Part III: Student Opinions of USNWR Top 30 (How are the dorms?)

College Search & Selection
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<p>The following question was asked of students:</p>

<p>Your dorm buildings might be described as:</p>

<li> Palaces! Sparkling, well-maintained temples to a healthy campus lifestyle. Our school totally loves us.</li>
<li> Not too shabby. My friends express their jealousy when they come and visit.</li>
<li> Definitely livable, but nothing special. I’ve certainly seen worse.</li>
<li> A disgrace. The words “hovel” and “rathole” would be accurate.</li>
<li> Actual, all-kidding-aside health hazards. I’d suggest burning them down as an improvement, but the toxic fumes and evil spirits that would rise from the site would probably kill everyone in a five-mile radius.</li>
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<p>The answers for the colleges of the USWNR Top 30 national universities were:</p>

<p>Palaces , Not too shabby! , Nothing special , Hazards , College</p>

<p>54% , 15% , na , na , Caltech
45% , 33% , na , na , Princeton
44% , 38% , na , na , Wash U
43% , 26% , na , na , Yale
33% , 52% , na , na , U Chicago
29% , na , na , 32% , Harvard</p>

<p>na , 72% , 17% , na , Rice
na , 57% , 25% , na , Duke
na , 55% , 19% , na , Vanderbilt
na , 54% , 19% , na , Cornell
na , 54% , 38% , na , Wake Forest
na , 53% , 19% , na , Dartmouth
na , 53% , 39% , na , Emory
na , 53% , 32% , na , Georgetown
na , 46% , 37% , na , U Penn
na , 46% , 35% , na , Notre Dame
na , 44% , 41% , na , Johns Hopkins
na , 40% , 28% , na , Stanford
na , 38% , 46% , na , U Virginia
na , 37% , 33% , na , UCLA
na , 35% , 39% , na , Carnegie Mellon
na , 34% , 34% , na , USC
na , 33% , 26% , na , MIT
na , 32% , 53% , na , Brown
na , 26% , 56% , na , U Michigan
na , 26% , 57% , na , U North Carolina
na , 25% , 65% , na , Columbia
na , 21% , 67% , na , UC Berkeley
na , 20% , 69% , na , Northwestern
na , 13% , 63% , na , Tufts</p>

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<p>Me thinks the Harvard kids major in hyperbole.</p>

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<p>HAHA. Just look at the difference in opinion. The Harvard dorms on the river are spectacular but kinda run down. Ones in the yard are not too shabby, but I can’t say for sure which ones are the good or bad ones. Seems like there is great discrepancy among the student population on views of dorm quality and image.</p>

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<p>1) what hapened tio the 4th category? “a disgrace”?</p>

<p>2)why don’t these percentages add up to 100? Take Harvard: 29+32=61? MIT: 33+26=59?</p>

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<p>Shows you how good the kids with the brass rats are with math.</p>

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<p>I’m surprised Emory’s isn’t as high as I thought it would be… the Clairmont Apartments look like a flippin’ luxurious country club, no joke. But then again, that’s for upperclassmen only. I don’t know how freshman dorms are.</p>

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<p>This marks the second win for Rice of these admittedly skewed surveys.</p>

<p>Yeah Rice!</p>