Dorms Guide
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This Dorms Guide gives a general overview of housing options on Duke's campus.
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[edit] Breakdown of Housing at Duke
All undergraduates are required to live on campus for their first three years. To opt-out of the planned on-campus living arrangements carries a steep financial (and some might argue social) penalty.
Undergraduates are housed on all three campuses. East Campus is home to Freshman. The West Campus residence hall quads house sophomores, as well as some juniors and seniors. The Central Campus apartments house juniors, seniors, and graduate students. Approximately 5500 of Duke's students reside in on-campus arrangements, in either residence halls or apartments.
[edit] Housing Choice
Freshman year assignments are made over the summer, based on preference and matching information collected in May and early June. Upperclass students select their communties and housing assignments in March for the following academic year. Graduate studentsapply for housing in January. Freshman have the option of living in the substance-free Brown Dormitory. Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors have the option to join Living/Learning Communities, a Selective Living Group, or a Fraternity or Sorrority. The option to live in the Duke Smart House will soon become available to Pratt students.
[edit] Housing Allocation and the Lottery System
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[edit] Blocking
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[edit] East Campus Dorms
All of the Freshman dorms at Duke are located on the East Campus, and vary widely in size and quality. The dorms have been divided by the University into four "neighborhoods." Each neighborhood has its own Residential Coordinator in charge of the RAs of that neighborhood.
[edit] East 1 Neighborhood:
The East 1 Neighborhood dorms are part of the original set of dorms that made up the original Women's Campus along with Neighborhoods 2 and 3. The dorms are older and do not possess air conditioning except for students with allergies and special needs. Brown houses the East Campus Wellness Living Learning Community and is basically the Alcohol-free East Campus dorm.
[edit] East 2 Neighborhood:
The East 2 Neighborhood dorms are part of the original set of dorms that made up the original Women's Campus along with Neighborhoods 1 and 3. The dorms are older and do not possess air conditioning except for students with allergies and special needs. Jarvis is engaged in a perennial rivalry with Aycock. Sadly, Aycock's unfortunate name makes it easier to prank.
[edit] East 3 Neighborhood
- Gilbert-Addoms or "GA"
- Southgate
The East 1 Neighborhood dorms are part of the original set of dorms that made up the original Women's Campus along with Neighborhoods 1 and 2. The dorms are older and do not possess air conditioning except for students with allergies and special needs. Both Southgate and GA are incredibly unique. Gilbert-Addoms once housed the cafeteria for the Women's campus. Southgate once housed all of Duke's engineers.
[edit] East 4 Neighborhood
The East 4 Neighborhood dorms are all relatively new. Randolph and Blackwell are mirror images of each other, with Randolph/Blackwell rotated ninety degrees in relation to each other. These dorms all have air-conditioning. The rooms in Randolph and Blackwell are incredibly small compared to those of most other east campus dorms, and the walls are white-painted cinder-blocks rather than traditional wood-paneling (like Bell Tower, or stucko (every other dorm).)
