<p>Do you know of a college/university with dorm rooms that have their own bathrooms, all you can eat dining plan, and free laundry? Thanks for your help.</p>
<p>Now that’s the way to pick a college! All you can eat, baby, sign me up! </p>
<p>What was I thinking back in the day!?? How did kids today get so smart?</p>
<p>Oregon State has free laundry and dining is awesome, they have foods like Shepard pie, quiche, spicy salmon roll, lobster bisque but apparently is not all you can eat. 
But I do live in a dorm that has a semi-private bathroom because you share it with your neighbors. But in my experience it feels like its you get your own bathroom</p>
<p>At Davidson College, not only is laundry free (included in tuition) but they’ll also do it for you:
[Davidson</a> College - Laundry Services](<a href=“http://www3.davidson.edu/cms/x28180.xml]Davidson”>http://www3.davidson.edu/cms/x28180.xml)</p>
<p>Meals are all you can eat:
[Auxiliary</a> Services, dining services,Vail commons](<a href=“http://www3.davidson.edu/cms/x7825.xml]Auxiliary”>http://www3.davidson.edu/cms/x7825.xml)</p>
<p>Bathrooms are not private, unless you’re in suite or apartment style housing.</p>
<p>I heard McGill was putting some students up in hotels, so I guess the bathroom would be private to the occupants of the room.</p>
<p>Do you mean a private bathroom that only YOU use? Or do you mean an en suite bathroom where you share with one other person?</p>
<p>What’s with the free laundry? Are you really going to eliminate a school because you might have to spend a few bucks a week on the machines??? That doesn’t seem like a legit reason to dismiss a college. After all, a college with free laundry might have some other cost that makes it more expensive.</p>
<p>what is your budget for college? If money is tight, then you may not be able to afford what you want.</p>
<p>Constant access to dining without some sort of point or swiping system is unusual actually. Middlebury has it and it is supposedly important not only for students who like to eat…the dining hall is an important social place and students enjoy the opportunity to go back in with friends just to have another coffee or dessert. (Also there are suites that have their own bathrooms…I think you need quarters for the laundry)</p>
<p>High Point?</p>
<p>Sounds like you have just described living at home!</p>
<p>Lol Rockvillemom! Can’t believe some schools have free laundry! Not sure what you mean by “all you can eat dining plan?” All the schools we visited have buffets where you can eat however much you want. But, you have to show your card when you enter at each meal; I’ve never seen a place where you can just walk in and out all day long if that’s what you’re suggesting. </p>
<p>All dorms at NYU have private bathrooms because they were originally apartments or hotels.</p>
<p>^IIRC from my visit 1.5 years ago, Middlebury does allow you to walk in and out of the dining halls all day. Which is cool, but does seem an odd criteria for selecting a school.</p>
<p>^ “An army marches on its stomach”, you know.</p>
<p>This kid understands his own needs. He will go far.</p>
<p>I’m still not sure if the student is just wanting to avoid “community” bathrooms where the entire floor shares a huge bathroom. I don’t know if having an en suite bathroom that you share with 1-3 people is ok.</p>
<p>As for the all you can eat…not sure what he means there either. Many schools have meals plans where you swipe and you can eat as much as you want for that meal. Some schools have a pricey meal plan option that lets you swipe as many times a day as you want (and therefore eat as much and as often as you like). Other schools have plans where the deduction is by what you’ve selected.</p>
<p>I can tell you this…My son had an “all you can eat” plan his first year in college. By about the 2nd month, he and friends were frequently eating off campus - especially on weekends. The all you can eat plan was a waste of money. He easily could have had the plan that was the next level down and still have plenty of meals left.</p>
<p>So, that’s what they’re called! … Community bathrooms, is what I’m trying to avoid. There’s nothing wrong with sharing a bathroom with roommates, though.</p>
<p>Sorry for the confusion, by all you can eat, I did simply mean buffet style, where students may go back for seconds, until they leave the dining hall.</p>
<p>My reasoning for the laundry purely has to do with convenience. My mother is always telling me to do laundry, which I never do, until I am down to my last already worn article of clothing, so I really believe that I would put off doing the laundry even longer and try to stretch out the uses in my clothing even further once I got to college, if I had to go to the ATM to get change. Yes, this is trivial and was never a disqualifier, simply a pro :]. </p>
<p>We’ve worked and saved well enough over the years, so thankfully, tuition cost isn’t a factor in my case. And woah, tuition that includes someone doing laundry for you… I will definitely check out Davidson and all of your recommendations. Thank you so much for your input guys! They definitely brought awareness to colleges I hadn’t heard of.</p>
<p>Wheaton (MA) allows you to walk in & out of the dining hall all day long, you aren’t “Married” to breakfast, lunch & dinner hours. </p>
<p>St. Lawrence (NY) No quarters etc. laundry is included.</p>
<p>FYI…</p>
<p>many schools laundry rooms do not require “real money” in hand. You just swipe your school smart card and the money is deducted from your acct.</p>
<p>Some kids just need to stay at home and be pampered I guess.</p>
<p>and some schools even have a laundry management system where you can check the status of your wash online!</p>
<p>Managing laundry is just a fact of life with little resolution. I of course did my own laundry at school, but always brought a full suitcase of dirty clothes home every vacation for my mom to wash! And, even as an adult, there are times when my hamper is brimming and the drawers are near empty!</p>
<p>Daughter’s school has the feature to check to see if your wash is finished online.
She says she doesn’t bother!</p>
<p>Just for anyone who’s interested, I also found out that UPenn and Northeastern University have shared suites for first year students and the buffet style dining, too, so I will also look into those. They are on the larger side though, UPenn with 10,000 some undergrads and Northeastern with 15,000 some undergrads, so they’re not at the top of my list. I couldn’t find any info regarding laundry for either, but with the convenient smartcard mentioned earlier, I don’t see how my laundry habits could change or get worse with any of the schools mentioned in here.</p>
<p>Haha, thanks for sharing your funny laundry stories/remarks.</p>