<p>Best being defined as nicest bathrooms with the least amount of people sharing them :)</p>
<p>You won't really have that much choice; there are several dorms that first year students are put in, since freshman live in freshman dorms with hall counselors who are juniors. Bathrooms are not particularly attractive or generously distributed but none are awful. </p>
<p>You can go on the Student Life/Residential Life section of the Davidson Web site and see the room layouts and configurations in the different dorms but you cannot request a specific freshman dorm as far as I know. </p>
<p>The worst housing is generally agreed to be what are known as the sophomore apartments, but by the time you are choosing soph housing you will have a different set of criteria anyway.</p>
<p>Thank you. Does your son attend Davidson?? How does he like the size of the school?</p>
<p>My Davidson student has been very happy there; both my children attended small colleges because they were looking for the kind of community experience that you would associate with a small school where people know each other and professors live nearby. The one drawback might be that there are not huge numbers of classes offered every semester, which limits choices a little bit, but the flip side of that is the excellence of the teaching. It's really a matter of preference whether small or large schools work better for a given student, and it is certainly possibly to create your own sense of community at a larger school or to find ways to expand your horizons at a small one.</p>
<p>We are going out on the weekend of March 27-29. Can you recommend a nice hotel close to the campus??</p>
<p>My freshman son is in Belk. He loves it - but I think its more the people than the building - although he likes being "up the hill." He's not too thrilled about his sophomore year likely choices. He'll probably be down the hill in the sophomore apartments. But my guess is he won't mind so long as there's room for a ping pong table somewhere.</p>
<p>Look into the Carnegie Guest House on campus. I'd stay there any time I could. More like a B&B than a hotel. The Davidson Village Inn is very nice and very convenient. Really the only hotel in Davidson proper. There is also a Spring Hills Suites just up the road. New and very nice. There's apparenty a new suites hotel in Davidson - Homewood? or something like that. Check that out too if all else fails.</p>
<p>The Hampton Inn Lake Norman in Cornelius (Exit 28) is very pleasant and usually very reasonably priced; you can get to and from Davidson via teh local road so don't have to del with getting back onto I-77.</p>
<p>Tthe Carnegie Guest House is my favorite but with only eight rooms often fully booked; Davidson Village Inn is also really nice and convenient, because then you can walk across the street to campus. But if you cannot get in to either of those I would go with the Hampton Inn, since I think you would have to drive from the new places at Exit 30 anyway and the traffic pattern with the new circles neat the new development is a little awkward--though I hear the new Harris Teeter is great. I know one of the new places has been advertising in the Davidsonian that it will welcome graduation weekend visitors--cannot remember which one though.</p>
<p>My daughter is in Belk with hall baths. I have been in the women's restroom and found it to be extremely nice and very well maintained. Also, large closet and storage areas.</p>
<p>Well, I at least was able to reserve 1 night at the Carnegie guest house on the 28th. That way if d chooses not to sleep in the dorm she can just walk to the guest house. 27th is still up in the air. Village Inn is full. I was trying to take a cab from the airport to the campus rather than rent a car..but the other hotels are to far to walk.</p>
<p>We have a "casual dinner" to attend that evening. On the west coast casual for teens usually means jeans...I am assuming that casual in NC may mean slacks or skirt??</p>
<p>Also, is the Belk Dorms where the Belk Scholars are assigned?? Or is it just another Freshman Dorm.</p>
<p>Thank you for all your suggestions.</p>
<p>Belk is the largest first-year dorm, with floors alternating by male and female. I don't think Belk Scholars or any of the other scholarship holders are housed separately.</p>
<p>i would try to find out more about the dinner before planning the wardrobe--if it is outside on the Chambers lawn then it really is casual, but I think even so it might be something other than a jeans event. Casual does mean jeans in a social setting with peers at Davidson but if it is with staff and other grownups then it might mean something a little different--casual skirt or non-jean pants with nice sweater or knit top if weather isn't too warm--really hard to say without knowing the context more precisely. (It can be either cold or warm in Davidson and environs in late March--there was frost in Winston-Salem the first weekend in April last year.) Skirts can be worn very casually at Davidson incidentally--with flip-flops for example, or those increasingly ubiquitous ballet flats, which are also worn a lot woth jeans.</p>
<p>We are coming for the Belk Scholarship finalist weekend. It is a welcoming dinner..casual attire. 30 student, 10 get chosen and the others become Chambers Scholars...which I am unable to find any information on. But we are excited about coming and meeting the students, Professors, etc. Thanks for the tip on the weather..we will come prepared :)</p>
<p>I lived in Richardson my freshman year and while it is probably regarded as the worst freshman housing, it was wonderful. I loved my hall mates and we had a sense of community. The largest rooms are in Watts, the newest freshman dorm is Belk, and the other two are Richardson and Little. All of the housing is pretty nice.
As far as separate housing for Belk scholars, it doesn't exist and would be totally counterintuitive in this community. There are a lot of highly regarded scholarships but every student is equal upon arrival - people don't like to identify themselves as "special." Good Luck!</p>
<p>What is Little like?
My d just got assigned to it.</p>
<p>Thanks, CC’ers’!</p>
<p>Last year Little was a dorm that housed mostly sophomores and kids coming back in the spring from abroad. It’s about the same size as Richardson…it’s one of the smallest dorms on campus, I’m afraid. But size doesn’t matter, as they say!<br>
No matter where you live, it’s the people that matter, not the rooms. </p>
<p>I’ve been to parties in Little. The rooms look like the Belk rooms. They’re clean and everything…quality-wise they should be fine. It’s not Watts (huge and renovated last summer), but it’s bigger than double dorms at most colleges.</p>
<p>Thanks so much, Amp!</p>
<p>Cannon, Duke, and Tomlinson seem the best from what I’ve read on.</p>
<p>Cannon, Watts, Duke, and Tomlinson are definitely the best, but Watts is the only freshman dorm of the bunch, unfortunately. Tomlinson is almost all juniors, Cannon is almost all sophomores, and Duke is almost all seniors and themed halls.</p>