<p>Does anyone know which one of the following schools has the best dorms???</p>
<p>I was fortunate to be accepted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Dartmouth, Stanford, and Williams.</p>
<p>As far as the quality of academics, I'm pretty sure there's not much of a difference between those places.</p>
<p>In what capacity? Spaciousness, proximity, sense of community, etc.? Also, I would rather at Harvard live in Adams (my own bias) as opposed to Cabot or at Yale be in Timothy Dwight compared to Morse, but those are random assignments as are dorm assignments in general. So even if one college has considerably good housing (based on whatever criteria you set out) you could get the worst of the bunch and then the expectation of good housing is all for nought.</p>
<p>Williams and Harvard are both known for having comfortable, capacious, and “character-filled” dorms. But, as Tonyt said, a lot depends on which dorm you end up living in.</p>
<p>Just to go further with this. I had previously read in Princeton Review that Harvard’s dorm were “like palaces” yet when I was reading the CC Harvard Parents thread they really sounded like they were anything but. There were complaints about very small rooms etc. Of course this is not why D should or should not attend Harvard but I want to make sure that her “home” is comfortable.</p>
<p>If a room is small, does Harvard allow lofts to be built, etc? S is finishing up at Tufts and it was not allowed there. 25+ years ago when I went to Duke, the guys there all lofted their rooms.</p>
<p>I was thinking in terms of spaciousness. I know it’s all by chance and I may end up in the worst dorm. However, for which school am I least likely to end up in a crappy dorm (small, community bathrooms)?</p>
<p>**As far as the quality of academics, I’m pretty sure there’s not much of a difference between those places. **
Yes, there is a difference. The difference isn’t such that you can say one school is outright better than another (they all are excellent!), but as a current student at Harvard with a brother attending Williams, I can tell you that academics are VERY different at the two schools.</p>
<p>what are dorms like?
Harvard dorms are nice enough that they shouldn’t keep you from coming to Harvard. They can be palatial, they can be small, but they’re all more than adequate.</p>
<p>As a parent, I was not impressed with dorms at Harvard relative to the schools we had visited on the list: Williams and Dartmouth. Of course this may be due to the fact that my d ended up in one of those newer cinder block buildings.</p>
<p>my son LOVES Matthews where he is living now as a freshman. We all loved the charm and character and history that these dorms have. I love that all the freshmen live in the yard</p>