<p>can anyone tell me what the names for the freshman housing on the wustl cmapus are? and are they generally nice? i dunno ive heard that in general all freshman dorms are really bad and the upperclassmen dorms are the nice ones</p>
<p>when i visted wustl, i was told that freshman could either live in suite style dorms (which are quite nice) or community dorms. The upside is that the suite style dorms are new and you only have to share a bathroom with one other room, but they don't have as much of a social aspecty. The community dorms have one bathroom per gender on each floor, but it is also a lot easier to meet people. From what i saw, freshman dorms at wustl are a lot nicer than any other dorms i have seen at other colleges.</p>
<p>bump...does anyone know what all the freshman residential halls or w/e are called so i can check them out on the wustl website? thanks</p>
<p>Rubelmann, Umrath, Beaumont, Lee, Danforth, University House are the ones I recall. There may be others.</p>
<p>No suites for freshmen--that will be during sophomore year. The freshmen dorms area all very nice...</p>
<p>No suites for freshmen--that will be during sophomore year. The freshmen dorms area all very nice...</p>
<p>The freshman halls are categorized in two ways -- traditional and modern -- basically old dorms and new dorms. All the dorms are nice. The old dorms are known for having a more social atmosphere because they feels more like a dorm than the new dorms -- which at times can feel like a hotel.</p>
<p>Traditional dorms: Lee/Beaumont, Rubelmann/Umrath, Liggett(which will be torn down this year to be replaced with a new Liggett)</p>
<p>Modern: Koenig, Forsyth, Lien</p>
<p>Danforth is a modern dorm too.</p>
<p>When i visited I was told freshman could have the suite-like dorms with the shared batroom between two rooms. If i am wrong than i was given false information</p>
<p>I think what that person meant was the modern dorms in which 2 rooms share a bathroom. Suites (only available to upperclassman) have a common room and a bathroom.</p>
<p>My son was in University House freshman year - it is an all suite dorm and most of the students were freshman. The suites in that dorm do not have a common room - they had 4 singles in a row with two bathrooms and a big hall that connected all the rooms.</p>
<p>University House doesn't exist anymore. It is now called Eliot and is sophomore only. It is the only suite housing that doesn't have common rooms (I think). Last year is was half-freshman and half-sophomore</p>
<p>I'm living in Umrath currently, and absolutely love it. Even though the rooms may be a bit smaller than the new dorms, they're big enough, and also aren't as narrow. Having communal bathrooms isn't bad at all, and the atmosphere is extremely social due to the fact that your door opens right onto the hallway.</p>
<p>There is an article in the current Student Life outllining the timeline for new dorm construction that will eventually replace all freshman dorms.</p>
<p>Here is an excerpt:</p>
<p>A tentative plan has been proposed for the destruction and replacement of the freshman dorms that will remain after Liggett has been torn down this summer.
The schedule for destruction, which is subject to change, would begin with Beaumont in fall 2007, followed by Lee, Umrath and Rubelmann in fall 2008, 2009 and 2010 respectively, said Jim Severine, associate director and manager of building services for Residential Life. By fall 2011, all of these dormitories would be replaced.
Whether these new residential colleges would be connected like the new Liggett and Koenig residence halls or remain separated is yet to be decided, said Carroll.
Although the designs for the new dormitories on the South 40 are still in their early stages, they will provide facilities superior to those of the old dorms, according to Severine.
"Overall, students have been really pleased with the designs that have been presented to them," said Severine. "Things they were commenting on [that they wanted in the new dorms] were better lighting in rooms and increased study space. They've liked the bathroom layouts, and the double and triple spaces."
The larger triple rooms in the new dorms will be less cramped than those in the older freshman dorms, said Severine.
"Triple spaces [in the new dorms] will be much more accommodating," said Severine. "They are specifically designed for three students, where sometimes [in the old dorms] you get the situation where another bed was shoved in there."
Freshman Jamie Hanley, who lives in Liggett, will be disappointed to see her current home go.
"It's sad, because a lot of other freshmen will be able to go back to their dorms with memories and we won't have that," said Hanley. "There are lots of things about the old dorms people really like and the fact that we're getting rid of them is really upsetting, but there are lots of things people like about the new dorms, too."
Despite students' sentimental attachment to their freshman dorms, it is necessary to replace them, said Carroll.
"These dorms were built in late '50s, and they really have been well maintained, and students become very attached to where they live regardless of whether it's new or old," said Carroll. "But the point is that some of the behind-the-scenes things are really antiquated....They were built at a time when campuses were building what they could afford, but they've served us well. We looked at them to see if we could use existing buildings and rearrange them, but found there wasn't really any way to go about it."</p>
<p>Just as an update, the new Ligget will be an upperclassmen dorm, and Eliot will be a freshmen dorm once again for the upcoming year.</p>
<p>According to the friendly people at Reslife, Eliot(University House) will be a freshman dorm next year too.</p>