you can’t have the ‘freshman dorm’ experience because you aren’t a freshman anymore and they don’t have the space.
Life is a series of trade-offs, if the experience is that important to you, i am sure you can find a school that dorm’s transfer students in with freshmen -but you can’t go to Davis. Trust me, as noted above, you don’t want all the rules anyhow. There are tons of meet and greet opportunities in the opening weeks of school.
If you are really just gotta have it, be an RA next year.