<p>Does anyone know which frosh dorms are best, i.e. most recently renovated, and if freshman may request residences? Thanks.</p>
<p>Hi Triad,
in the past three years, students have not been able to request particular dorms. Some students I believe try to request roommates if they get to know students ahead of time (I don’t know if that always works out) and they also consider medical considerations. All students can choose a preference co-ed by room or co-ed by floor.
I lived in an unrenovated dorm my first year but it wasn’t something that really took a lot of my attention when I lived there.
I know in Massell Quad, Usen, Deroy and Renfield have been recently renovated, while Shapiro hasn’t been. In North, I believe definitely Sheffres and I think Cable has been renovated. The one thing I remember slightly bothering me about North when one of the dorms was an option for rising sophomore was that only 2 out of the 4 buildings had laundry rooms, whereas in Massell all the dorms have laundry rooms.</p>
<p>Does single sex floor means the whole dorm building is single sex?</p>
<p>It means that floor is single sex, whereas probably the floors above and below you are the other gender.</p>
<p>Gotcha. Thanks.
Are there gyms in some of the dorms?</p>
<p>Not in freshmen dorms, but in one of the sophomore dorms close to Massell Quad, a first year quad, and in the Village. The Village is Upperclassmen housing for the fall, midyear firstyear students will be living there in the spring. Everyone has access to both areas and neither those gyms nor the actual gyms are really that far away from the rest of the campus, it’s all manageable distances.</p>
<p>Are all dorm rooms doubles/triples?</p>
<p>All freshmen dorms are in most cases doubles or triples. There are singles in freshman dorms but it depends on the size of the freshman class and how the housing lottery for upperclass students works out as to who ends up in those singles.</p>
<p>I’m in a lofted triple, aka. forced triple, because there are just so many freshman this year.</p>