Chapter House occupancy

[alum]

Originally Posted by Sciencewoman

My daughter's school has a 2 year live on campus requirement, and Greek housing counts (it's owned by the university)...this makes for fierce competition to live in sophomore year, and each group has a system for determining who gets to live in (ADPi has a lottery, her Pi Phi chapter uses a merit points system, etc.). I wish we had that...they have no problems filling their houses.

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At this school, the dorms are old. My daughter's freshman year room was a 7 x 13 3td floor walk-up with a teeny tiny closet. In contrast, the sorority houses were built only about 15 years ago with tons of storage. She lived there the rest of her undergrad time despite having doubles as she said she couldn't rent anything off campus that was nearly as nice.

At my son's school, there is a live-in requirement of moving into the house from the semester following iniitation until graduation. It's not a university requirement but one from the fraternities themselves. The girls don't have this issue as the sororities are unhoused.

[Sciencewoman]

Originally Posted by alum

^^^
At this school, the dorms are old. My daughter's freshman year room was a 7 x 13 3td floor walk-up with a teeny tiny closet. In contrast, the sorority houses were built only about 15 years ago with tons of storage. She lived there the rest of her undergrad time despite having doubles as she said she couldn't rent anything off campus that was nearly as nice.

They've remodeled 3 of the dorms and torn down the 4th, over the past 2 years, and the seniors gush about how nice they are now compared to when they lived in. Wood's Creek upperclassmen apts. are still a dump, though (so I'm told...I've never been inside), so the Greek houses are definitely preferred by most sophomores. Also, the university passed a junior live on requirement that will take effect when the junior village is completed (now under construction).