<p>What are the major dorms that most freshman get? is there a link to a thread with the positives and negatives?</p>
<p>A basic rundown of the three housing options that are mostly freshmen:</p>
<p>1) The Quad - Fisher Hassenfeld, Riepe, and Ware College Houses. Mainly traditional doubles with shared bathrooms, the rooms are a pretty standard size, lots of random amenities like libraries/cafes/laundry, arguably the most stunning architecture on campus, considered to be very social, great location near most academic buildings (ish)</p>
<p>2) Hill College House - near the engineering buildings, looks like a prison from the outside (you walk over a drawbridge-type thing to get in!), has its own cafeteria and has an extremely strong, tight community (the two main draws), the rooms are the smallest, I think bathrooms are shared, considered pretty social</p>
<p>3) Kings Court English College House - near the engineering buildings, considered less social than the others I just listed because many of the residents are engineering students and fit an introverted stereotype (supposedly), not as gorgeous at the Quad but I haven’t heard any major complaints about the appearance of the building or the rooms or anything</p>
<p>There is also a residential program in one of the high rises (Harrison, I think) called the Freshman Experience, where you live with the other freshmen in the program and do activities with them I guess to get acclimated to Penn/college in general, but the majority of the high rise itself is not freshmen.</p>
<p>There are several helpful threads about housing in the Penn forum, so click around a little. Penn also has a really helpful brochure and plenty of videos about each college house.</p>