<p>I know its still early, but which dorms can freshman request to live in?</p>
<p>Request the modern dorms. The older dorms are dark and just sort of scare me because they are riot proof. THe only good thing about the older dorms is it fosters a lost closer identity with the members of your floor.</p>
<p>yeah, i stayed in umrath when i visited. i didn't like that it was subfree. but i wanted to know the names of the freshman buildings, if we can request by name that is</p>
<p>I perfer the older dorms, at least for freshman year. </p>
<p>You'll have more fun in them. You can throw parties in then and not worry about scratching up the walls, floors, etc. When you leave for the summer you just splash a little paint on any of the walls that are stainted, burned, etc. </p>
<p>The newer dorms are all, nice, clean and corporate-like. Thin plaster-board walls to break, carpets to stain, etc. They just don't feel homey. Also, the walls are really thin. You can hear EVERYTHING that goes on in the whole suite. Plus the walls aren't the normal plaster-board like in your house, they are this thin, card-board like, and don't "forget" trauma like cement walls. Plus I think it easier to steal cable in the old dorms (Just unscrew the metal cylinder).</p>
<p>In a lot of case, you'll be extremely close with your freshman floor. When in the older dorms, the community is just stronger. After freshman year, you've got friends, so you can live in the more anymous dorms or off-campus. </p>
<p>Park-Mudd is the best of both worlds. It is all solid cement walls, but more nicely done. Great windows in the common rooms. Plus the bed-rooms are off-set from the common room, which means you can party away without distrubing your sleeping-deprived pre-med roommate. When I was there, this wasn't a freshman dorm, but maybe things have changed.</p>
<p>--mlp</p>
<p>Disclosure: I'm a WashU alum class of '01</p>
<p>What are the names of the old dorms that are not sub free?</p>
<p>Here are all of the older dorms and links so their sites. Not sure which ones are sub-free, that should be in your packet's somewhere.</p>
<p>Dauten, Rutlidge, Shandleing
<a href="http://reslife.wustl.edu/%7Ejkl/gallery.html%5B/url%5D">http://reslife.wustl.edu/~jkl/gallery.html</a></p>
<p>Hitzenman, Hurd, Myers
<a href="http://hig.wustl.edu/Halls/Myers.htm%5B/url%5D">http://hig.wustl.edu/Halls/Myers.htm</a></p>
<p>Lee, Beumont
<a href="http://lb.wustl.edu/ra.html%5B/url%5D">http://lb.wustl.edu/ra.html</a></p>
<p>Ligget, Koening
<a href="http://liggettkoenig.wustl.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://liggettkoenig.wustl.edu/</a></p>
<p>Ruby and Umrath
<a href="http://ru.wustl.edu/index2.htm%5B/url%5D">http://ru.wustl.edu/index2.htm</a></p>
<p>Hey. I am a freshman at WashU. Beaumont (where I live) is a sub free building. No other buildings are sub-free, but some have sub-free floors. I don't know if those floors change every year or stay the same. Also, so you know, you can't request a specific building, so for the first year you are stuck wherever you get placed. Also, Ligget or Koenig, I can't remember which, is being torn down this year so it won't be an option for next year.</p>
<p>thank you, that was the answer i was looking for :)</p>
<p>i was wondering if they were at all lenient with the rule that freshmen whose parents don't live within 25 miles from the school have to spend the first yr in dorms...because I'd much rather live in my own apartment if theyre asking 10 thousand...you could be paying off a mortgage fpr that much and I prefer my own place to a dorm anyway</p>
<p>NO- all freshmen MUST live on campus. Sorry</p>
<p>Whats the bathroom situation? Like in which dorms do you have to share with the entire floor and stuff?</p>
<p>Old dorms have 2 common bathroom per floor (one for males, one for females). New dorms have a private bathroom shared between two suites.</p>
<p>when u say suite...does that mean 2 people in one same room? or are they two rooms within a suite...but anyhow its 4 people sharing one bathroom right?</p>
<p>2 rooms with 2 people in each share 1 bathroom...so, yes, 4 people to a bathroom</p>
<p>i just visited wash u and here is some things i learned comparing old and new dorms... [in no particular order]</p>
<p>old dorms [which my tour guide preferred]...
*bathrooms cleaned everyday
*more social
*tile floor
*people stand in the halls to socialize</p>
<p>new dorms [i saw this one]...
*2 rooms/ 1 bathroom [if i remember correctly]
*less social (quieter)
*carpeted (and not the fluffy kind)
*bathrooms cleaned 2-3 times a week
*looked very new, pretty good rooms size, nice common area downstairs</p>
<p>Are both the old and the new dorms coed?</p>
<p>yes, everything is coed, just no mixed-sex roommates</p>
<p>if anyone was wondering, park-mudd are still for sophomores and up only, otherwise i would definitely want a suite.</p>
<p>I'm still a little confused...Sorry, but what are the new dorms for freshman?</p>
<p>new dorms for freshmen:
Danforth, Lien, Forsyth, and the new building in Liggett/Koenig will have mostly freshman floors. Danforth 2 (just the one floor) is substance free. Lien 1 is substance free. Forsyth 1 is substance free.</p>
<p>old dorms for freshmen:
Beaumont (all sub-free), Lee (best freshman dorm on campus), Umrath, Rubelmann, and one in Liggett/Koenig--the one not being torn down.</p>
<p>go old dorms. buy a carpet for your room and wear shower shoes and you'll never notice the difference. except for the fact that you'll be happier.</p>
<p>thanks alot for that list, ive been trying to sort through other threads and bits of info to get it...</p>