<p>Is it a lottery or I have a chance to choose anything at all?</p>
<p>Depends.</p>
<p>Certain dorms are reserved for Scholars, Gemstone and Honors. If you are not in these programs you can only get into them if there is room left at the inn.</p>
<p>Than what occurs is the students already there get into dorms on a pt system, which is used for when they request their dorms for the next yr…typically around now. Obviously, the student who opts to live on campus is not going to say, I want Easton. They are going to go for the newer, better dorms.</p>
<p>That means come summer, incoming freshman get what’s left over.</p>
<p>If you think you can get a single room in a new dorm, I would say chances are you have a better chance of winning a car from your church’s raffle.</p>
<p>Freshmen are the very last people to be assigned rooms (and it’s not done until late in the summer)…and by that time, there is very little (i.e. almost NO) chance to specify a preference that will mean anything. They fill Ellicott w/ Gemstone, Denton w/ honors, Cambridge Community w/ Scholars, and then start assigning freshmen to rooms. Most likely, you can expect to be in one of the older high rise dorms, as that’s where the rooms are, but you can also be randomly assigned to any of the other dorms on campus—they fill those rooms as they are available. There were several people on DD1’s floor on Denton that were not in the honors program. DD2’s Scholars group took up more than one floor in Centreville–she was on the “other” floor–maybe about a third to half(?) were in the scholars program she was in, and the rest were freshmen who were assigned to fill up the rooms, not in any of the Scholars programs.</p>
<p>You can look at all the dorms on the website and all the various places they are located, but you will “most” likely be in North Campus, and don’t “really” have much of a choice.</p>
<p>Thank you all! I know… we are at the bottom, lol! However, has it ever been a chance that there was overflow, and you could find yourself with no room at all?
I would be happy to have a place to “perch”, haha!</p>
<p>No, freshmen are guaranteed dorms so that wouldn’t be possible. Plus they’re opening a new residence hall next semester with 700 beds anyway.</p>
<p>Goodday,</p>
<p>Yes they are guaranteed housing, but not guaranteed specific dorms.</p>
<p>Apples and oranges.</p>
<p>Let’s be real the new hall will probably be filled with UMDCP 13/14 and anyone from 15 getting in will be stragglers.</p>
<p>MD system…
You get points, higher points you get more choices regarding dorms…I will not muddy the waters regarding roommates.</p>
<p>Again even with a new hall, all you will see is rising sophs take those spots and more fresh get Leonardtown…new and old. </p>
<p>700 beds cut me a break, that is 5% for just one class yr.</p>
<p>Well yeah but colormaker was wondering that if there were too many freshman that there wouldn’t be enough rooms for freshman. That wouldn’t be the case at all, especially with a new residence hall opening for sophomores and juniors.</p>
<p>700 beds in my opinion makes a huge difference, considering it was enough to guarantee juniors housing, a really big deal. It may not seem like much to you, but you need to consider that many of the students (namely juniors) that are qualified for Oakland are probably going to be living in off campus housing or commons because they’re sick of living in dorms or other circumstances (ie frat houses). You really shouldn’t be thinking of a whole entire class year trying to vy for on campus housing. 700 is a big number for a dorm meant for sophomores (most of which will probably prefer to live on south campus for proximity anyway) and juniors. Myself and most people I know don’t want to live in Oakland because it’s SO far away.</p>
<p>Actually they have a thing called flex rooms. In other words, some doubles can be converted to triples, triples to quads.</p>
<p>And yes, every yr that happens, so regardless of the new dorm, what you will probably see is that they will still not have a dorm choice per se, but also less chance of being placed in a flex rooms.</p>
<p>Colormaker…as long as you confirm housing by their cut-off date (is it still May 1?) you’re guaranteed on-campus housing…somewhere. However, the later you confirm, the lower you are on the priority list. The people who confirm the latest are more likely to get forced triples. In the past, there have even been lounges that have been converted into multi-person dorm rooms to start off the school year. There are enough people who drop out early on that these people usually get placed elsewhere, but what a hassle that would be. Hopefully the 700 add’l beds might make a difference, but it’s hard to tell.</p>
<p>Thank you so much for all your information!</p>