<p>Most of the dorms here are similarly well-equipped, but it’s often pretty easy to distinguish between dorms that have recently been renovated and those that have not. NO dorms on campus have wireless internet, with the exception of the common rooms of certain, recently renovated dorms. This is for the specific reason of making FUN (distracting) things like gaming harder or at the very least less convenient - it’s a give and take. Our rooms don’t have wireless, but our internet doesn’t shut off at night like particular rival schools. Kids find ways to get around lack of wireless though - I have a Mac and can pretty easily just share my ethernet connection wirelessly. That makes gaming with consoles possible, but some people are prone to piggybacking off of others’ connections. Again, give and take.</p>
<p>Nice dorms… Hmm. There are a lot of them. Fuess has a great reputation - it’s supposed to be a bit of a bro’s dorm but I have a bunch of really cool friends who live there. Foxcroft has a good reputation and I spend occasional weekend nights there. Then, of course, there are all of the smaller dorms. Those are fun and feel more like houses than anything else. As for bad dorms, there are none I’d tell you to avoid - because, in the end, it only matters who lives in the dorms. Believe me when I say that whether or not a common room has a TV and pool table in it means NOTHING at all. Why? Because you’ll never have the time to use them, anyway.</p>
<p>Day students are completely integrated (if not even more popular than boarders - they have cars and can drive you places!!!) and really the only difference between day students and boarders is that day students don’t sleep at school. However, the majority of day students I know spend most of their waking hours at Andover. Many eat all three meals here and then stay until boarders’ sign in - 10 on weekdays, 11:30 on weekends.</p>
<p>There’s nothing much specifically for day students with the exception of the occasional day family receptions and ice cream socials - as I see it this helps to keep day students and boarders desegregated. However, all day students here have the option of being a boarder for one term of their time here. I don’t know of any other schools that offer that to their day students. That way, everyone here has the possibility of sharing the same type of experience.</p>
<p>Wait, I never knew that you could be a boarder for one term. </p>
<p>Could it be your first term of your first year there? (I am applying as a lower)</p>
<p>because right now I don’t have my license, but I am 15 1/2 so I can do driver’s ed next year like first term and then I could save up for a car.</p>
<p>Otherwise my mom would have to drive me part of the first year.</p>
<p>I don’t know if you could be a boarder for your first term of your first year, but I’d guess you cannot - that’s a pretty serious bonding time for boarders and day students alike when you learn all about the inner workings of the school. In fact, I don’t know if freshmen are allowed to spend a term on campus - it may be only for the other grades.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the info Tom, so if I understood wrightly lets say I was assigned to Foxcroft, I could then time to time on a weekend go and sleep in Fuess for the night. Sounds really good =D oh and I didn’t know online gaming was allowed at Andover , do you guys play Mw2 Lol ? And do you have time to play on your consoles ? Anyways thanks again .</p>
<p>Yes, at least in upperclassman dorms, game consoles are allowed. However, they are supposed to be shut off after 8PM on weeknights for study hours. I don’t actually have one, but two guys in my hall have XBoxes and one has a PS3. Two have projectors. Kids do also have time to use them, but that’s because they work extra hard to get their work done. I don’t know if freshmen are allowed to have game consoles in their freshman dorms, though, as I assume you’d be coming in as a freshman.</p>
<p>Yes, if after freshman year you were assigned (or, more like, chose) to live in Foxcroft, you would be allowed to have overnights in other dorms provided you and the friends of yours living in the other dorms fill out permissions. Don’t plan on doing it too often, though, permissions can get really obnoxious</p>
<p>Ohh cool ,yeah sounds really reasonable the times and all that stuff. Thanks again for the info. Ughh I just read your thread about too many applications, it put me right off.</p>
<p>No you are lucky you did not, TomTheCat posted another thread talking about how Andover had 1000 more applicants than last year and so the admissions rate is most likely to drop drastically. Meaning acceptance to Andover is going to be relatively tough.</p>
<p>Sorry Mate but Andover is an amazing school, sure it may be overrated time to time but that laid back but concentrated feeling, it’s unique and the entire Andover community is nice, so I genuinely like Andover and most people do. I know of Shanwnigan Lake School and yes it is a very good school but please don’t bad mouth Andover because it truly is an amazing school.</p>