<p>My son graduated from Eastman in 2006. At that time, the bathrooms were still single sex. However, the layout of the dorm is such that neither gender has to go to another floor to use a bathroom. My other 2 attended schools with coed bathrooms, mainly because the dorms only have one bathroom per floor or section. It is not a big deal. The students are respectful of each other.</p>
<p>I hate sharing a bathroom with my sons, and I’m related to them! I guess when we’re in our teens and twenties, we fight for the right to do something, and then when we’re in our 40s and 50s we pay big bucks so we don’t have to.</p>
<p>The idea of sharing a bathroom with college boys is not the least appealing to me, and I know my D (who did have to share with her brothers) agrees.</p>
<p>Love it Binx, love it!! I have 2 sons and feel the same way!!
My D will be at CIM and the music students have their own building, apart from the CW dorms. The bottom floor is all of the common space, the 2nd floor is all male, the 3rd is all female and the 4th is co-ed (with seperate bathrooms). D firmly requested, having had 2 brother, one older and one younger, to live on the all girls floor! I had occasion to speak to the man who handles the housing arrangements and he told me that if he gets a young man who says that “(he) will only live on a co-ed floor”, that boy lands on the single-sex floor!! Too eager means trouble, according to his years of experience! We were in the dorm this past weekend,after all the kids had moved out and just a few were back, camping out before graduation, and I must say that ALL of the kids were less than neat- looked like a full parade had marched up and down, in and out, and included elephants!</p>
<p>You can probably scope out the campus politics by checking to see what student groups are there. If there is a chapter of the SSDP (students for sensible drug policy)–etc.! I’m thinking of Brown where I have one child. But, even there, I know someone whose daughter is on the equestrian team, never has attended a naked party, and doesn’t know why Brown has a such a reputation for “anything goes”.</p>
<p>You definitely have to visit for yourself when trying to pick the political environment you are looking for.</p>