<p>Which colleges have the nicest dorms? Usually the LACs are up there. George Washington also has amazing dorms.</p>
<p>For urban campuses, NYU and Northeastern go above and beyond.</p>
<p>Almost all of the top 50 LACs have excellent dorms</p>
<p>The list goes on, my favorite dorms are at Emory.</p>
<p>GW has very nice dorms, especially for upperclassmen. The only dorm that isn't very nice at GW is Thurston and Crawford, in my opinion. However, Thurston is located 4 blocks from the White House and has an incredible location. Hall on Virginia Avenue, another freshman dorm at GW, is an old Howard Johnson that the university bought out. The bathrooms have marble floors and there's a chandelier in the lobby of the dorm. It's pretty nice being directly across the street from the watergate. GW also has a maid service, which can be really convenient since no one likes cleaning their own bathrooms.</p>
<p>The womens colleges have beautiful dorms-- Bryn Mawr, Smith...</p>
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<li><p>Cornell (best food too)</p></li>
<li><p>Everything else</p></li>
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<p>Washington University</p>
<p>I agree that Wash U has great dorms (the rooms i stayed in were humungous). SMU has crappy regular dorms.</p>
<p>I'll second (third?) GW having great dorms. I lived at FSK Hall the summer after my freshman year when I was interning in DC -- my MIT roommate and I were shocked to get there and discover that we had air conditioning, a private bathroom, closet space, and cable TV.</p>
<p>pomona = big.
some of the claremont mckenna ones were HUGE too</p>
<p>Northeastern freshman dorms are pretty bad, the rest are top notch from what I hear. Apartment style residences tend to be nice.</p>
<p>They're not that bad, not that bad at all, I've been in about a dozen worse in the Boston area.</p>
<p>My overall impression is that the better the college, the worse the dorms. Colleges that seem to have to try harder have great dorms. Ivies have a lot of old, non renovated ones.</p>
<p>That's interesting, I found Princeton, Cornell, an Stanford's dorms fine.</p>
<p>S at Williams had a great dorm freshman year, other S went to Harvard and had a room the size of a small closet all 4 years and the bathrooms were really old and not very nice. I thought the dorms at Amherst were nice when we visited there...although i know a lot of them have been torn down and are being replaced.</p>
<p>GWU better have nice dorms for 50k a year, and there is no way that nice dorms are worth 50k a year.</p>
<p>I would have thought the houses at Smith were the nicest I'd ever seen...and then I saw Scripps! Princeton, Cornell, Amherst, Williams, Stanford aren't even in the same ballpark. Imagine a Hilton Hotel of the 1920s, with huge rooms, dark wood paneling and good carpeting, and outdoor balconies with wrought-iron fencing, from which you can pick oranges and kumquats off the trees from the second floor, organized around Renaissance courtyards with fountains and sculptures in the middle.</p>
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They're not that bad, not that bad at all, I've been in about a dozen worse in the Boston area.
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<p>Yeah, perhaps I should have used average (which I consider poor lol). Not to thread hijack :) but if you have been to BU's dorms - how would they stack up? I visited the campus but I did not get an official tour (it was the 3rd college I saw that day)</p>
<p>BU, freshmen dorms, like Warren Towers a.k.a The Zoo, average, I'd take Northeastern's freshmen dorms over them, atleast their up to date, and they have flat screens and projectors, and pretty colors.</p>
<p>These are the nicest dorms in my opinion not in any order.</p>
<p>UC Berkeley
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UC Los Angeles
UC Merced
UC Riverside
UC San Diego
UC San Francisco
UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Cruz</p>
<p>ok, how do you define nice dorms?</p>