<p>which ivy or top university has the best dorm accommodations</p>
<p>Harvard has the best dorms out of the ivies</p>
<p>Based what I've seen/experienced, Harvard's dorms are okay/above average. They are old dorms btw lol.</p>
<p>can anyone rank the ivys from best dorm accommodations to least</p>
<p>Within a single school, the quality of the dorm rooms varies significantly.</p>
<p>Sort of impossible to rank dorms if you haven't been to all the schools. I love the dorms here at Princeton though.</p>
<p>Not sort of, hallowarts, totally impossible.</p>
<p>Dumb question anyway, really.</p>
<p>I can say this-- Yale had some of the best and worst freshman dorms I've ever seen. And by worst, I mean infested with roaches, dirty, falling a part, and by best I mean exceeding any expectations one can have for Ivies who tend to have very old buildings.</p>
<p>Brown's freshman housing did not always get as good as Yale's, but it never got NEARLY as bad.</p>
<p>Really? A school with the endowment Yale has, and they have roaches in their dorm rooms.</p>
<p>-Princeton's new Whitman cluster is pretty impressive</p>
<p>-Dartmouth's new McLaughlin and Mclane (?) dorms are called the hotel/the Ritz</p>
<p>-Yale has some really charming older dorms that are nicely renovated</p>
<p>-Penn has some super delux, nearby new off campus options</p>
<p>I'd actually say Harvard's are among the worst. In general the ivies are not known for the best dorms, that honor goes to more middle of the road privates that compete for students through amenities.</p>
<p>Some have had negative things to say about Whitman and I know when Dartmouth embarked on building new dorms they made a conscious decision not to take them too upscale.</p>
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<p>I go to Dartmouth and I've never heard the dorms called this. They are very nice, though I honestly prefer the older ones. Hitchcock lost a lot of it's character when it was re-done, even if the rooms are nicer. I kind of worry New Hamp is getting the same treatment. There was an article in the D saying they couldn't put all the wood panelling back because of new fire codes.</p>
<p>I lived in a sweet three-room double my freshman year, but it was sort of far away from everything. My sophomore and junior year I lived in the Gold Coast (great location, small-ish but nice rooms) and Topliff (big room, but I only had one east-facing window, so my room would be dark by like 2 pm). This year I am living in my sorority house and it's amazing.</p>