I’m really attached to my double bed that has a tempurpedic cover on it. Obviously, I’ve made my peace with the fact that I will not be able to have a double bed at boarding school(unless there is a way?) Do a lot of students bring tempurpedic mattress covers for the beds at boarding school? I’m really tall, so are they Twin XL’s? If you have a roommate can you request bunk-beds? Can you request a loft bed with a desk underneath? Can you raise the bed up?
Also, the schools I applied to are St. Andrews School, Andover, Milton, St. Pauls School, and Exeter (so I don’t really care about the beds at other schools.)
Gryff-
You may want to wait to ask this question until you know where you’ll be next year.
Maybe the bed will be a deal-breaker…(JK) @Sue22
I can pretty much guarantee you that a) you will not have a double bed and b) you will not be able to “request” the kind of bed you want. Are you familiar with the preschool adage? You get what you get, and you don’t get upset
LOL. No!!
While I agree that this level of questioning is best left until such time as a decision is actually in hand, this question is a fairly generic question that would interest others in addition to Gryff.
In general, beds are Twin XL, but some schools may not be XL. The housing office at each school will provide that information to their admitted students. I personally recommend that students either bring some type of mattress topper, or buy one once on-campus since BS mattresses are not known for comfort.
Whether beds are bunkable or loftable will be specific to the school (and may vary by dorm). If the beds are not bunkable, no you cannot request bunkbeds. It should go without saying that any decisions to bunk/unbunk beds (if an option) needs to be made in consultation with the roommate.
Ok. Thanks @LifeLongNYer I was wondering because in another post I hear about adjustable beds that go up 4ft and then on a tour I heard you could request what kind of bed (loft or on the floor) you want, and I wasn’t sure if those things held true for more than just those schools.
Thanks. @skieurope
These seem to be becoming a standard at universities and boarding schools. No desk beneath, but some will put a sitting area beneath, or storage/drawers, or even a hammock. Some put them at regular height, or lower. Adjust as you see fit.
I have seen these multiple places, but of course you will have to check with the individual school. I do not recall seeing any bunk beds.
Do dorm rooms have small closets?
They’re relatively small. You can request for lofted beds and how high you want your bed to be, you can’t request the size of it. I had a tempurpedic mattress topper on mine.
I think that most schools will have XL twin beds. I can’t imagine that any of them would have full size. Keep in mind that many boarding school kids are quite tall so they make sure that they will be appropriate size. I swear I have never seen such a population of tall people! I would also expect that most beds are the type that can be raised and thus provide some space for storage and or living underneath. The kids at my DS’s school love it as they have easier access to climb over the 3/4 walls of their dorm or just perhaps just to throw things at expecting dorm mates!
“Tripling up” is big in colleges right now. That’s when the school overadmits, then puts three people in a double room, taking a bit off the rate in our case and calling it an “economy” room. These are not optional where my older son goes - “you get what you get…” I don’t know if they have been doing this in BS? In the case of my son, he could not be happier and really does not care about the room at all.
I remember at my grad school dorm, tall friends said their legs/feet stick out of the bed by several inches and they do get used to it. :-j
Basketball players that are like 6’8" get extra long beds to accomodate.
It seems from all of the fifteen or twenty schools we toured, boys had the worst dorms and freshmen boys the worst of the worst. We bought a mattress topper and comfy pillows. My guess is you’ll be so tired, you could sleep on a bed of rocks. My child looks forward to being in his bed but has never complained about not being able to sleep! Good luck to you!
Most of the rooms in the boy’s freshman dorm at Choate do not have closets, just a small free-standing wardrobe shorter than ChoatieKid and narrower than his armspan. Moral: Don’t bring more than a couple of suitcases of clothes.
I would venture to say that no one wants to go away to boarding school for the comfort of the beds. But, then again, if that is the deciding factor, then maybe being home is the right choice! 
(kidding of course). Basically, you need to assume that you “get what you get” and that the experience of dealing with it is your gain.