Earl Warren College and Sixth College will be able to house all of their on-campus students in their colleges next year. Meanwhile, Eleanor Roosevelt College and Thurgood Marshall College will be able to house all their second-year and scholar students in the apartments, but will have to continue to house some of their incoming freshmen in the Revelle College residence halls, according to the colleges’ resident deans. John Muir College and Revelle College will have to house some second-year students at other colleges, while housing all of their freshmen on their own campuses.

According to ERC Resident Dean Reynaldo Guerrero, the number of residence hall spaces on the campus as a whole is enough to house the number of incoming freshmen in the university, a reason that did not justify the construction of even more residence halls in the new ERC complex.

“We have enough spaces so that we can guarantee housing on campus,” Guerrero said. “However, the problem is each college doesn’t have the same number [for their students].”

Muir and Revelle also face the similar situation of possibly having to house some of their second-year students in their residence halls due to their lack of adequate apartment space, according to their residence deans.

“The residence halls are great, but living in an on-campus apartment allows students to progress in their personal development and self-reliance,” said Don Nghiem, the A.S. representative to the Housing and Dining Advisory Committee. “I am actually quite concerned that continuing students from these colleges will not be afforded the same opportunity to grow and develop in the apartments as students from other colleges.”

According to Revelle Resident Dean Kevin Jones, Revelle hasn’t had to house second-year students in the residence halls for the last five years.

“Continuing students generally don’t want to live in the residence halls because [apartment life] shows a sense of growth and maturity,” Jones said.

According to Jones, Revelle will be able to house 421 continuing students in the Matthews and Pepper Canyon apartments, sending 20 students into the Warren apartments and 60 students in the Revelle residence halls.

“Generally, all colleges have had the ability to tell their students up front what they can offer,” Jones said. “However, Revelle and Muir are only able to tell their students where some places are on a ‘we’ll let you know when we know’ basis.”

Some Revelle freshmen are upset with the possibility that they may have to continue living in the residence halls next year.

“If I have to live in the residence halls next year, I‘m moving off campus,” Revelle freshman Aaron Trinh said. “They need to stop promising guaranteed housing or accepting people if they don’t have enough space.”

As the newest college, Sixth College aims to house all of its students on its campus to increase a sense of community, allotting space in the Pepper Canyon apartments to the overflowing freshmen from Camp Snoopy next year, an option not offered to the college in the past two years.

Muir will likely have to house overflowing continuing students at Warren Apartments, Pepper Canyon, and its residence halls, according to Muir Resident Dean Pat Danylshyn-Adams.

“Our priority is to house all our freshmen in the Muir campus because right now we have 100 freshmen housed at Revelle,” Danylshyn-Adams said.

Adams said that the distribution of students for next year will be contingent on the final number of freshmen entering in fall 2004, which the college won’t know until they are given the number of accepted students who turned in their statements of intent to register.

In order to accommodate for the limited space at Muir, temporary spaces will have to be made, turning triples into quadruples and allowing some student organization rooms to be made into doubles, according to Danylshyn-Adams.

“We’ve been dealing with this situation for the past few years; it works from year to year,” Danylshyn-Adams said. “In fact, it’s almost regular that our students are housed elsewhere on campus.”

The offered spaces for next year may be more favorable for students because Muir students will be offered single rooms at Pepper Canyon Apartments, while the apartments at Earl Warren College offer only doubles, Danylshyn-Adams said.

Still, some Muir freshmen said they don’t look forward to possibly having to live off the Muir campus.

“I think it adds to the community feeling when you’re in a situation housed with everyone else in your college,” Muir freshman Eric Randel said. “That sense of community would be lost if you were housed in a different college.”

Room selection will take place from May 17 to May 20. The process will take place online for the first time.