<p>Volteface, the people have a lot to do with the dorm. It sounds as if you would really like BJ, perhaps. Shoreland is definitely the most social dorm.</p>
<p>Volteface, I think you should choose UChicago over Berkeley. Both are wonderful schools, but UCBerekeley is much bigger than UChicago (as I'm sure you know) and the undergrads get considerably less attention than those at UChicago do. My parents went to Berekely for their graduate studies, and they said that the undergrads there got very little attention.</p>
<p>Corranged,</p>
<pre><code> How are the dorms at Broadview, in terms of social life? I liked the dorm tour ,but one guide said that it wasn't very popular...I was thinking that that was because of its relative quietness.
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<p>It's quiet and close-knit. I'm friends with two people from Broadview, and neither are quiet. (But then again, few of my friends are quiet.) It's not very popular, I'm guessing, because it's a smaller dorm farther from campus than most dorms. It also attracts students who want singles and private bathrooms, and those students tend to be less social than students who live with roommates. What are you looking for in a dorm, and what is your personality like? I can try to tell you dorms that attract similar students, if you want.</p>
<p>Yes, the term "social life" is relative.
And to me, having a "life" does not mean "getting drunk on a frat party" or " having an open sex" or even "puking across the floor."
To me, the stuff that people do outside of school (i.e. kayaking, fishing, or whatever)......stuff that does not involve school is lacking.
Yes there might be people that do this activity and that activity. But i felt that there wasn't quite a "balance" in their life (and to some people this is perfectly fine)
Yes, people go to university to study (duh...) But going to college is only a part of your experience...your life as a young adult. </p>
<p>People (like votleface said) is definitely interesting & sociable (I,too, dormed in shoreland). It's definitely a tight-knit community. But their lives are just overwhelmed with the academics making their lives a bit unbalanced. </p>
<p>Also, i missed the cultural diversity that UCLA or Berkeley has. The samba in the street, the acapella choir performing, and the ever so captivating spoken word performances. There might be more percentages of minorities in U of Chicago....but what i like about the schools here is that every culture shines.</p>