<p>Why wasn’t he allowed back into the village blue math?</p>
<p>he and his roommates went through all the proper channels to re-sign up for housing. when they were supposed to find out assignments, they were told that aubie was being converted to an “honors-only” dorm. I guess I am disappointed that the university did not tell them this earlier. All that waiting for nothing. I am sure it had to be known by the housing office of converting aubie to honors only… WHile he and his roommates are heritage scholars, none of them opted for the honors program. Since the 4 of them wanted to stay together, they opted for the apartment route…just a little late to find something walking distance.</p>
<p>Bluemath- I’m curious, why your student chose not to participate in the Honors College?</p>
<p>I currently live in Aubie, and just wanted to comment on the “not feeling apart of the college experience” sentiment. I totally disagree. I think we all participate as much as we want, but also study more than the average student. I have been to fraternity parties while I’ve been here, but I’ve also been to microeconomics study parties hahah. The only thing I am bummed about living here is that I haven’t gotten to meet as many freshman as my friends in the Quad/Hill. The Village is more spread out (which has its pros and cons) and thus you don’t get to personally know as many people. But, both my suitemates and I have met lots of amazing people here, and we generally hang out in the CDV/Village over the Quad. :)</p>
<p>Blue Math, I think they were late in knowing because they didn’t know how many official Pres. Scholars there would be. I’m a Pres Scholar, currently living in Aubie, and I’m 99% sure that everyone in Aubie is one also. If they aren’t Pres Scholars, they’re on some sort of partial tuition scholarship. So, maybe housing just waited a little bit too long to notify current students while waiting for potential freshman stats?</p>
<p>alwaysandforever, as a Presidential scholarship recipient, did you get to choose between the Village and the Quad or was that the luck of the draw? My son will be Pres scholar next year (possibly NMF) and wants to live in the Quad to be closer to Dudley where as an Architecture major he’ll be spending alot of his time.</p>
<p>You got to choose if you got your housing in early enough. But, I’ll be honest the Quad is not bad at all. My best friend lives in Broun (the honors Quad dorm) and she really likes it. It’s all about space-management haha 
If he is an architecture student and is picked for Foundations, than yes the Quad is probably easier. I’m not sure about those in Summer for architecture since they aren’t taking as many architecture classes, so not too helpful there. But, like someone mentioned before the security shuttle is SUPER useful and it’s really not THAT long of a walk. A guy who lives upstairs in Aubie is in Foundations and he is frequently in the studio. I’ve never heard him complain about it really.</p>
<p>son and suitemates are heritage scholars (2/3 tuition scholarship) but not “honors” program. so no aubie hall sophomore year. Since a 3.0 GPA is required to keep scholarship, son didn’t want to risk losing scholarship with a possible sub-par GPA in the harder honors classes. He didn’t want to spend all his time studying. Needless to say, he made dean’s list, but still happy to not be studying all the time (though he does do his share).</p>
<p>Thanks bluemath. We are not residents so we are not familiar with the program. Right now DS is a heritage scholar. He’ll take one more go at the SATs but I’m not too concerned. The scholarship is quite similar now that the presidential has dropped to 2/3 as well. He would be in the honors college. I don’t know if housing is handled differently for presidential scholars in honors, than heritage scholars in honors.</p>
<p>Oh well, he hasn’t made up his mind on Auburn. A lot will depend on what offers he receives in-state. I don’t blame him. Being 15hrs from home (and not an easy commute) doesn’t thrill me or him. Auburn seems to offer some really good things he may not find at the universities closer to home. It will have to be his decision. He’ll put in an early app and def put down the deposit to get housing. DH wasn’t thrilled with that when he found out it was not refundable. I explained it was ‘cost of doing business’ and part of the process. He’s still not thrilled. Oh well, take it out of my allowance. With housing tight, it’s the right thing to do. DS is getting lots of ‘free & short’ applications (good schools on the east coast) but not from Auburn. He’s not feeling so loved. I tried to tell him some schools just don’t do that. It’s a hard process.</p>
<p>Anyway, back on topic. Thanks to everyone on the great information regarding housing past the first year. It was very helpful!</p>
<p>A little off topic: If your child had a really strong background in certain subject areas in high school, the honor’s classes might be a breath of fresh air. My daughter loves chemistry and had three years in an IB school. She is in the honors program and choose to take honors chemistry. She loves it. Yes the labs are more challenging, but that has made it fun for her. One of her roommates is taking regular chemistry and she saw what she was doing and knew she would be bored to death in the reg level. She also wishes she had taken honors Calculus. Her adviser really didn’t want her to sign up for two honors classes first semester as a freshman, but the reg Calculus class is also very easy. She has decided that that will be her low key class. (She also had a two year IB math class that covered, not all, but most of the calculus concepts.)</p>
<p>Anyway, because of her strong high school preparation, the honors class isn’t slowing down her social life at this time. That might change later, but not right now. I can tell you that one of the honor school’s goals is to mentor students to be competitive for graduate scholarships. Depending on your child, that could be a real positive.</p>
<p>Don’t live at Cambridge. You can get a better deal elsewhere. It’s expensive for a single room with a shared bath, the food is AWFUL, and the AC doesn’t always work…big problem in this southern climate. Management stinks too.</p>