<p>My daughter was accepted IDP and will be going to Bard in the Fall. From what I can gather on the Bard site freshman dorm possibilities are Cruger, South, and Tewksbury. The site also only shows pics of single rooms. What is the likelihood she will get a single room and is one complex more likely than others for freshman? Thanks!</p>
<p>The toasters - listed as Alumni Houses on the website - are where many first years also end up. In our experience, most freshpeeps get double rooms. They are very convenient to the dining hall, student center and most classes. </p>
<p>Stone Row is also centrally located, but I’m not certain whether many first years get assigned there. </p>
<p>Tewksbury gives the “traditional dorm experience,” with rooms along a corridor and a bathroom at the end of the hall. Some folks like it, others do not. It does have a reputation, deserved or not, as the party dorm.</p>
<p>Thanks stradmom! Hopefully she’ll end up in the toasters and not Tewksbury. Just trying to figure out what she’ll need in terms of storage. Doesn’t look like there’s a lot of room for storage. I’m guessing one tall plastic cubby and some shoe storage. I wish there were some pictures of double rooms.</p>
<p>She will NOT get a single room unless she tries to go for handicap housing due to mental/social/physical issues. Bard has a pretty strict “everyone must have a roommate until Junior year” rule. Sophomores CAN get singles, but very rarely. An exception for a freshman having a single is if his or her roommate moves out, but that just means that someone else might be moved into their room anyway.</p>
<p>The dorm options are: Cruger (which I highly recommend, but I’m biased. I had a FANTASTIC experience living there freshman year and I liked that it was a little far away from the campus. Gave it a “going home” feeling and the rest of campus a “going to school” feeling), the Treehouses (cute 12-person dorms that are pretty nice, but small with thin walls), Tewks, the Toasters, Keen, Catskill & Hudson (the two trailers in North Campus, but don’t let that scare you off. They’re actually really nice and huge. Only main draw backs are that it’s the most far north of freshmen dorms and the walls are thin), and Williams (but I think they’re getting rid of it). South Hall is no longer a freshmen dorm and Stone Row is for upperclassmen and sophomores.</p>
<p>The dorms here are pretty nice (with the exception of Tewks, but it has personality and history. It seems like almost every famous person who went to Bard has some crazy story that happened in Tewks) and with relatively large rooms, even the triples (though not forced triples). It’s really nothing to worry about and, at least in my year, Bard does a pretty great job at pairing not only roommates but dorms. I was friends with almost everyone in Cruger which is, I believe, the 3rd largest dorm on campus after Robbins and Tewks. Very rarely will you hear of ~75 people getting along as a whole, especially 75 people living together.</p>
<p>Reviving this thread. My daughter is from the UK and has just finished school–received all her forms very late. Thus, she did not sign up for her room/roommate preferences. They have gone ahead and assigned her to a triple in Tewksbury. I have heard some not-good things about this dorm–and is a triple really 3 people crammed into a double…help! How do the bathrooms work–are they all unisex?</p>
<p>Tewksbury isn’t that bad of a dorm. It’s one of the older ones on campus, but most of the kids I know who lived there loved it. Some triples are converted doubles, but not all are. The triples I’ve seen in Tewks weren’t too cramped, but were a bit small, as most triples are.</p>
<p>All bathrooms are unisex, but every dorm that has multiple bathrooms/showers also has individual bathrooms for use for handicap purposes (though anyone can use them).</p>
<p>Don’t worry about it too much. South campus is a great area. Absolute worst case scenario, all students in triples have the option of having a student move out to another dorm, or if your daughter dislikes Tewks she can move out into an available room.</p>
<p>Thank you so much for your prompt reply!</p>