<p>Can we get some updated perspectives on what each dorm hall is like in order to help future students decide where the heck we are going to live?</p>
<p>Particularly these dorm halls:
Warren Towers
The Towers
West Campus - Claflin, Rich, and Sleeper Halls
Myles Standish Hall & Myles Annex
Danielson
Kilachand (is this only for honors students by the way?)</p>
<p>And whatever other dorms there may be.</p>
<p>I’d really appreciate some insight here.</p>
<p>I’m a high school senior and I was doing a lot of research on this subject; there are tons of past threads about this topic and you can read through those to find some answers. I do know thay Kilachand is NOT just for honours students - there is regular housing and also the Writer’s Corridor on one of the floors (in which I am particularly intetested). Sorry I couldn’t give more advice!</p>
<p>EDIT: This probably doesn’t matter to you, but I thought I should mention that I just read that there’s a specialty housing group for engineers on one of the Kilachand floors.</p>
<p>If you’re looking to meet the most people, Warren or West all the way. They’re both typical freshman dorms, but since most people are new, you’re likely to make a lot of friends. It can be loud at times, but you get used to it! I lived in Warren my freshman year and some of my best friends are still from there! Live on a speciality floor if you can. </p>
<p>You don’t want to live in Danielson as a freshman. It’s pretty far from campus. A lot of students who come to study abroad at BU also live there (not that that’s a bad thing, but just fewer freshmen). </p>
<p>Towers and Kilachand (formerly known as Shelton) are fine too, just smaller and quieter. Kilachand has more suite style rooms. Towers is all same sex floors. </p>
<p>Myles is alright. I don’t know too much about it other than the rooms have a weird layout. </p>
<p>@LAMuniv yeah I just wanted more recent opinions on these dorms but thank you. I too am interested in the writer’s corridor in Kilachand which is why I asked. I like Kilachand because they’re suites that you only share a bathroom with your roommate but it’s also $1000 more a year than a standard double room I believe. Worth it?</p>
<p>@shiningstar91 Thank you for your response. I read that warren towers and west campus were traditionally freshman dorms but I’m iffy about those because they are all communal bathrooms, right? Are all the west campus dorms the same or is one better than the other two?</p>
<p>I think I’m going to go for it; $1000 more is worth it, I believe, for the better rooms and the general “experience.” Do you happen to know how competitive “admission” is for the Writer’s Corridor? Or if we have to submit a writing sample? (I read somewhere that we did, but I also read on the specialty housing sight that incoming freshmen need only indicate their interest to be admitted to that housing.)</p>
<p>I’m not sure about submitting a writing sample. I’ve heard that but I don’t know if it applies for freshmen. </p>
<p>If you want to live there, go for it! I don’t know much about it but I’ve heard it’s a fun experience and may possibly be haunted. Too bad you’re missing the dining hall that used to be there 
great study lounge on the top floor though. </p>
<p>And yes, Warren and West have communal bathrooms. However they are cleaned 5x/week. The downside of living in a suite is that you’ll have to clean your own bathroom, which means if you have roommates who don’t clean very often, it can get gross. </p>
<p>The internet says the Writer’s Corridor is haunted with the ghost of a playwright haha. Cool.</p>
<p>@shiningstar91 For the communal bathrooms at Warren and West, are there shower stalls or is it just a curtain? You raised a good point with the cleaning your own bathrooms thing…</p>
<p>Also how much bigger are the rooms in Kilachand than West and Warren? I can’t seem to find the floor plan for Kilachand :(</p>
<p>@Anderr123 I contacted BU housing, and here is the relevant part of their response (one of the questions I asked was about the writing sample and how competitive admission is): “Freshmen do not need to complete applications for specialty floor. You can just indicate your interest on your Housing Interests Survey. If there are spaces available, we will try to place interested people there, but there are no guarantees.”</p>
<p>@LAMuniv that’s awesome, I’m seriously considering it now. I just have to see if my parents are willing to pay the extra money for it >_< thanks for sharing the info!</p>
<p>No problem! :)</p>
<p>In the communal bathrooms, there are separate bathroom stalls with doors and then separate showers. In my bathroom we had doors!</p>