Housing and Dining Preferences Survey
B. Theme Housing Preferences
	First-Year	Soph.	Junior	Senior	Ada	ALL
3. Level of interest in1
Class year	1.57	1.53	1.69	1.99	1.59	1.68
Language-based	1.81	1.91	1.87	2.09	1.68	1.91
Academic/intellectual	1.81	1.84	1.86	1.67	1.99	1.80
Course-related	1.30	1.20	1.18	1.18	1.42	1.23
Community service	1.60	1.59	1.59	1.57	1.65	1.59
Leadership skills	1.48	1.47	1.51	1.42	1.54	1.47
Wellness, recreation, fitness	1.83	1.78	1.81	1.76	1.76	1.79
Substance-free	2.31	2.05	1.88	1.90	2.03	2.05
Specialized diet	1.83	1.80	2.03	1.98	1.68	1.88
Other	1.60	2.10	1.98	1.96	1.83	1.91
4. Would choose2
Class year	3.6%	2.8%	6.1%	8.0%	6.2%	5.0%
Language-based	5.9%	7.9%	7.2%	9.0%	6.2%	7.4%
Academic/intellectual	7.1%	4.3%	8.6%	3.2%	14.4%	6.0%
Course-related	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
Community service	0.7%	1.0%	1.1%	1.5%	0.0%	1.0%
Leadership skills	0.7%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
Wellness, recreation, fitness	5.0%	4.9%	1.8%	4.4%	3.1%	4.2%
Substance-free	10.3%	7.1%	2.2%	4.4%	4.1%	6.3%
Specialized diet	4.1%	4.5%	6.5%	6.3%	4.1%	5.1%
Other	2.3%	3.3%	5.8%	4.4%	9.3%	4.0%
Would not choose theme housing	59.7%	63.3%	60.4%	58.8%	52.6%	60.2%
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.