<p>College of Arts and Sciences .. and Wharton</p>
<p>All of the schools have the same dorms. They're not my favorite part of the school.</p>
<p>Penn not UPENN... pet peeve.</p>
<p>oh ok.. do you have any choices? are they all close to classes? how big? furniture (wood or metal).. etc</p>
<p>looking at website, i really like the W.E.B. Du Bois College house, double 2BR/counter range/refrigerator/own bathroom.... is that hard to get? do u request housing?</p>
<p>oh and where do freshman stay</p>
<p>You would have no trouble getting into DuBois. There's a lottery in may where you put down like 10 top choices.</p>
<p>Most freshmen live in hill (all freshmen), the quad (fisher hassenfeld, riepe, and ware) (mostly freshmen), or other mixed-classes houses ( kings court / english, stouffer, dubois, gregory)</p>
<p>The dorms are actually pretty decent, I would say. Better than Columbia/Cornell/Brown, on par with Harvard, but worse than most of Yale, and significantly worse than Princeton/Dartmouth.</p>
<p>They have AC; well, most of them do.</p>
<p>What's the matter with Brown's dorms?</p>
<p>They were huge when I visited.</p>
<p>Is there something I missed...?</p>
<p>Some of them are just kind of... mangy.</p>
<p>That's fair.</p>
<p>yeah i saw pictures of penns dorms and they looked really nice!
one more question: does it cost more money if you get a 2 room double with bathroom/"kitchen" opposed to a single room double. and what about a single.. are all the different dorm styles different amounts of money?</p>
<p>you would call Princeton's dorms GOOD? omg I stayed there for a week one summer and it was a NIGHTMARE. They were so old, repulsive, and decrepit. Worst experience EVER...I really hope Penn can do better than that!</p>
<p>Heh. I loved my dorm at Princeton for a summer program for all of the reasons you hated it, nj_azn. I don't know if it was just my dorm, but there was a [non-operational] fireplace, some large-ish walkable area, and I had two great views of the campus. </p>
<p>I could just see myself as an side character in "This Side of Paradise" whenever I walked into the room. I thought about how it must have been in the 20's, when the fireplace was surely operational and there must have been a large, cozy chair in front of it. </p>
<p>To each his own, I suppose.</p>
<p>Heh, I suppose I'm hopeless romantic a la Amadeuic/This Side of Paradise. And while it's true that some of the rooms are decrepit as you described, from what I understand the rooms in the new colleges are quite nice.</p>
<p>^yes that much is quite true...I got a chance to see the new ones and they were borderline acceptable</p>
<p>For the person who asked about cost, here's this year's freshmen rent schedule: <a href="http://www.business-services.upenn.edu/housing/frent0809.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.business-services.upenn.edu/housing/frent0809.pdf</a> I was told to expect costs to go up by a couple percent next year.</p>
<p>On the link CDN_dancer has posted, the Quads has been described as (3BR/LR/kit).
Does that BR stand for bathroom or bedroom?</p>
<p>haha bedroom!</p>
<p>there's only one bathroom per highrise unit</p>