<p>What is the difference between Shared, Shared by floor, Semi-Private and Suite bathrooms?</p>
<p>And for anyone who's been to Davidson, Amherst, Vanderbilt, Grinnell, Holy Cross or Tufts; what are the bathrooms like (any category)?</p>
<p>Shared - shared by everybody, not just on the same floor. I haven’t seen this usually though since most floors have their own bathrooms.</p>
<p>shared by floor - obviously shared by people on the same floor.</p>
<p>semi private - not sure… maybe it has your toilet/sink and no shower?</p>
<p>suite - shared by your suite mates, usually 4 people (2 people in each room)</p>
<p>My D is at Holy Cross, her floor is all female. She has a nice bathroom, clean most of the time, large, dressing area alongside each shower stall, shared by her floor. (she’s in freshman dorm)The other wing on her floor has their own.</p>
<p>Semi-private</p>
<p>Basically a full bathroom shared by two or three rooms (usually two) that don’t also have a common room (so it’s not a suite).</p>
<p>^Hmm. At my boyfriend’s school (and I believe mine as well, but I am not sure) a suite is two separate dorm rooms with a shared bath, no common area.</p>
<p>S’s dorm in Grinnell has separate bathrooms for men and women on the same floor. But couldn’t say if that’s true for all the dorms. His is among the newer dorms.</p>
<p>I’m at Vanderbilt, there’s nothing amazing nor is there anything terrible about the bathrooms here. They’re just bathrooms. Just like in high school, without the graffiti on the walls, haha, and they’re very clean. For the most part, the bathrooms are shared by floor. For the freshmen who live on Commons, in the newest dorms (Hank Ingram, Crawford, Sutherland,… idk some others), each floor has a certain number of bathrooms. On the floor I lived on as a freshman in Hank Ingram House, there were about 60 girls (hugest dorm on campus). At each end of the hall, there were 3 bathrooms, each of which had 2 toilets and 2 shower stalls. So we had about 10 girls to each shower/toilet, and that was noooo problem at all. Everything was super clean, I never (ever) had to wait for a shower stall to open up nor did I ever have to wait to use the restrooms. Very nice tiled floors and nice hot water in the showers.</p>
<p>After freshman year at Vanderbilt things change, because the dorms are smaller and older, so I think there are fewer shower/toilets on each floor of the dorm… currently I have maybe 20-30 girls on my hall and there is one central bathroom with 3 toilets and 3 showers, again, no problem at all with waiting or with cleanliness. The shower stalls are pretty small though this year, but not that bad. The guy’s bathrooms are all fine as well. </p>
<p>Later at Vanderbilt, if you get a suite (like in Towers or wherever) there are shared bathrooms where you’ll have like 4 or 6 people in your suite (the suite having a common living area, and double or single rooms attached, and a kitchen and a bathroom) to share within the suite.</p>
<p>Supposedly there’s some freshman dorm here (idr which one) that has private bathrooms… private for each room, I mean. But all the freshman dorms are double rooms (the VAST majority anyway, and you can’t request a single. Some people get singles anyway for whatever reason), so you’re still sharing.</p>