Housing and Dining Preferences Survey
A. Housing Preferences
	First-Year	Soph.	Junior	Senior	Ada	ALL
No. surveyed	686	652	378	624	220	2,560
No. responded	442	511	284	414	103	1,754
Response rate	64.4%	78.4%	75.1%	66.3%	46.8%	68.5%
1. Level of interest in1
Single room	4.29	4.64	4.60	4.65	3.07	4.47
Double room	2.89	2.07	1.62	1.61	1.21	2.06
Suite	3.61	3.66	3.65	3.68	2.37	3.58
Co-op living	1.98	2.55	2.71	2.80	2.28	2.48
Apartment	2.15	2.85	3.25	3.19	3.24	2.84
Off-campus housing	1.38	1.84	2.33	2.44	3.10	2.01
Other	1.26	1.63	2.26	1.74	3.66	1.78
2. Would choose2
Single room	52.3%	52.0%	50.9%	51.6%	19.8%	50.0%
Double room	18.4%	6.7%	1.4%	0.5%	1.0%	7.0%
Suite	23.6%	25.5%	22.3%	19.6%	5.2%	22.0%
Co-op living	1.6%	4.3%	6.0%	7.1%	5.2%	4.6%
Apartment	3.2%	8.7%	13.1%	12.7%	27.1%	10.0%
Off-campus housing	0.7%	2.8%	5.7%	7.8%	32.3%	5.5%
Other	0.2%	0.0%	0.7%	0.7%	9.4%	0.9%
1 Data shown are means. Actual responses ranged from 1 (not at all likely to request) to 5 (highly likely
to request).
2 Data shown are response frequencies.
Sources: Housing and Dining Preferences Survey, Fall 2002; Office of Institutional Research.