After visiting the WUSTL res life website, I cannot find a definitive answer to which halls/building freshmen live in. I would like to learn more information about specific buildings to find floor plans or more pictures of the dorm rooms. Thank you!
I know Umrath is a big one for freshman. I believe Lien is too. You are pretty much looking at any 2 person (a few 3) per room. The 4 person suites will usually be for sophomores.
It depends on what you want and the luck of the draw. My son is a freshman and has a single in a suite of 4.
@Hamurtle - which dorm did your son stay in? My daughter is interested in a single but as part of a suite. She needs her alone time but wants to have a group to hang with. I wasn’t sure if that was a realistic option for freshman or only available mostly to upper classmen. Thanks!
@colscook my son is in Eliot A. There are suites of 4 singles although there are also doubles. It’s also considered the best of the modern dorms on the South 40.
@Hamurtle Really? Usually USoFo is considered the nicest with Eliot as a close second 
Yes, Eliot is where to be if you want singles as a freshman. I currently live in a Danforth double but am looking to move to a singles suite next year. There are more upperclassmen rooms with this configuration, but freshman and upperclassmen housing aren’t directly competitive, so you don’t have to worry about trying to get an edge over an existing student.
@Hamurtle and @JemmaSimmons - Thanks for your responses! We looked through the housing choices last week and Eliot was her top choice but it is nice to hear from others who are familiar with the dorms. She stayed in Lein this summer and really liked it but would prefer a single. Tell me though, is there any advantage in housing choices to those students who were accepted ED? I know some schools rate you up in the housing lottery based on when you turned in your acceptance. Is that the case with Wash U?
@colscook no advantage ED or RD regarding freshman housing.
@JemmaSimmons Sorry but I’m a little confused. Online it say Eliot is either 2 or 4 person suites, in either case with their being one private bathroom per suite. So it looks like either 2 or 4 people have their own private room space but with the same door to the hallway and a shared bathroom. It doesn;t say anything about there being “singles” in Eliot. What is a single and how does it differ from what I am describing"
Ah okay! So I use the word single to describe how many beds there are per room. So the suite I am currently in is a four person double; there are four people in two rooms connected by a bathroom. Thus, there are two people per bedroom and called a double.
A single, for example, is when there are four people in four rooms sharing a bathroom/hallway/common area. Thus, there is one person per bedroom and called a single.