<p>Hey- I hear the dorms are nice, but I'm wondering about specifics. I visited the website, but couldn't find any pictures/descriptions of the dorm rooms. I'm planning to go to Dimensions, but in the mean time- can anyone tell me what the dorms at Dartmouth are like in terms of size/quality/AC/amount of singles? Also, are they single sex by room or floor? Are bathrooms co-ed? Sorry if this is on the website and I'm just too inept to find it...Thanks.</p>
<p>Some mixed-class housing is divided by gender by floor, but I think both the river and the Choates have mixed floors, but always separate bathrooms. I live in the River, and the rooms are all signles, 2-room doubles, and 3-room doubles. It's very nice, because while you can have a roommate, you still get your own space. I'm not too familiar with the layout of the Choates.</p>
<p>The Choates ---> four buildings: Brown, Little, Cohen, and Bissell. Brown and Little are connected through a common lounge, and so are Bissell and Cohen. Co-ed floors but single-sex bathrooms. Singles and one-room doubles, and it was renovated a couple years ago so they're pretty nice.</p>
<p>residential communities:</p>
<p>Tuck Mall and Mclaughlin are scheduled to open this fall</p>
<p>Thanks for the info, guys. Another question- I know that housing isn't guaranteed after the first year. Does anyone know of anyone for whom this has become a major problem, or does pretty much everyone who wants on-campus housing get it?</p>
<p>They're opening two new residential clusters this fall, and housing will be guaranteed even after freshmen year.</p>
<p>That's good to know, I'd heard a couple stories about sophomores who lost out in the housing draw and ended up dormless.</p>
<p>Housing is guaranteed freshman and sophmore year for all students. Seniors get first pick in the housing draw followed by juniors (they also have more options and some choose to live off campus) with the addition of the 2 new dorms it will definitely alleviate the housing crunch.</p>
<p>One of D's roommates was "homeless' at the end of housing draw last may, but by the time school started in september, she had a room. Winter term as more rooms became available (remember students take leave terms), she was able to change rooms.</p>
<p>Sybbie,
I know your D had a double bedroom in EW as a 1st year. Do you remember if she said she wanted a roomate? Any thoughts on how likely you are to get a single bedroom in EW?</p>
<p>D requested a roommate and lived in a 2 bedroom quad in Morton in EW (2 double bedrooms, a common room an a bath). </p>
<p>When you fill out the housing request form, you simply state if you want a single or if you want a roommate.</p>
<p>Most of the people she knows who requested singles freshman year in EW did get singles. There are many different configurations for singles; from a single room with a connecting bath which you share with the person in the single on the other side, to a 5 room quad, which is 4 single bedrooms, a common room and a bath.</p>
<p>When she became a UGA this year (and getting a single) one of the things she missed was having a roommate, they are still really good friends. Over sophmore summer, she will be living in her sorority's house. She says she loves her friends and is looking forward to living with them, but she is living in a single (only because she spends so much time with them already).</p>
<p>My S too was "dormless" at the end of freshman year, but ended up with a great single room in Woodward by the time school started.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info. MY D thinks EW sounds wonderful, but is taking other people's misgivings under consideration.</p>
<p>1ofeach,</p>
<p>You know from your own experience that you have no control over who lives on your floor. A lot of things come down to the dynamics on the floor which is really going to be a luck of the draw. </p>
<p>People's conceptions about EW can be said about pretty much any dorm at any college in the country depending on the dymanics of the people living on the floor. John Pfister, the cluster dean is amazing and is really assessible to the students. Even though she no longer lives there if she has a major question about something, he is still the first person she contacts.</p>
<p>My D had a great time living in EW because she though it was the best of both worlds; she had a nice room, came back to some quiet space but also had a very full life outside of EW. Her floor was a really cohesive one and they had a great time together. Many of her EW friends still live in EW, and are having a great time.</p>
<p>What exactly is the deal with East Wheelock?</p>
<p>Sybbie, you're so right. She really likes the community emphasis of EW and like you say, in any one year, a certain floor of ANY dorm could be more or less social depending on luck of the draw. I'll encourage her to just pick what she thinks sounds right for her, then jump with fingers crossed. I'm sure it will all be great. She's the type of kid who finds the good in everything. Wherever she is will be "the best."</p>
<p>Beyond (1) East Wheelock and (2) the River/Choates, housing at Dartmouth is pretty much level. The most competition comes for the very conveniently-placed dorms (i.e. Mass Row) and the senior apartments. Beyond that, the dorms have remarkable consistency in terms of room size, upkeep, asthetics, room setups, etc.</p>
<p>East Wheelock tends to have more singles, bigger rooms, and more private bathrooms, built in 1987 as opposed to the others that were built in the '40s and earlier. The new dorm clusters (Tuck Mall and McLaughlin) are modeled after McCulloch in East Wheelock.</p>
<p>what is the size of the room: single, double(meter square). Are there coeds?</p>
<p>residential communities</p>
<p>you can click on the various dorms and look at their floor plans.</p>
<p>Dorms may be cood-ed by floor and single sex by room</p>
<p>In the past housing was not guaranteed for sophomores. Seniors and Juniors got housing by virtue of their better room draw numbers and the sophomores with bad numbers had a problem.Because of the new housing they are now guaranteeing housing for all sophomores for next year. The effect of which is that anyone who wants to live on campus in any year will be able to do so. And they are doing this at the same time that they are eliminating one of the River buildings, closing Hitchock for renovations, and getting rid of what were known as the tree houses, which were considered the worst housing for sophomores. So not only will everyone get housing, it should all be reasonably desirable housing. The new buildings are beautiful and will house mostly, but not only, freshmen. I think they provide an extra 500 beds (although the net effect is less with the elimination of other housing). I believe the suites and singles in the new housing are in room draw, and the two room doubles are for freshmen. It remains to be seen how the new buildings will affect how the rooms are chosen in room draw.</p>
<p>I found this list of dorm reviews on the Dartmouth student government site:</p>