<p>When I visited Brown for ADOCH I was a little turned off by the state of some of the facilities; i felt like maybe the dorms were a little decrepit, especially the bathrooms. Does this seem to hold true for the uppercalssmen dorms? And does this seem to be an issue at Brown, since it has a relatively small endowment? Or do people get over the somewhat not as nice facilities?</p>
<p>Brown doens't have a small endowment, but one of the biggest in the world, espescially for the small size of its undergraduate and graduate student bodies. Only a few schools have bigger endowments. Whose glorious bathrooms are you comparing us to? </p>
<p>If you are choosing a school based on the dorms or the bathrooms.....</p>
<p>If you think Brown bathrooms are decrepit and you just simply can't live with that... don't go to college.</p>
<p>Brown bathrooms are like any school's bathrooms, if not better.</p>
<p>And the dorms were magnificent compared to other places. At least the dorms FELT like rooms where people can live... as opposed to feeling like classroom closets like most colleges have for dorms.</p>
<p>out of curiosity, mango, where did you stay?</p>
<p>when you've got communal living and lots of people sharing, bathrooms aren't going to be pretty</p>
<p>the honest truth is that very few people pick brown over yale for brown's bathrooms (then again, yale just installed soap dispensers in their dorm bathrooms this year after decades of student requests). </p>
<p>what brown can offer (in addition to what brown students believe is the ultimate curriculum)--at least from a facilities point of view, is lots of high quality undergrad teaching, research, and performance space that rivals any other top school in the world.</p>