UAlabama Honors (28+ on the ACT, 32+ for full tuition scholarship) is single sex by suite.
Interesting conversation, but it does not appear that the OP has been back since starting this thread.
Oh, and duh, one post and gone. Pot-stirring!
Iâm trying my best not to be judgmental, but, if the question is, âWhat colleges offer generous financial aid, meet 100% need AND have single-sex dorms?â, the list gets pretty meagre.
The shower stalls of my day were not those that had any kind of outside private chamber for dressing/undressing. You got in the shower, reached out and hung your robe/towel/clothing on a hook outside. You easily could have âflashedâ others. Actually my gym is like that too.
This came up recently in another thread, so I looked up about 8 schools in my state (yeah, I had a lot of time on my hands that day). All of the âbigâ publics in my state have at least one single gender dorm, some more than one. I also noticed that there are plenty of single sex private dorms in these college towns. All of the larger private schools also have at least one single sex dorm on campus as well. They are certainly outnumbered by the coed dorms, but they are still present for those that prefer this accommodation. I live in Texas, BTW.
I donât think there is a college or university that doesnât have at least two single sex dorms or house (in the case of small LACs,) so the OP should have no problem when looking for colleges for her student.
I lived in a huge dorm my Freshman year(1974) at UColorado that was coed by room. There were also dorms that were coed by floor or by wing and single sex dorms.
In my dorm we had very large ( the kind with ten sinks, maybe 8 shower stalls) single sex bathrooms but everyone just used the bathroom nearest their room.
Gender neutral rooms are also becoming quite common but only for upperclassmen who choose to live in one. At Bates ( where S went) every room is now designated gender neutral except rooms designated for freshman and those in the two single sex houses.
I also went to a school, University of Oregon in the late eighties, where we had co-ed floors. We had boys on our floor all hours of the day and night, we had many MANY of the kids hooking up and it was not only extremely distracting from getting school work done, but it also made it so the girls never had a chance to have real down time away from boys and sexual tension etc. If other parents and their kid want to share bathrooms and floors or rooms whatever, that is their choice. But my daughter and I both agree that is not the environment she wants. Unfortunately we are not religious so a religious school is not really on our radar. But even those that I have looked into still seem to have a lot of coed living arrangements. Hope that helps answer your question. And thanks so much to all the folks who have answered my question!!
Thanks for being the one to say that. I imagine many of us were thinking the same thing. 
There is certainly an interesting phenomena of people being very defensive about their history and their choices in college. I imagine that this would be the case any time you discuss sex, which this post was not about from my perspective, but so interesting that so many people have felt the need to tell us about their sexual experiences in college.
I didnât feel the issue was sexual activity either. For me itâs about privacy, comfort level, peeping toms/thomasinas, and I hadnât even thought about cell phone cams.
My D is OK with her setup. When we started our college search I hadnât realized the extent of coed everything either, but luckily found out early enough to get used to the idea.
I havenât seen anybody on this thread discuss their sexual experiences in college. A few have mentioned sex happening (or not) in the dorms they lived in.
Semantics.
A question related to privacy, instead of being answered, was turned into a referendum on OPâs parenting practices, prudity, sexual activity at college, etc., instead of just answering the Q.
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Huh!?! 
I can understand your discomfort with this. But at a non-religious college where anyone can have visitors at any time, the atmosphere in a single-sex dorm isnât necessarily different.
Perhaps the solution isnât single-sex dorms but suite-style dorms. Suites for freshmen are almost always single-sex. And depending on the young people living there, a suite might well be a refuge from opposite-sex visitors and sexual tension.
On the other hand, depending on the suite-mates, maybe it wouldnât be. A long time ago, I lived in a suite in an all-womenâs dorm. A male friend of one of my roommates often stopped by late at night because our dorm was on his way from where he studied to where he lived. He would hang around for a while to chat and then leave. At the time when he would show up, I was usually getting ready for bed, so I would be wearing a bathrobe and drying my hair with a towel. One day he ran into me in the student union. His first comment was âSo thatâs what you look like with your clothes on.â
Itâs a coed world. So coed dorms make sense IMO.
Thank you! It has been an education in how vehemently people feel about coed dorms. I have been surprised too by how angry my question made people.
I think a suite setup is worth considering as well. At my Dâs school the dorm where most of the freshmen are has single-sex halls. She is in different dormâin a themed living community on a coed floor. But the rooms are suite style so she shares a bathroom with 3 other girls.
My college was single sex and old-fashioned - no guys allowed on the halls AT ALL except for a couple of open houses each year. I really liked knowing I could wear my PJs or nightgown to go to the bathroom or just hang out. Even that dorm had to modernize, though - now guys are allowed every day, up to a certain time of night.
I didnât think it was about sex either, and I agree different people have different comfort levels. If the OP and D want a single sex dorm that is their choice.
OP - as I mentioned before, having a female only dorm isnât necessarily going to keep the boys from being around at all hours. It may help cut it down, but at most schools they are still going to be there even if they donât have rooms there. You may want to think suite style and make sure she has roommates with similar ideals.
My Sâs school does not have any single sex dorms. Dorms are either suite style living (a better choice for someone looking for more privacy) or the traditional dorm style. In the traditional style (bathroom down the hall) they have male only, female only and gender neutral bathrooms.
âI donât think there is a college or university that doesnât have at least two single sex dorms or houseâ
There are many schools with 100% co-ed housing. Harvard and Yale, for example. If a single-sex dorm is important to a student, they need to research each school individually to make sure it is available.