<p>Here is the link to the housing communitiies at Dartmouth:</p>
<p><a href=“Home | Office of Residential Life”>Home | Office of Residential Life;
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<li><p>Approximately one half of the freshman class will live in the River or Choats Dorms.</p></li>
<li><p>As freshmen, you do not get to choose where you want to live freshman year with the exception of:</p></li>
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[li] living in the East Wheelock cluster (which you apply for this housing that takes about 130 students per year) [/li]<a href=“Home | Office of Residential Life”>Home | Office of Residential Life;
<p>[li] The choice as to whether or not you want to live substance free. Butterfield and Russell Sage are substance free communities. First-year students are assigned primarily to triple rooms in Russell Sage, which is a mixed class community. Butterfield is all upperclass. Here, most upperclass students live in single rooms, and two-room triple and double rooms. The Hyphen, which connects Russell Sage with Butterfield, provides a kitchen, TV room, and common meeting space for cluster residents.</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Smoke free - Gile is smoke-free[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>As Wisconsinguy says the is a move toward making almost all of the dorms smoke free. </p>
<p>The housing questionnaire is pretty short and asks questions such as if you are an early riser, neat freak, you need noise or quiet etc.</p>
<p>You pretty much keep the room that you aare assigned to freshman year for the entire year.</p>
<p>Sophmore year you go into the housing draw.</p>