<p>Is it the best choice for college? How do the bathroom situations work? Just how safe is that?</p>
<p>bathrooms arent co-ed.</p>
<p>"Safe"? Are you afraid of random sexual reactions or something?</p>
<p>My dorm's bathrooms are (most of them are)! REALLY not a big deal. It's kind of like going into high school and worrying if a bottom locker is safe because the person above you may open his locker and if books fall on your head, you might get a concussion.</p>
<p>Hahaha that was pretty funny Kyledavid80</p>
<p>At a lot of schools the bathrooms on the hall floors are co-ed. Safe? Probably the biggest risk is that if you forget and leave stuff in the shower, it won't be there when you remember. </p>
<p>Is the concern sexual? Communal restrooms in a dorm are accessable by the dozens of students on that floor. It is sort of public and wouldn't lend itself to an easy sexual assault.</p>
<p>If this is a real concern, many colleges have posts of the criminal activity on campus for prior years. I seem to recall that sexual assaults are seperately listed at my son's school. I guess you can check it out.</p>
<p>I think that using a robe and keeping aware of what is going on around you when you shower will provide you with a safe experience.</p>
<p>I'd like to reiterate that bathrooms often are not coed. And if living on a coed floor is upsetting to the OP, she can apply to live on a single sex floor/building.</p>
<p>Your dorm may even be split up by floors. Girls on odd, guys on even, or something like that. That's how mine are.</p>
<p>As far as coed/gender neutral (because remember, most schools don't have coed bathrooms jut for the fun of it) bathrooms go, as far as I could tell at most schools that had them there was either a vote at the beginning of the year so that if anyone was uncomfortable with them, they would make them single sex, or there are single sex bathrooms in addition to coed bathrooms in the dorm (for example, by vote in my dorm there was one single sex and one gender neutral bathroom per floor. That meant that on my floor there was an all-male bathroom, and a gender neutral bathroom, but if you were a girl who really wanted single sex, you could just go up one floor and there it was!). And anyway, they were in no way unsafe, at least at my school — as someone said, they tend to exist in places where lots of people use them, so they are really very public. </p>
<p>And co-ed dorms in general are pretty safe, or at least as safe as anywhere else on a co-ed campus (I'm assuming you're worried about sexual assault type things here?). I mean, dorms are pretty public places where generally there is SOMEONE around — you'd really have to invite someone into your room for anything bad to happen, and you could do that whether your dorm is technically all girls or not.</p>
<p>Safer than single-sex. ;)</p>
<p>please understand that coed dorms have been around for at least 30 years, so safety can't be an issue (or they would've gone back to single sex dorms).</p>
<p>yes, there are guys and girls. You are sure to see things you don't want to see unless you are always blindfolded or somethin.</p>
<p>Its much more fun in some areas, and less so in others. Ur obviously limited in what you can do with girls being there (i myself am a guy of course) since it is not like guys can be rough in the hallway, or do other fun crazy things. But girls are fun, so its a fair trade...not gettting to do some crazy things, and getting girls is a good deal to me.</p>
<p>Rice is entirely co-ed....not the bathrooms though....i haven't had any problems...yet.</p>
<p>I've walked in on my male friends using the urinal in our bathrooms a number of times and it wasn't a big deal. What was a big deal was the competition for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit calendar and the firemen calendar, and which got placed where, lol.</p>
<p>And I guess my case is extreme, so you have nothing to worry about.</p>
<p>Safe? Why wouldn't they be?</p>
<p>Co-ed bathrooms sound amazing.</p>
<p>I lived in a coed dorm with coed bathroom at Berkeley. The dividers go all the way to the floor. Lived there for a year and no problems I can recall. Although, I do remember the parents having some concern when they dropped their kids off...haha.</p>
<p>There are coed bathrooms at Pomona, like someone mentioned earlier, you vote at the beginning of the year on how to allocate your bathrooms, and if someone has a problem with gender neutral, they can anonymously protest, but for the most part, nobody cares.</p>
<p>abnk, you state you are male in your profile. What is so terribly dangerous about coed bathrooms? Are you afraid you're going to be attacked by a group of Amazonian Warrior Women?</p>
<p>UCBChem...I think he was being sarcastic, lol.</p>
<p>I don't see a problem with co-ed bathrooms..I mean..we aren't 5th graders.</p>
<p>I'd love to see what would happen if they installed those at Pensacola. haha</p>