<p>Hi, </p>
<p>I’m an international student attending Brandeis this fall. For the housing application, you can decide whether you want a single-sex floor or a mixed one… And I have no idea. Any advices or personal experiences? What are the pros and cons? (Maybe the bathroom factor…?)</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>As for the bathrooms, I hear that in the co-ed dorms there is a vote on each floor for co-ed or separate bathrooms. And I hear that separation always wins out. I’m not attending currently so I couldn’t say for sure, though.</p>
<p>The floor gets to vote on co-ed and single sex bathrooms, and if a single person is uncomfortable with co-ed it automatically goes to single sex, so it must be unanimous. That is what I was told when I visited. So, then if the bathrooms are the same on single and multi gender, it comes down to if you are more comfortable with just your sex, or if you want a different experience. Either way, chances are the floor above or below you will be mixed gender.</p>
<p>how about the overall experience of living in a single sex floor or mixed?? Does it make any difference… atmosphere wise?? I read somewhere that for entering international freshman… it is better to bond with a single sex floor or something of the sort?</p>
<p>how come there are so many views and but no answer…? 
any current student around? alumni?</p>
<p>It’s totally a matter of preference. I live on an all-girls floor (though I didn’t request it - a lot of people request coed so inevitably many of them will end up on single-gender floors, since it’s about half and half), and I really like it. It’s cleaner and quieter than the guys’ floors, in general, although that could definitely just be my floor having quiet girls. I’ve noticed a lot more substance use on all-male floors but again, that could just be the particular floors I’ve observed. I know of an all-girls floor where the girls became really close and never met very many male friends, which in my opinion is not a good thing - so keep in mind that that could happen. </p>
<p>I don’t really have an opinion either way. Like I said, I had a positive experience this year living on a single-gender floor but I think it would have been fine if it had been a mixed-gender floor.</p>
<p>Thank you very much! I guess I’ll have to listen to my guts, and then it’s also be a matter of random luck where you end up… hope all turns out for the best!</p>