<p>Does anybody know anything about the new dorm on campus? Has anybody seen it? Details please.</p>
<p>If you mean Haskell, the dorm they're turning into a community-service-oriented-freshman dorm, it's definitely not new, they're just using it for different purposes. If you mean Sophia-Gordon, the dorm that just opened last year, it's only for seniors (/upperclassmen), so it doesn't matter to incoming freshmen what it looks like.</p>
<p>Tha being said, Sophia is a beautiful building with big, open, clean rooms.
But yeah, you're not living there until you're a senior and even then only if you get a good number.</p>
<p>My daughter will be a senior. She has been studying abroad her junior year. She is lucky enough to be assigned to Sophia-Gordon with a group of friends, but has an opportunity to live off campus.Just trying to weigh the pros and cons. Since I haven't been to Tufts in over a year, I am not even sure where it's located.</p>
<p>It's next to Stratton, across the street from Adeckman (sp?), and it pretty much stretches back to professors row near arts house and richardson house. A great central location.
I'd take a sophia apartment oven an off-campus apartment personally, but that's just my opinon.</p>
<p>As far as location goes, Sophia is better than off-campus, definitely, since it's right next to Aidekman and very close to the campus center and the library. It's also really nice-looking. Some people prefer living off campus for other reasons, though, so it really comes down to your daughter's preferences I guess.</p>
<p>I know someone who lived in Sophia in one of the handicapped-accessible suites, and it was absolutely enormous. Their common room/kitchen was larger than my double, and the bedrooms were all upstairs.</p>
<p>It's also environmentally friendly! lol.</p>