<p>What is the ratio as far as singles and doubles for freshmen? </p>
<p>Is there some type of raffle (Like at some schools) within each residential college to decide who gets the choice dorms?</p>
<p>For us poor folks, will we have any opportunity to get choice dorms period?</p>
<p>Current Yalies: Are there certain residential colleges or dorms that have a bad reputation? Which ones have the least attractive living space? </p>
<p>Please educate me on the subject</p>
<p>Well freshmen year, the quality of dorms is fairly even within whatever residential college you are assigned to. Aside from TD and Silliman (where you will be assigned to fairly small quads with a common room and two small double bedrooms), you live with the rest of the freshmen in your residential college in a dorm on Old Campus. The dorms (with the residential college it is affiliated with) where you have a fairly good chance of getting a single within a suite are Durfee (Morse), Farnam (JE), Lawrance (Ezra Stiles), Bingham (Calhoun and Trumbull), and Welch (Davenport). You get fairly nice doubles in Vanderbilt (Berkeley and Branford) and very tiny doubles in Lanman-Wright (Pierson and Saybrook). The best freshman housing is probably in Welch (girls on the fourth floor get two story princess suites) or Durfee. The worst are definitely in Lanman-Wright which is falling apart and has 7 X 11 doubles.</p>
<p>There is no way you can guarantee what sort of dorm you are in unless you are a legacy and can request a particular residential college. I have heard that some people requested singles on their housing form in the more about me space, but I don't know how true that is. After freshman year, you enter rooming draws within your residential college.</p>
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<p>Don't worry! You'll be randomly assinged to a college (unless you're legacy), and once you're there, your financial situation has absolutely nothing to do with your housing. That is, everybody pays the same amount for housing, and everybody in the college has the same chances at getting nice rooms. I know there are some schools where people who pay more get nicer rooms - as long as you're living on campus, that's not the case at Yale.</p>
<p>Freshman year, you have absolutely no input on who you live with/what college you're in/whether you get a single or a double. It's all randomly assigned. After that, however, you enter the room draw for your college, and you (and your chosen suitemates) get to choose suites/rooms in an order based on randomly picked numbers. Then, your chances of getting a single are really only based on your negotiating skills with your suitemates :-P</p>
<p>Yes, there are some colleges that have (slightly) ickier dorms, especially freshman year, but the colleges are being renovated right now, so for upperclassmen housing, a lot of that should be evened out in the near future.</p>