This Saturday a majority of the freshman class will decide, based upon personal preference and, more importantly, lottery numbers, where they will live next year. Apartments and Copley suites have already been meted out to a lucky few, but the rest will have to decide between Southwest Quad, LXR, Village C East and Copley doubles.
Christine Conforti (COL ‘10), along with many other freshman, has her sights set on Southwest Quad.
“It reminds me of New South,” she said. “I’m used to dorm living, and that’s a dorm-living situation.”
Village C East and LXR do not seem to be as high on students’ lists of housing choices.
Emma Wischusen (COL ‘09), a McCarthy Hall resident, is happy she decided to live in the Southwest Quad over LXR when she was a first-year student.
“I like Southwest Quad a lot. It’s clean, quiet … there’s nothing that breaks down all the time. The toilet seats [in LXR] always look like there’s permanent vomit on them,” she said.
Christina Shaw (COL ‘10), who got number 79 in the apartment lottery, is still holding out hope for an apartment.
“I have no idea. I don’t want to be in a double. I want to be in an apartment,” she said. “There’s still a chance.”
About 40 apartments in Henle, Alumni Square, and Copley Suites are open to rising sophomores, roughly the same number as last year, according to Karen Frank, Vice President of Facilities and Student Housing Services. Though apartments have already been picked, the possibility of students switching rooms or transferring keeps the wait list open until the start of fall semester, Frank said.
Over the past two years, enrollment has increased by 81 students, part of a gradual plan to increase the total enrollment by 385 students, according to Dean of Admissions Charles Deacon. Frank wrote in an e-mail that “housing is just one consideration” in setting the enrollment target.
The class of 2010 has 1,586 students, up from 1,526 in the class of 2009, according to Deacon. This year, some freshmen were put in Village C East, which also houses upperclassmen separately.
