Dorms with single rooms :-)

College Search & Selection
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<p>On one of our many searches for mostly easternish, mostly LACish schools with a high "quality of life", I landed on a college where they have singles with private baths. woohoo! ;-) Now I can't remember which one it was.</p>

<p>I'm thinking with all the adjustments that go along with going away to college, not having to deal with sharing a small room with a stranger would be a good thing. At least for me, getting a single after my first semester at college was a relief! I wonder how on earth I'd do a search for colleges that offer a fair percentage of single rooms??</p>

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<p>There aren't many schools that <em>guarantee</em> singles to freshman, but a few come to mind where it is not unusual for frosh to get singles or singles within suites: Bryn Mawr, U Chicago, Haverford.</p>

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<p>Bryn Mawr's all female, right? Are you female, sushi? :)</p>

<p>But on PrincetonReview, it DOES seem most women's colleges have great dorms...</p>

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<p>I was going to suggest U Chicago, but Hanna beat me to it. Check out their housing site- the dorms are awesome. The site gives you room sizes and # of singles and doubles in each. Snell-Hitchcock is the best IMO, but the other dorms are really nice too.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.rh.uchicago.edu/hds/housing/halls/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.rh.uchicago.edu/hds/housing/halls/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Thanks for the responses! Maybe it was Haverford I'd previously come across, because I did like Haverford for other reasons as well. U of Chicago looks interesting. I wonder how Chicago rates for safety among large cities.</p>

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<p>About half of the freshman students at Columbia get a single--it's a little harder sophomore year, but still a possibility.</p>

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<p>i forgot the percentage, but some large majority of students at Williams get singles</p>

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<p>something like 70% of all the rooms at Pomona are singles. At most public universities, anyone (including freshman) can pay about an extra $1000 to get a single, if you register early enough.</p>

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<p>Most freshmen will have singles at Williams this fall, as one of the upperclass dorms is being converted to a freshman dorm. (No private baths, however: that's pretty luxurious!)</p>

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<p>Cornell has quite a lot of singles for freshmen, but they cost $800 per year more than the rate for doubles.</p>

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<p>after freshman year, all students at connecticut college get a single.</p>