<p>I'm lucky enough to be a double-legacy at Yale, and can choose either college to reside in. I'd love it if current students/alums of the school could tell me which they would choose, though I know virtually everyone is happy where they end up!</p>
<p>Less than 50 kids a year request a residential college transfer and that is almost always to live with closer friends outside their college. JE used to have extraordinary resources to spend on its students compared with some other colleges but the council of masters has equalized the budgets recently. If you can go to BDD, just explore each and choose - unless you love one parent more than the other :).</p>
<p>I don’t mean to hijack your thread, but if I understand correctly, if you have a legacy, you get to choose to go to the same college as your parent?
What if your parent went to grad school?</p>
<p>RCs are just for undergrad students, so a parent who went to one of Yale’s grad schools would have no RC affiliation.</p>
<p>And I assume that, in that case, you wouldn’t be able to handpick your college?</p>
<p>Correct assumption.</p>
<p>If you have a legacy or currently a sibling in a certain college, you can also ask to NOT be in that college (or to be in it).</p>
<p>I’m a JE alum. What we had was the McClellan Hall annex with some very nice suites for upperclassmen. Very close to the college and Old Campus was our playground. It seemed a lot of us dated freshmen too! LOL</p>
<p>I wasn’t in either, but I’d choose Dport because I prefer its Georgian architecture. JE was renovated more recently, so that’s a point in favor of JE. Dport’s annex housing connects directly to Dport while JE’s does not–something to consider since both colleges tend to annex.</p>
<p>JE is obviously better. But I may be biased, having been in JE.</p>
<p>Seriously, my advice is to evaluate which of your parents has more emotionally invested in you choosing his or her college, and choose that one. They’re all great.</p>
<p>Hunt has identified the only thing that could possibly be at stake in choosing which residential college to request. His method could also just as easily lead you to make the “anything else” choice, too.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, I like JE’s understated Neo-Gothic more than D-port’s nutty Gothic-Georgian mash-up, but the latter is a lot more memorable.</p>
<p>DAVENPORT DAVENPORT DAVENPORT</p>
<p>Coming back home to the warm bricks of Davenport feels like re-entering the real world after spending a long day surrounded by stone.</p>
<p>Davenport juniors don’t get really get annexed. JE junior annex housing sucks.</p>
<p>Davenport’s dining hall is much better (they say there’s no difference, but trust me, after three years you will start to notice the differences).</p>
<p>Davenport’s dining hall is excellent. JE has a perpetual lack of spoons. And the davenport basement is just as good, if not better, than JE’s. On the other hand, JE has a nicer library, and is more centrally located. I’m not sure about the difference between Farnam and Welch - Welch supposedly has lots of singles, but Farnam seems a little nicer, and has laundry in the basement.</p>
<p>Dport has a printing press, don’t know if JE does or not.</p>
<p>JE has a great printing press. And JE’s annex housing in McClellan is suh weet – dunno what lookbeyond is talking about. The apex is the 4th (and 5th) floor Octet which has two living rooms, two baths, two fireplaces, six singles and a double on two levels and skylights. It was simply amazing.</p>
<p>See, no matter where you end up, it will be the best college and the students of that college will make sure you know it. ;)</p>
<p>They both suck. You should request to opt out of both of them and maybe you will be lucky enough to get into Calhoun. :)</p>
<p>Wow. Just looked up Davenport. It looks more like Pforzheimer at Harvard than most of Yale! Didn’t know Red-brick Georgian existed in New Haven. My impression was that most of it is neo-Gothic…</p>
<p>My son lives in McClellan this year and likes it a lot. The only downside is that you have to go outdoors to get to JE, but it’s very nearby.</p>
<p>well if you like bricks you should opt out of both and hope for Timothy Dwight. AND you can (usually) live there ALL FOUR YEARS.</p>
<p>But Morse has the BEST dining hall. 
It was so popular they had to limit when other colleges could use it.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/sep/12/morse-and-stiles-limit-dinner-transfers/[/url]”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/sep/12/morse-and-stiles-limit-dinner-transfers/</a></p>