also has a guy who virtually doesn’t come out of his room and keeps his door closed 24/7. that’s sad, but you can still get a mix in an honors dorm and that’s healthy for them, given that they already have a strong, healthy moral compass. so far, so good!</p>
<p>When I visited a few weeks ago I briefly spoke with one of the honor’s professors. He told me me there were a little over 300 Presidential Scholars and around 130 of those were NMF. It does sound as if they had a good number of high achieving freshmen this past year.</p>
<p>My son is 90% certain he will be going to Auburn to major in Architecture. He attended the Auburn Architecture Camp over the summer and we took campus tour and met with admissions folks. He will be in Honors College so will most likely live in honors dorms, preferrably the Quad due to its proximity to the school of architecture. During our visit, I didn’t get the message about on-campus housing being hard to keep after freshman year, would appreciate some additional insight so I’ll be better prepared when we make a follow up visit later this fall. Will he be able to stay in the Quad all five years if he so chooses?</p>
<p>honesty, bobf13, i can’t imagine a student who would want to stay in a dorm past their sophomore year, let alone for 5 years. your son should be in a great position to have many choices for where he resides.</p>
<p>I’m not saying its a given that my son will want to stay in the dorms the whole time, just wanting to know if that is an option. It sounds like the architecture students spend a lot of late hours in the studio, so being on campus would seem to be a big plus. Cost won’t be an issue since room & board will be paid by scholarship and/or PACT.</p>
<p>I lived in the dorms (not Auburn) for my entire college experience and the dorms these days are a lot cushier than what we had. </p>
<p>So again, is there an issue with my son being able to stay in the Quad as long as he wants?</p>
<p>^^^sorry, i don’t know if he can. oh, i sure do agree about how nice some of the dorms are compared to when i/we went to college. my son’s aubie/village is like an apartment! a nice one, at that.</p>
<p>I am not sure about five years but I would think four years is feasible since Auburn gives NMF a scholarship that includes a housing stipend for four years for on-campus housing.</p>
<p>I hate to speculate as to what Auburn will do in the future, but in the past, current dorm residents were given first shot at filling dorm spots for the coming year. My son is in his second year at the Village (first year in Talon, second year in Aubie), and he was told in February when they did the sign-ups that he could remain in dorms as long as he wants, although they couldn’t guarantee Village housing for next year. They told him he could go to honors housing in the Quad if there wasn’t room in Aubie next year for upperclass Presidential Scholars. He’s hoping to move to an apartment next year, so it’s a non-issue for us at this point.</p>
<p>My son is a NMSF at this point so NMF is a good possibility. The architecture degree is a 5 year program and we were told the Presidential scholarship would pay tuition for 5 years, didn’t think to ask about the room & board (if he gets NMF), will have to add that question to the list.</p>
<p>good luck! if he becomes nmf, i would think he would at least get partial r & b if not more. my son missed by 2 pts. in our state (ga), but he still received a corporate nmsc, departmental and the presidential. we’re pretty thankful.</p>
<p>my son was in aubie last year and loved it. he didn’t find out out until late march that he would not be allowed to stay in the village. with that said, he did find a nice student apartment off campus, but needs to take the bus to and from class. I just wish we had found out earlier that he would not get housing since he could have started looking to rent for one of the many apartments walking distance to class, but those gets snatched pretty early. I think the big thing is timing. There are many “off-campus” apartments that can actually be closer to class than some dorms. HOwever, if you find out too late that you will not be allowed back in the village, you may find that you have fewer housing choices close to campus and land yourself at an apartment a few miles from campus.</p>
<p>Question regarding off campus closer to classes than some dorms - do you know of any on campus the same side as the Hill which would put them by Dudley/Architecture?
Regarding Architecture and the Village - you are correct, lots of late hours. Our daughter is managing fine with living in Aubie for Honors College and Architecture after 3 weeks. Not sure what she will choose for next year. Not sure how long Honors College and Architecture together will last - so hard to schedule honors classes with the studio times: Freshman year -MWF 9 AM-1PM and the next 4 years MWF 1 PM - 5 PM. The other days you have other architecture classes which do not meet at other times, etc. It will be a challenge - they do not offer Honors Classes during the summer.</p>
I was hoping for opinions from those who have been there who can give me a realistic idea of what he can expect. “Don’t worry most sophomores get housing with no problem, but even Honors college students usually don’t get the super suites past the first year.”. Or “You are probably going to be off campus, plan early.”.</p>