<p>Probably answered somewhere on here but didnt wanna bother looking...Are the bathrooms in the dorms individual bathrooms or are they bathrooms that are for more than one person, when i visited i only saw one dorm building where the bathrooms were individual bathrooms which is nice, wondering if its like that all around the campus or is that just that dorm.</p>
<p>And if anyone knows what the all freshman dorm's bathrooms are like that would be great thanks.</p>
<p>^it varies from dorm to dorm. tilton (all freshman), bush, and south (the one they probably showed you) have single bathrooms, most of the others have bigger ones.</p>
<p>houston and hill, the other freshman dorms, have shared bathrooms.</p>
<p>the reslife site has individual discriptions of each dorm.</p>
<p>thank you that was a big help.</p>
<p>Be careful with the ResLife website though. Right now it seems to be updated, but when I got my housing assignment the summer before freshman year, it said South Hall 3rd floor. When I checked ResLife, it said that the 3rd floor of South was Healthy Living. I stressed for a while wondering if I'd be on a floor with a bunch of people who just want quiet and study-time, but when I got there I found that the 3rd floor of South wasn't Healthy Living at all. Basically don't believe EVERYTHING, b/c things are changing around campus all the time and sometimes the websites aren't updated quickly enough to reflect that.</p>
<p>Case in point: "Chinese House - NEW for Fall 2004". Sophia Gordon isn't even on the site, and people have already lived in that palace for a year haha</p>
<p>By the way, housing isn't guaranteed all 4 years (only freshman and sophomores). It is my understanding that few if any get off the waitlist their junior and senior years. Also off campus housing isn't cheap in the Boston area.</p>
<p>My experience has been different, DocT.</p>
<p>Juniors mostly live off-campus, but this year, the housing lottery was a huge mess and somehow TONS of juniors that should never have gotten housing got really nice on-campus singles. Not sure what happened there, but there you have it.</p>
<p>Some off-campus apartments cost less than room and board, for the record. If you illegally fit in an extra person, costs go down significantly. Some off campus apartments are even closer to your classes than the dorms are. There are tons of houses surrounding Tufts that are kept by landlords specifically to rent out to college students. A little bit farther from campus and you'll find that prices go down dramatically. Rent can be something from 450/month and up to 800, if the house is REALLY nice. I think the average that people pay is between 600 and 650 though. If you start looking early you can end up with a great deal.</p>
<p>I dunno if you guys current or incoming knew or not.. but the reason for the housing mess was that tufts wrongly predicted the attendance ratio.. as you can probably imagine.. every university has to accept far more than it can take in just because a ton of kids turn down the acceptance to go elsewhere.. tufts has had troubles with accurately predicting this number though due to a unexpected spike in popularity.. thus.. there are size discrepancies in the number of students in each class.. the rumor on the street.. which im fairly sure of.. is that since sophomore housing is guaranteed but there is a shortage of house.. students will be staying at a local hotel and tufts will be providing shuttles / complimentary services like laundry etc etc to those students.. pro? A hotel is probably much nicer than dorms / the amenities are nice.. con.. it’s a hotel.. hotel rules / who the hell wants to live away from campus and have to commute.. it’s a major hassle.. no wonder tufts is throwing in so many gimmicks</p>
<p>My daughter will be a junior in the fall. She did not get a dorm room on campus for next year. We were told by ResLife that there were at least 20 sophomores that did not get rooms on campus. We ended up finding a 2 bedroom apartment on Powderhouse which is a 5 minute walk from campus. It's going to cost $800/mo. plus utilities. She probably could have gotten something cheaper if she had looked earlier. I think the average is around $600-700/mo per bedroom. I think the cost for a dorm room is around $550/mo. So living off campus is significantly more expensive. When I went to Tufts, 30 years ago, it was definitely cheaper to live off campus. Now she just has to find a roommate......</p>
<p>Juniors are never guaranteed housing though. your daughter should have known that and started looking earlier for a cheaper place. That being said, it's a good thing she won't be homeless in the fall ;)</p>
<p>whoa, i heard nothing about the hotel. but i think you're a little confused about the acceptance ratio. the class of 2009 - the rising juniors - is way too big. The class of 2010, which is guaranteed housing this year, is regular-size. I think the class of 2011 is going to be big too, if I'm not mistaken. Therefore your logic about the housing shortage shouldn't explain why a bunch of juniors with ****-poor lottery numbers got housing on campus. Juniors KNOW that their chances at housing are slim if their numbers are low, and most of them accept that and get off-campus apartments. If the current junior class is so huge, that should mean nothing to ResLife, b/c the juniors should just get off-campus housing, and let the regular-sized sophomore class live in the dorms. It made sense for THIS year to have a housing shortage, because the huge class of 2009 was guaranteed housing and needed a place to live. (Our freshman year was similar, and we had a bunch of forced triples, in fact.) But NEXT year should have been like ResLife's lucky day, because a whole crapload of people are suddenly not their problem anymore, since they're not guaranteed.</p>
<p>Maybe what happened is that ResLife decided that since the class of 2009 was bigger than others, that they should increase the PROPORTION of juniors that get on-campus housing.</p>
<p>But that still doesn't excuse the idiotic ideas of turning Stratton into senior singles or forgetting that Haskell would be a freshman dorm and not compensating in the other dorms.</p>
<p>^Yeah, they sent out an e-mail asking like 20 of us sophomores in Carmichael, South, etc. doubles to consider living in the Hyatt in Medford where Rt. 16 meets I-93 for a semester. They'd give us like free laundry, some free meals (or something like that, I don't think it was a whole meal plan), plus swanky hotel rooms, free parking on and off campus, and Joey service. But it's across town and a huge hassle, esp. when it gets snowy. I declined it. </p>
<p>I agree Reslife screwed up embarrassingly. I understand that we overenrolled, but how could they be off by that much? And then the way they handled it, going a few people at a time, splitting people from their roommates, asking people with rooms to ditch their roommates, etc was just ridiculous.</p>
<p>Dude, I really really felt for the freshmen this year, because by comparison our housing lottery was smoother than butter. I was horrified by the notion that a sophomore with a high lottery number, who expected a single, showed up to the lottery and was told, Go find a roommate. Especially because we knew some people who were sort of socially awkward enough that finding a roommate would have been a really difficult and painful process. We were glad that there was such a thing as "the single in Hodgdon," which is where a lot of such people end up. Now there were no sophomore singles and that wasn't an option.</p>
<p>That's so WEIRD that they're opting to do hotel dorms! Like...the obvious solution is...KICK OUT THE JUNIORS WITH CRAPPY LOTTERY NUMBERS WHO WERE NEVER GUARANTEED HOUSING! I sincerely hope they end up doing that. And then I'll get two subletters in the spring that I like, lol.</p>
<p>I remember when my group thought we were in a housing mess. We had 7 people and mediocre combined numbers. People were threatening to stab each other in the back and go take their high lottery number and live in Miller or something. Finally we found an eighth person, and by some MIRACLE all got corner rooms in South, very close to each other. This year, you often weren't able to get a room near friends - when I saw that Wren was filled up first, I was baffled until someone told me that suites in Wren were the only way you were guaranteed to live with friends. SO MANY people were on the waitlist...and like, I know two guys who just wanted a double near their friends in South, but instead were given neighboring singles in Lewis?</p>
<p>The hotel thing presents an interesting idea, though. I wonder how many people will give up proximity to campus because the dorms really are "that" bad. I think that if there are a significant number of people who declined nice hotel rooms, it'll prove that the dorms aren't that bad at all, or at least they're not bad enough to give up convenience.</p>
<p>Is the Hyatt the Amerisuites building? If so, it's not that close to campus, and doesn't seem like a very appealing choice for students. </p>
<p>S. is an ingoing freshman, and has heard they might turn some doubles into triples, which doesn't seem that bad depending on the rooms. Also, this may be a stupid question, but if there are so many students who can't get housing, couldn't they turn some singles into doubles?</p>
<p>One would like to have an open mind, but its hard to imagine sending my child to Tufts with so many nuisances - housing, location (Davis Square is not much to write home about) - lots of students spend their time in Cambridge. My child is at Tufts this summer for a research grant and while accepted to Tufts last year, is glad she didn't go there. The stories she hears from current Tufts students doesn't paint a pretty picture.</p>
<p>In what way, DocT (aside from housing)? Am curious-- our son will be attending, and it was his first choice by far.</p>
<p>I had not heard about the housing problem until I read it here. I believe it could be an issue, but not a big one and not one at all for first years. It's not the first time Tufts has offered the hotel option, and some people love maid service.</p>
<p>The other comments baffle me... A lot of people like Davis Square. There are a lot of restaurants and shops that college students would like to frequent. I've been there a couple of times in the past year or so and felt it was doing well. I interview kids from urban backrounds and feel that they would enjoy it.</p>
<p>And of course Tufts students spend time in Cambridge. It's easy to get to by public transport....and even on foot. We often walked to Harvard Square when I was at Tufts. A bit of a hike, but it justified the frozen yoghurt.</p>
<p>Yeah I'm not sure what was with the "Davis is nothing to write home about" comment...Tufts has its own nice suburban campus, but Boston is so accessible that it feels like an extension of that campus. Who cares about Davis? It has some great restaurants like Anna's, but it's not like it oozes nastiness all over Tufts campus or something.</p>
<p>Rooms that are designed to be singles are generally TINY and you'd never be able to fit two people in. What they SHOULD do is just make the Stratton doubles back into doubles.</p>
<p>Davis is absolutely the coolest place in Boston and Tufts is damned lucky to be near it! If you prefer the sprawl of places like Urban Outfitters and other such frightening chain stores, then head to Harvard Sq. or Copley Sq. ... Davis is so great because it's mostly made up of independently owned restaurants and stores, populated by the independent, free-thinking people who prefer that kind of setting!</p>
<p>Perhaps the 45 minute ride on the T to the New England Medical Center in the center of Boston which my child does everyday strikes you as Boston being so accessible - (by the way Tufts bought her a summer pass for the T) Also perhaps the bars with the drunks hanging out in the daytime in Davis Square is an appealing setting for some. Other than a single decent ice cream place and adult oriented restaurants, what else is there???</p>
<p>Also heaven help you if you get off the T at night and call the security guards at Tufts who are suppose to bring you back to the campus. The area is so safe at night that Tufts has security guards picking students up in Davis square to bring them back to the campus.</p>