<p>what colleges have nice dorms?? meaning the bathroom is inside your room.</p>
<p>do all the ivy league colleges and exclusive US top colleges have them?</p>
<p>UCLA has private bathrooms inside the rooms depending on what type of room one gets. In other cases there it's a bathroom shared between two rooms and in other cases it's a bathroom in the hall as is typical of many dorms.</p>
<p>It is all over the place. My niece did a summer program last year at Wellesley and the dorm was a total dump. My undergrad days were back East and lots of the Ivy leagues had/have pretty awful dorms. </p>
<p>In doing the college tours, we saw the good, the bad and the ugly. Of course, usually the freshman get the worst dorm. </p>
<p>However, some schools are putting the honors kids in nicer dorms as a way to lure them in.</p>
<p>Yale students mostly live in suites (although there are some exceptions) with a bathroom in the suite. The housing there is very nice, with many of the residential colleges having been recently renovated, and the rest scheduled to be done in upcoming years.</p>
<p>In recent years, many colleges have paid great attention to improving the freshman experience, including assigning freshmen to nice dorms.</p>
<p>This means that it's the sophomores who live in the worst dorms.</p>
<p>Washington University (St. Louis) has BEAUTIFUL dorms. On our tour the guide said they were knocking one old dorm down each year and building 24/7 to get new ones up. The one we saw was new, looked "tudorish" on the outside, hardwood floors in lobby, fireplace and big screen TV in lobby, kitchen for "fun cooking" (cookies, popcorn, etc.). Room had TWO bathrooms in room - one with sink and stool, one with sink and shower. The room had two "bedrooms", two students per room. The beds were higher than normal, but NOT bunked. Furniture was wood (not that awful metal you see in some dorms). Dorms have MAID SERVICE to clean bathrooms TWICE A WEEK!! As the guide said, "all they are missing is the mint on the pillow!" D was definitely impressed!</p>
<p>NYU's dorms largely have private bathrooms. NYU is an example of a school that gives the best dorms to first-years, hoping to up its retention rates. However, private bathrooms aren't necessarily a component of "nice" dorms - Columbia's freshman dorm Carman has more-or-less private bathrooms (shared by two doubles) and the building is quite an ugly sight.</p>
<p>Oklahoma State University has some regular dorms but a lot of really really nice new dorms with private bathrooms.</p>
<p>My D had a private room for three years- but a shared bathroom. That meant that she didn't have to clean it- the housekeeping staff did.( the housekeeper also made fresh coffee and cookies and gave rides to the airport when they missed the shuttle <B Kathy :) )
When she lived in Steele- sophmore and junior year- the bathrooms were pretty nice- lots of light and in a new building.
In fact when I was visiting her- I took a shower there- rather than in the hostel where I was staying- * there you didn't even want to look at the bath mat*
Senior year she lived in a two bedroom townhouse with two bathrooms - not really hers and his- but top floor and bottom floor- and eventually they got cleaned- somewhat ;)</p>
<p>UNC-CH has everything from extremely nice new dorms with huge rooms and big suite bathrooms to '60s awful in the process of remodel' to 'historic charm with high ceilings and hardwood floors'. Most newer dorms at any college are built with comfort in mind...wireless, big baths, larger rooms, floor kitchens with appliances, quiet zones, elevators, nice TV rooms, etc... My UNC freshman is in one of the new dorms with all these amenities...lucky girl.</p>
<p>I know UT-Austin and Texas A&M have extremely nice private dorms in addition to a wide variety of school-owned dorms. Some of the private dorms at A&M look like nice apartment complexes with resort style swimming pools, theatres and tanning beds. My husband frowned on those...he thinks college life should be 'just a little bit' about suffering. ;) Baylor freshman dorms are horrid, old, rickety sinks in each room and hall baths (and we didn't think too much of Waco either...no offense). Tulane...freshman facilities also not very impressive, but most were in the process of having their first floors remodeled when we visited.</p>
<p>Another "best kept secret" out there are the scholarship halls at the Unversity of Kansas - Lawrence. They have 11 of them, and just announced a $4 million dollar donation received to build another. They each house 50 girls or 50 boys. They cook their own meals there on premise. The newer "houses" have suite style rooms - bathroom in the room with 3 or 4 students per room. One requirement is that you have a job you do for the hall that requires 4-6 hours a week. You might cook lunch once a week, vacuum the halls, clean the dining room, etc. These living quarters are $1,500 - $2,000 a year CHEAPER than the dorms (thus the "scholarship" part). They have their own governing system within each hall and for the whole "scholarship hall" system and their own social system (each house has parties/celebrations they give that only "schol hall kids" are invited to. A really wonderful living situation.</p>
<p>Most students who have them seem to survive the 'bathroom down the hall' just fine though.</p>
<p>My son has a bathroom that's shared with one other dorm room with the only entry way through their rooms. Roanoke's dorms are large enough that he and roommate actually put their bed's in the other dorm room, bunked them and now they have four bed's in one room and use their old room as a lounge with a sofa, lounge chair, two desks and the requiste (sp?) tv and game station.</p>
<p>My daughter's college has a beautiful dorm. Actually most of the buildings on campus are very unique because they were designed by some famous architect - Bernard Maybeck. I think she shares the bathroom with one other room. Each of the rooms in her dorm is different, some have nooks or built in book cases. </p>
<p>It's not home, but it's not roughing it either.</p>
<p>wow...I didn't know so many things about dorms...I think a common bathroom down the hallway is pretty bad....</p>
<p>which schools have the "suite"?</p>
<p>peace:</p>
<p>It might be more 'which schools don't have suites'. There's a variety of configurations even within a particular college. Almost all of them have descriptions of their housing on their websites. I recommend browsing the websites of a few colleges you might be interested in and seeing what they have to offer.</p>
<p>If I'm not mistaken some of the Princeton Dorms are OLD. As in built in the 1800s?<br>
One local parent of a hpy accepted girl did the tour and refused to let her girl go live in one of the rooms.
I wonder what is the oldest currently used dorm age, and where? Oxford?</p>
<p>I wouldn't pick my school based on dorm bathrooms, nor do I consider where the bathroom is as the major criteria in deciding a dorm is nice. Too many other factors.</p>
<p>The WUSTL’s single dorms in suite are beautiful! The newest building has common rooms with plasma TV and leather couches. The new buildings look like nice hotels, and the old ones are huge but they will be soon gone.</p>
<p>One of the smallest dorm rooms we saw was at Penn State. I guess dorms often count for something if everything else is equal but I think they SHOULD be pretty low on the priority list.</p>
<p>I think I remember William and Mary has a really old dorm--maybe the oldest. I agree dorm room quality is not the highest point on the college/U quality list. But I suppose sharing bathrooms could be an issue for some.</p>