Wesleyan Housing Options?

pickwick1
Sat, 01 Aug 2015 01:23:42 +0000

There are a certain, small percentage of freshman who get placed in a single, but generally singles go only to the freshman who beg and plead for them. If you don’t give Wes a good reason on your housing app why you should get a single, you are almost certainly going to be put in a double (or a small percentage get placed in a triple; but my S survived a triple quite well, so don’t fear its all managable). Many of those singles you are seeing in the BUTTs are designated as “Copenhagens,” which is one of the sophomore housing options. I don’t know why they call them Copenhagens, but what that means is 6 sophomores get together as a group and agree to take a cluster of rooms together (often dead-ending a hall) made up primarily by singles that have been pre-designated as Copenhagen housing. You are with your friends, but in a single - so many sophs like it, but lots of sophs do program housing (mine did) sophomore year or maybe or other dorms that are mostly sophs.

You really are not afforded lots of choice as a freshman (this is almost universally true at all colleges). There are a few specialty options you can ask for, but other than those, they will randomly assign you somewhere and it WILL all be good. It is part of the experience! Sit back and enjoy the ride.