University Housing vs Private housing

Balthezar
Sun, 09 May 2010 10:50:58 +0000

You can always visit people in University Housing, if you choose Certified Private Housing (CPH), and they can visit you too. The main differences between University Housing and CPH are that with a University Residence hall, you can dine in any residence hall dining facility, while in CPH, you can only dine in their facility. This isn’t a big deal, since they provide grab-and-go lunches for people who find it inconvenient to get back to the facility to eat lunch. You mainly double, and, in some cases, triple up in university dorms, and share larger bathroom facilities with half a dorm floor. At CPH the rooms are generally larger, and many opportunities exist to get a single room that either just shares a bathroom with one other person, or is configured like a 4 bedroom apartment with a shared bathroom among the 4 residents. Cleaning services are provided for both the bedrooms and common areas in CPH. Only the common areas are cleaned in University Housing. Lastly, you’ll pay anywhere from $100 - $300 more a month for the living arrangements and the facilities at CPH. About 1 in 4 entering freshman choose CPH over a University Residence Hall.

Those are the major differences to me. Chime in with others, if you think I missed something.