<p>How do dorms work for Exeter 9th graders?
Do you have any choice as a 9th grader?
Which are the "best"?
Have the most singles? Doubles? Biggest rooms?
Can you request a single?<br>
Who is the nicest resident family and which dorm do they live in?
Do they place all the jocks in one dorm? math whizzes in another dorm? ect...</p>
<p>Any info appreciated?</p>
<p>How do dorms work for Exeter 9th graders?
It’s random as far as I can tell</p>
<p>Do you have any choice as a 9th grader?
I think you can request, but they don’t always fulfill them. I wouldn’t request just based on what you hear before you attend Exeter, the school is pretty good at placing kids.</p>
<p>Which are the “best”?
Umm…</p>
<p>Can you request a single?
You can try</p>
<p>Do they place all the jocks in one dorm? math whizzes in another dorm? ect…
I doubt the school does this on purpose, but a few dorms do end up having the most ____ people, and thus reputations like the “jock” dorm. Probably also because people will move dorms after having been at Exeter and students might want to be in the same dorm with their friends/teammates.</p>
<p>Abbot is my favorite. I spent the summer with a few guys from Abbot and they were all the coolest guys that I have ever met.
9th graders are spread through the dorms, but they are not put in the “cottages”. Cottages are Uppers(juniors) only. I think that most Cottages are singles, and most dorms are doubles. The biggest rooms were actually like 12 by 10(around the size of my room at home, so plenty of space). </p>
<p>My friends told me that each dorm really makes their own stereotype… Someone gave the example of an athletic dorm. Kids entered as really diverse freshmen… But they came out with general traits. My friend is in Abbot and he runs cross country and does water polo. He started those sports because of his Abbot friends. He also tried to learn break dancing, because they have 3 Koreans that break dance.</p>
<p>From my visit it seemed that cilly (sp?)…was the "jock dorm. It’s all singles and held most the basketball players. It’s also closest to gym.</p>
<p>Some dorms have all or nearly all singles; others have a lot of doubles. This is true of both brick dorms and houses (houses do have doubles). Preps are a bit more likely to end up in doubles because returning students take all or most of the singles (but, again, in dorms like Cilley, everyone including preps is in a single). Size of rooms can vary dramatically even within the same dorm. There are a couple of dorms consistently known as jock dorms; other reputations keep changing over time. There are “nice” resident families in just about every dorm. I really don’t think there’s any such thing as a “bad” dorm; most kids end up loving whatever dorm they’re placed in. I would recommend letting the Deans place you. You can change dorms in your second year if you so desire.</p>
<p>thanks peateacher!
Do the Deans look at applications to place kids in dorms or is there a questionaire or something?<br>
With a relatively shy kid do you recommend a double to help socialize or a single so they can have their space to decompress at the end of the day?</p>
<p>Thanks for your comments on Abbot Hall, italianboarder. My son is headed there in a few weeks! Will your friends still be in Abbot or have they already graduated?!</p>