<p>I've heard that there are gender neutral dorms at UMD, College Park (meaning that girls and guys can share a dorm). Does anyone know which dorms allow this?</p>
<p>There’s one dorm that’s being set up. You had to sign up for it last year.
Also it’s not dorms like doubles, it’s suite style housing where guys would live in one bedroom and girls in the other.
Since suite style is almost never given to freshman, I doubt you could sign up for it as a freshman. </p>
<p>This would be a better thread for the college park board.</p>
<p>Also your profile says you’re only 16. I don’t think you would be allowed to live in mixed gender housing unless it was your brother or something. (I believe you had to be eighteen to sign up.)</p>
<p>Thanks. Which dorm is that?
Oops, I’m 17, not 16 and I’m going to college nxt year (hopefully to umd)</p>
<p>I don’t remember which building it was, but like I said I say the chances of getting it as a freshman are slim to none. Not only because of the boy/girl thing, mostly because of the suite style housing, which a lot of sophomores can’t even get into.</p>
<p>Just saying in general: mixed gender housing is great. If women are friends, rather than just “dates” and “hookups,” men seem to have more respect for them, and frankly, mixed-gender crowds are more interesting and lively to be in. The worst method for dorms I could think of is to have all men on one floor, all women on another, because then you’re not facilitating strong inter-gender relationships (you have to do a little extra work to get that), but the opposite gender is so close it’s easy to be “tempted.”</p>
<p>Yes, because the purpose of housing is social engineering. Freakin’ sociologists…</p>
<p>The college I’m going to be attending this fall has always been like this. Girls and guys always shared suites. I didn’t know this wasn’t common. :o</p>